Google Mobile News
Google Announces Nexus One
5th January 2010
Google has confirmed the launch of the Nexus One mobile phone at a press event held at their Mountain View headquarters on 5 January 2010. The phone will be available to buy and use immediately, direct from their website. 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 »
Best Buy Installing Google Mobile App
12th November 2009
Google has managed to convince one of the largest electronics retailers in the USA to promote their mobile search application. Best Buy Mobile representatives will now offer their customers the option to get the Google Mobile App installed for free on smartphones that are bought in their retail outlets. More »
Google Launches Go Mobile! Site
6th November 2009
Google AdWords recently launched a new resource to help marketers reach mobile Internet audiences more easily. This service is called Go Mobile! More »
Google Shares Mobile Search Volumes For The First Time
24th September 2009
Google’s new keyword tool, currently in beta has a lot of good new features – integration with other tools, filtering options and categorisation – but the best feature is almost un-noticeable: The ability to see stats for mobile searches. More »
Google Annihilates Microsoft, Yahoo! In Mobile
8th July 2009
If Global Stats from StatCounter are to be believed, Microsoft and Yahoo! might as well pack their bags and say goodbye to mobile search, because Google reportedly owns 97% of the market. 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 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 »
Google Latitude Ushers New Era In Mobile Social Activity
6th February 2009
Google Latitude, the latest service from the UK’s favourite brand, was launched this week. Users can find out where their friends and contacts are and can send and receive status messages via their mobile handsets. More »
Google Leads The Way For Mobile Search
13th October 2008
Figures released by comScore have revealed that mobile search has grown in leaps and bounds over the last year. Google, expectedly, is the leader in mobile search services and has more than 60% market share in all the countries where the survey was conducted. More »
Google Establishes Mobile Search Market Leadership
18th June 2008
Nielsen Mobile has just confirmed that Google leads the U.S. mobile search market with a 61 percent share of the market. More »
Directions For Public Transportation Through Mobiles
12th June 2008
In the past users have surely benefited, from the inclusion of directions for public transportation on Google Maps, as it makes it easier for them to travel from place to place, by buses and trains, without the risk of getting lost by getting onto the wrong bus or train. People can also save on the expensive fuel required to use their own cars, and indirectly also reduce traffic jams. More »
Microsoft Enhances Mobile Advertising Offering
29th May 2008
Microsoft is enhancing its mobile advertising platform at long last. An announcement to this effect was made last week, at the online advertising leadership forum, advance08. More »
Google Offers Banner Advertising On Mobile
28th April 2008
Google has just announced some progress on the mobile ad front. They have started displaying banner ads on mobiles. Advertisers who use Google’s AdWords service will be able to choose between displaying plain text or banner ads to mobile Internet users. More »
Breaking Barriers To Mobile Advertising
16th April 2008
While it has been widely predicted that mobile advertising is set to become big business, there is still a long way to go. Advertisers would be smart to start learning some lessons from other forms of digital media, and start testing their service offerings on consumers who already use advanced mobile handsets. 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 »
Mobile Advertising Spreads Its Wings In The USA
12th March 2008
A bi-annual report from Nielsen Mobile found that 58 million, that is about 23%, of all U.S. mobile phones users have viewed mobile advertising in the last 1 month. Of these, 28 million subscribers say they responded to the ad in one way or another. More »
Yahoo! Announces Mobile Bookmarking Service onePlace
7th March 2008
Smart mobile applications seem to be rolling out every fortnight from Yahoo! This week they announced the launch of Yahoo! onePlace, a mobile smart bookmarking service that will allow users to conveniently organize all sorts of content in one place and keep it automatically updated. More »
Google Goes Mobile In Africa
20th February 2008
South Africa will host the FIFA World Cup in 2010, for which large numbers of people are expected to visit the country. Naturally there will be a great demand for information from these visitors before undertaking the trip. Keeping this in mind search giant Google has decided to concentrate on providing better search technology through mobile phones in South Africa. More »
Attacking Google Mobile’s Achilles’ Heel – Analytics
8th February 2008
A recent news bite on AccuraCast Search Daily News highlighted the fact that Google AdWords does not provide reliable conversion tracking on mobile ad campaigns. In the wake of this announcement, a number of alternative solution providers, including the likes of Bango, have announced alternative products that supplement Google’s shortcomings in this area. More »
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