Submitted by Antonella
from Google Reader:
Another expansion for Spotify, the much-hyped European streaming music service: It’s now going to be available on Nokia (NOK) phones and other handsets that run the Symbian platform. That’s good, because the service is supposed to work best as a mobile play.But Spotify has yet to make a key expansion: To the U.S., where the (Read More)
Submitted by Scbalazs
from Google Reader:
How much would Google be affected by news outlets removing their content and siding with Microsoft's Bing?The war of the search engines enters a new phase as Microsoft considers paying publishers to put their content on its search enging Bing - presumably in the hope they will do as Rupert Murdoch has suggested and remove i (Read More)
techno.blog("Dion"):
“Just what the world needs—another sucky JavaScript library,” he said. When I asked him what made it ‘sucky’, he elaborated. “It’s a JavaScript library written by Java developers who clearly don’t get JavaScript.”This quote is by Kevin Yank, talking to Dmitry Baranovskiy, author of the fantastic Raphaël graphics abstraction (Read More)
Electricpig.co.uk - The UK's fastest-growing tech news site:
Sergey Brin, one of Google’s founders, predicts that Google Chrome (newly arrived in its Google Chrome OS form) and Google’s mobile device OS Android will eventually merge.Though Google Chrome and Android were developed separately, Brin said he expects the two will become closer and more integrated now both projects are pub (Read More)
TechCrunch:
A few weeks ago that was a lot of excitement surround the launch of Google Maps Navigation. Unfortunately, it only worked with Android 2.0 and up, which means only the newest devices right now, like the Droid. But today Google has given an early holiday present to its other Android users: Maps Navigation to anyone running a (Read More)
Submitted by Bwana
from Google Reader:
An anonymous reader writes "Using the latest build of Google's Chromium OS source-code, Phoronix built it out to run on a Samsung netbook and ran sixteen benchmarks putting it up against Moblin 2.1, Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.10, openSUSE 11.2, and Fedora 12. They ran some of their usual desktop benchmarks (encoding, video, etc (Read More)
webworkerdaily:
It’s WebWorkerDaily’s fault that I’ve bought an iPod touch (s aapl). (That’s my excuse, anyway.) As I looked at potential subjects to write about, I kept seeing cool apps, and I need to be able to test them, right?But why not buy an iPhone, or a Palm Pre, which I’d had my eye on for several months? The Pre seems to be a goo (Read More)
Submitted by Mogston
from blog:
The Motorola (NYSE: MOT) droid launched rolling large with Android 2.0, but for those with older Android devices, you can shelf away your jealousy; the biggest feature, voice-prompted driving directions in Google Maps, is now available on all Android 1.6 devices. Aside from a nice robot lady telling you when to turn, you ca (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Previously users wanting to run Google Maps Navigation on their Android phones either needed a 2.0 device (like the Droid) or resorted to this workaround. Today, Google announced the application is now available for pretty much every Android device. Google Maps Navigation is a GPS system with automatic rerouting and voice g (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Last week we pointed you toward a virtual machine build of Chrome OS for anyone eager to play around with (the still incomplete) Chrome OS, but if you'd rather try running it from a thumb drive, weblog MakeUseOf has you covered. Tech blogger Jorge Sierra details how to install Chrome OS on a bootable thumb drive so you can (Read More)
Submitted by Mogston
from blog:
Just in time for Thanksgiving travels, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is rolling out turn-by-turn navigation to all Android phones that have received the latest Android operating system update.
Google Maps Navigation was first available on the Motorola (. (Read More)
Submitted by Mogston
from blog:
Yet another Google (NSDQ: GOOG) property, Google Earth, is getting ads. The move comes as Google has introduced advertising over the last year to a set of its properties that were previously unmonetized, including Google Finance, Google Image Search, and even its “search suggest function”; the company has also. (Read More)
Submitted by Mogston
from blog:
When Verizon launched the Motorola Droid, the most compelling feature was the Google turn-by-turn navigation acting as an internet-connected GPS system with voice guidance and automatic rerouting... (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Now this is cool. Some of the hype over Google Wave has died down over the last few weeks, in no small part because most people have absolutely no idea how to use it (no, the 80 minute long video demo doesn’t help). Now it looks like the Wave team has another idea up their sleeves to show people the power of Wave: they’re (Read More)
Mashable!:
For the last month and a half, AT&T and Verizon have been at war. Verizon launched ads tearing down AT&T’s 3G coverage, AT&T countered with a lawsuit and ads starring Luke Wilson. Hell, even Apple is getting involved in this messy affair.With the two largest mobile networks making headlines, we thought it would be appropr (Read More)