Android News
Google Doesn’t Practice What They Preach For Open Source
24th December 2009
Just this week Google’s V.P. of Product Management Jonathan Rosenberg published a memo declaring that Google is an open source company. An insightful article on the Silicon Alley Insider points out how all Google’s talk about opennes is really just “empty posturing”. More »
Confirmed: Google Making Own Phone
11th December 2009
It has finally been confirmed that the rumors floating around about Google making their own phone are true. More »
1 Billion Mobile Internet Users By 2010
4th December 2009
Analysts at IDC have made some predictions about the growth of the mobile Internet, based on usage data currently available. Not surprisingly, mobile Web browsing is big! More »
Taptu Brings Realtime Search To Mobile
16th November 2009
With the growing popularity of realtime search, it was only a matter of time before it became available on the mobile Web. Taptu has managed to beat Google and Microsoft to become the first provider of realtime search on mobile. More »
SmartPhone Market Share April 2009
5th June 2009
A report comparing the respective market share of SmartPhones by operating system, as against the market share of the mobile web and application usage during the month of April 2009 has recently been released by AdMob. More »
Google Launches Barcode Scan On Android
21st May 2009
After the success of Google Product Search for Mobiles, which was recently launched, Google has now launched a barcode scanning service which can be used from the Android mobile handset. More »
Google Unveiling A Social Agenda For Mobile?
18th February 2009
Last week saw Google launch two very social applications for mobile handsets. The first, Latitude, allows users to see where their friends are on a mobile map. The latest release, My Tracks, allows users to share where they have been. More »
Motorola Making Android Social Phone
24th October 2008
Handset manufacturer, Motorola looks set to make their first Android Smart Social phone. They have already appointed about 350 employees to do this. They have also placed ads in various publications to recruit software engineers for their Interactive Design Team. More »
Google Android Phone To Release Shortly
16th September 2008
After the recent successful launch of their web browser, Google Chrome, the search giant is now getting ready to release another long awaited, but not as surprising new product – the new Android mobile phone, by the last quarter of the year. More »
Google Loses Wireless Spectrum Auction To Verizon
26th March 2008
Verizon turned out to be the biggest spender at the recently concluded 700 MHz wireless spectrum auction, out-bidding even Google. They spent an estimated $9.6 billion to buy over a large chunk of the spectrum that was auctioned by the FCC. More »
Yahoo! Plays Catch Up On Social Networks And Mobile
10th January 2008
Google’s done it, Facebook’s done it, even Nokia did it so why wouldn’t Yahoo!? Well, now they have come up with yet another social networking idea, this time dubbed Yahoo! Life! and an improved mobile service. Where has the innovation, the spark of ingenuity that once was Yahoo! gone? More »
Google Now Eyeing The TV Advertising Market
22nd November 2007
TechCrunch reports that Google may intend to create a product for television set-top boxes similar to what it has recently done for mobile phones with Android. More »
Official Google Announcement: Forget GPhone. Hello Android
6th November 2007
2.7 Billion people could potentially use Google’s latest offering next year. It is not the highly speculated GPhone. Instead, Google yesterday announced the Open Handset Alliance and the Android open platform for mobile devices. More »
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