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SMS Top US Mobile Activity In 2010
10th February 2011
Several advances took place with regards to mobile phones in the U.S. in 2010. However, sending text messages remained the top mobile activity for the year that was pegged to be yet another “year of mobile”. More »
Media Tablet Sales To Reach 200 Million
15th November 2010
Information technology research and advisory company, Gartner Inc. has predicted that the media tablet market is set to explode in the years to come. More »
Nexus One Failed. Yet Why Are There Rumours Of Nexus Two?
3rd November 2010
Samsung Mobile has announce the launch of a new Android device on the 8th of November in New York. This announcement has fuelled rumours that the new device will be Google’s Nexus Two. More »
Video Ads On Android
27th October 2010
Admob, Google’s mobile advertising unit, has just announced the availability of interactive video ads on Google’s Android mobile operating system. More »
Google Chrome OS Readying For Release
13th October 2010
Last July, Google had announced that they were working on an operating system that would be called Chrome OS. It now looks as though the Chrome OS is about to be released. More »
Android Most Popular On New Mobiles
12th October 2010
Data released by the Nielsen Company for the month of August indicates that Android has grown to be the most popular operating system among U.S. consumer who bought smartphones in the last six months. More »
Google To Work With PayPal
11th October 2010
For some time now, there have been rumours about a possible partnership between Google and PayPal to enable payment of Android Apps. More »
Voice Search Is The Future
19th August 2010
While Google’s Android Operating System is giving the Apple iPhone a run for its money, Google has already started concentrating on voice search, which is likely to be the next “big thing”. More »
Growth In Android Use Fuels Smartphone Market
18th August 2010
Recently released reports from IDC indicate that the smart phone market has grown about 50% worldwide during the second quarter of 2010, compared to the second quarter of 2009. The highest growth has been seen by Google Android partners. More »
Android Money Comes From Google Mobile Ads
27th July 2010
The Android operating system may not be vital to the Google search engine, but Google makes a killing from the ads sold through the Android operating system. More »
Android Favoured For Phones
3rd June 2010
Google’s Android Operating System has been given the thumbs up by many hardware manufacturers. In fact, it is widely believed that Android will be the most popular operating system for phones and tablet PCs in the near future. More »
Google TV, Chrome Web Store, Storage Announced At I/O
24th May 2010
Google’s annual developer conference was held last week, from the 19th to 20th of May. Google used the event to brief developers about upcoming product and feature launches, and as expected, the event featured some exciting new services. More »
Google Partners With Verizon To Build iPad Rival
14th May 2010
Google and Verizon Wireless have revealed that they have joined forces to design a tablet computer that will rival the iPad. This new tablet will run on the Android operating system. More »
Google Mobile Updates Search, Latitude
6th May 2010
Following the updates made to the Google Web search results interface, Google has also updated the mobile search results pages. More »
Google Launches Place Pages For Mobile
29th April 2010
After the successful launch of Place Pages in conjunction with Google Maps, last fall, Google has now gone a step further and introduced Place Pages optimised for mobile handsets. More »
Android Popularity Surges In U.S.
29th March 2010
The recently released Mobile Metrics Report from AdMob shows that while the iPhone continues to be the global market leader in its category, things are changing in the U.S.A. More »
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 »
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