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- Dell Prepping Google Android Phone For AT&T
- In case AT&T (NYSE: T) loses its contract for Apple’s iPhone next year, the telco could have a ready back-up, as Dell is making a smartphone for the company’s cellular network, the WSJ reported, citing unidentified sources. Dell’s smartphone would be based on Google’s Android software. The particular...
- External links 2009-10-07
- Apple iPhone vs. Google Android: Machine vs. Platform
- The handset market is seeing a battle of device versus platform. And history suggests that the natural winner will be platform, much to the pleasure of Google and eventual dismay of Apple. by Erik Sherman
- Blog posts 2009-11-10
- Microsoft, Apple, Others Smack Themselves with Sunk Costs, Bad Decisions
- Just as it killed off its Money product this last summer, Microsoft is now putting the axe to Office Accounting. It only took, what, four years for this to happen? That's certainly better than the decade for Money. But it's far better than some decisions to keep marching because of...
- Blog posts 2009-11-02
- Turn Your Windows Mobile Phone Into a Business Card Scanner
- DYMO's CardScan software not only captures an image of each card, but also transcribes the information into your address book. How handy is that! by Rick Broida
- Blog posts 2009-10-29
- Microsoft Mobile Strategy In Danger
- Microsoft's Sidekick via Danger disaster foretells the end of Windows Mobile and the company's presence in the mobile market. by Michael Hickins
- Blog posts 2009-10-12
- Google, Verizon Make Strange Bedfellows
- Verizon Wireless said it will introduce two smartphones this year running Google's Android operating system, a remarkable development between two companies with a history of deep mutual antagonism. by Michael Hickins
- Blog posts 2009-10-06
- Can Verizon Help Google? Maybe Yes, Maybe No
- Verizon Wireless has announced that it plans to back Google's Android phones in a big way. It sees Android as being an answer to AT&T's continued U.S. lock on Apple's iPhone, and Google must be over the moon about the deal. However, that's opportunity. Making something of it will be...
- Blog posts 2009-10-06
- Microsoft Admits It's Behind Mobile 8-Ball
- In case anyone hadn't yet guessed it, Microsoft is having a bad day in the mobile OS. Better make that a bad few years. Bloggers attending the company's Venture Capital Summit reported Steve Ballmer saying that the company had "screwed up with Windows Mobile", with Ballmer wishing that Microsoft could...
- Blog posts 2009-09-28
- Google Mobile for Windows Mobile Now Location-Aware
- As we all know from watching decades of sci-fi movies, once computers become sentient, it's all over for humanity. Step one of that process (I'm guessing) is location-awareness, meaning the computer knows where it is. So think long and hard before installing the newly updated Google Mobile...
- Blog posts 2009-09-24
- Can Apple Lose The App Race?
- The iPhone App Store is so full that it's frustrating developers who want to make a name for themselves. Google's Android Market is more fertile, but technical issues create barriers of a different sort. by Michael Hickins
- Blog posts 2009-09-08
- Android, Not Apple, Is The Big China Deal
- Apple's deal to provide China Unicom with iPhone handsets is the headline, but Google's Android deal with HTC may prove bigger in the long run. by Michael Hickins
- Blog posts 2009-08-28
- Android Boosted By 'Blind Dogma' [Updated*]
- Mobile application developers are expressing frustration and disappointment in Google's Android operating system, although those feelings are tempered with the hope that Android will improve as it matures. That's a tough environment for Google to expand significantly into the mobile operating system space, particularly in the face...
- Blog posts 2009-08-25
- Nokia And Microsoft... But How About Android?
- Putting together the Microsoft-Nokia alliance announced last week with Gartner's new figures on the smartphone market, and you would think the entire device world revolves around Nokia's focus on keeping runner-up Research in Motion at bay. And at first glance, you'd be right. The alliance does a...
- Blog posts 2009-08-17
- Why Motorola Is Desperately Seeking Android Apps
- Motorola is heavily courting developers who make applications for Google's Android operating system so that it can present new customers with a tantalizing array of applications when it launches its next family of smartphones. This is literally do or die for the company, and Elizabeth Woyke at Forbes reports ...
- Blog posts 2009-07-15
- First Android LG on the way
- LG is preparing to launch its first Android-based smartphone in ?select European markets? by the end of 2009. The South Korean electronics firm says the GW620 is designed with a view to ?making the smartphone experience more accessible for typical users? who also demand a full qwerty keyboard. ...
- Articles 2009-09-13
- Google and Apple face up for China fight
- Google is set to go head-to-head with Apple in China as the country's largest mobile operator prepares to launch a range of customised smartphones based on Google's Android operating system.China Mobile, the world's largest mobile operator by subscribers, will fire the opening shot in a battle for high-value subscribers...
- External links 2009-08-05
- Google's Android Is Moving Into The Digital Home
- By the end of the year, it looks like Google's Android operating system will have moved beyond the smartphone. MIPS Technologies, a company which designs processors for various home entertainment devices, says it is working with partners to design Android-based platforms for set-top boxes, digital TVs, mobile internet devices,...
- External links 2009-08-05
- Google's Android vs. Apple: History Repeats Itself
- Earnings Call ExcerptNice chart from ChangeWave showing Apple AAPL challenging RIM's RIMM market share. Been negative on RIM for a while and I think the share losses will continue--not just from Apple but most especially Android.Click to enlarge:Forget the current chart though, what will the chart look like 4...
- Earnings calls 2009-10-28
- Google Android Will Increasingly Win According to Gartner [UPDATE: Palm Hurting?]
- Just a few days ago I was arguing that platform would beat machine in the mobile wars. I specifically referred to Google and Apple, though meant the point more generally. But it appears that some Gartner research, leading to a 2012 projection, would back up the argument. by Erik Sherman
- Blog posts 2009-11-13
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- Two Linux-based mobile operating systems made their handset debuts at the Mobile World Congress
- Two Linux-based mobile operating systems made their handset debuts at the Mobile World Congress, pitting open-source LiMo Mobile Linux and the Google-led Open Handset Alliance's Android against Symbian and Windows Mobile.
- Research articles 2008-03-01
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