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Google unveiled Chrome OS in an event yesterday where they demonstrated the upcoming cloud-based OS for the first time in public. Source code of Chrome OS was also released which folks over at gdgt have compiled in a ready-to-install .vmdk file. All you need now is a system running Windows, Linux or OS X with any of the vir (Read More)
Engadget:
It's a funny thing, the CLIQ. When it was introduced at a low-key press conference, the world gasped as the flagging handset maker finally made its first really bold move since the RAZR by ushering in its first-ever Android handset. Here we a few months later, and the only Android-based Moto that anyone's talking about is t (Read More)
iphone - fresh news by plazoo.com:
App developers have it hard enough on the iPhone; on Android, they've got to keep prices just as low, and sell to a much smaller audience. So how are some of them coping? By packing up and leaving, like Gameloft. Finance director for the company, Alexandre de Rochefort, says that even a company ... (Read More)
Gizmodo:
App developers have it hard enough on the iPhone; on Android, they've got to keep prices just as low, and sell to a much smaller audience. So how are some of them coping? By packing up and leaving, like Gameloft. Finance director for the company, Alexandre de Rochefort, says that even a company that's done extremely well on (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Ever since Google started talking about its Google Chrome OS, developers, competitors, and observers have been wondering why Google needs two operating systems: Android and Chrome OS. At today’s chrome OS briefing, Google was asked whether Chrome OS would support Android apps. The answer is no. Of course, as Michael pointe (Read More)
Lifehacker:
My wife bought me a Garmin GPS for Christmas last year. After showing her Google Navigation on my G1, she asked if her gift is obsolete. Sorry to say but, for anything but long-distance treks, Google's Navigation is good enough. I've been using Google Maps Navigation on an HTC G1, which is not the higher-powered, bigger-scr (Read More)
Lifehacker:
iPhone/Windows Mobile/Android/Symbian: Fring, the app that means to let anyone make free Skype, Google Talk, MSN, or SIP calls from any phone, has hit Android. It works just as expected, over EDGE, 3G, or Wi-Fi. Making free Skype calls from a Wi-Fi connection on your handset is a pretty neat feature in itself, but Fring aim (Read More)
Lifehacker:
My wife bought me a Garmin GPS for Christmas last year. After showing her Google Navigation on my G1, she asked if her gift is obsolete. Sorry to say but, for anything but long-distance treks, Google's Navigation is good enough. I've been using Google Maps Navigation on an HTC G1, which is not the higher-powered, bigger-scr (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Every smartphone platform now has its own App Store, led by Apple's iPhone. And while some software firms are busily cranking out apps for all of them -- Apple, Google Android, BlackBerry, Palm WebOS, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Nokia Symbian, etc. -- many are choosing to stick with only Apple.Read the rest of this story »See (Read More)
Lifehacker:
There's an eyebrow-raising rumor that Google's toying with a cellphone that could work on any data network and make phone calls through its Gizmo5/Google Voice package. Are you ready to leave standard voice channels behind for the wireless data frontier? There are a handful of clues that, strung together, seem to point towa (Read More)
TechCrunch:
The debate over Droid v. iPhone rages on, but lots more Android surprises are on the way. Get ready for the Google Phone. It’s no longer a myth, it’s real.The next “super” Android device will almost certainly be a HTC phone that’s much thinner than even the Droid or iPhone – The the Dragon/Passion. This is the phone the sen (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Yesterday we wrote about the soon to launch Google Phone, a Google branded Android phone that we believe will hit the market in early 2010. Lots of people are saying there’s no way Google will enter the phone market directly and compete with all these handset manufacturers who have bet on Android. Daring Fireball, PC World (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Internet Explorer 9 promises speed and standards compliance, Google could be toying with a data-only phone that's not really a phone, and Firefox tightens its code against rogue add-ons. Microsoft... (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Google is powerful. We all know this, and live with it. But that brings up some interesting concerns when they break into new businesses — will they use that power to give them an unfair advantage? With great power comes great responsibility, and all that. Today brings a totally innocuous example, but it’s still interesting (Read More)
Wired: Gadget Lab:
Google has already delivered its own mobile operating system Android to several smartphone manufacturers. But the search giant isn’t stopping there, says TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington. The blogger claims with absolute confidence that Google is making its own smartphone hardware.“Everything up until now has just been (Read More)