Archive for 'Google Grams' Category
‘Amazing Things You Had Never Thought of Before’
10 November 2007“You will be able to do amazing things with your [Google-powered] mobile device that you had never thought of before.” - Google CEO Eric Schmidt on the innovations that Google’s Android operating system for mobile devices (notice he didn’t say phones?) will make possible. On the Open Handset Alliance that Google has started with 33 […]
Where the Web and the Desktop Meet: Microsoft’s Windows Live
10 November 2007Has anyone asked whether Microsoft intends to join Google’s Open Handset Alliance and port its new Windows Live Web-based software to it? It would be a major shock if Microsoft did. After all, the software giant has spent half a decade or more developing and hawking Windows Mobile, its own operating system for mobile devices.
Microsoft […]
Nokia, Symbian Won’t Be Googled by Android
10 November 2007Symbian, developer of the Symbian mobile phone operating system, told the BBC that Google’s dominance of the Web does not guarantee that it will succeed with its Android operating system for mobile devices. John Forsyth, VP of strategy at Symbian, said Google lacked experience in the mobile phone industry. “Search and a mobile phone platform […]
Depends on One’s Point of View
10 November 2007Indians tell the story of the three blind men that felt different parts of an elephant and then gave widely different descriptions of the animal. The same lesson can be ascribed to the different headlines and story leads that described Google’s new Android wireless initiative:
“Google: Not an iPhone, OK?” - Techworld.com
“No Gphone, Google Bets on […]
Google and 33 Allies Send Shock and Awe through Mobile Industry
10 November 2007- Linux-based, Java-friendly OS & Software for Mobile Devices
- Open Handset Alliance Promises End to Proprietary, Closed Mobile Services
Google this week launched two major bunker-buster initiatives that could have a major impact on the mobile phone industry and all its players, regardless of whether they succeed, fail or muddle along.
One is an operating system (now […]
Et Tu, Google?
4 November 2007Uh, where does Google’s gPhone bundle of software, services and applications and its gMobile wireless network leave Apple, which has its own mobile phone ambitions?
Google: Search Is a Core Consumer Behavior
4 November 2007“Search is a core consumer behavior that defines our times. It’s an activity at the essence of what it is to be human, Google media platforms director Eileen Naughton said to magazine executives at the AMC convention this week in Boca Raton, as reported by mediabistro.com. In her talk, titled “Insights From Google,” Naughton urged […]
Who Will Go with Google to the Spectrum Dance?
4 November 2007The industry is wondering who Google may be talking about when it says it may bring at least one partner in on its bid for the 700 Mhz spectrum that the FCC will put up for auction in January 2008. Google and others successfully petitioned the FCC to require the winning bidder of one slice […]
Google Shares Top $700
4 November 2007The price of a share of Google zipped past $700 this week, giving it a market value of $218 billion. That’s right up there with AT&T and Procter & Gamble. The value of a Google share passed $600 just three weeks ago and $500 in early September. Wall Street shop Cowen & Co said the […]
No gPhone Handset, but Google-powered Mobile Phones
4 November 2007For months there have been rumors about Google offering a mobile phone and/or mobile phone operating system and/or a suite of services for mobile devices that would run on many models of mobile handsets. Google’s objective, as we have reported several times, is to make sure its ads appear as many times as possible on […]