Posted by Brian Leahy
Google has admitted to including a remote “kill switch” to their Android platform, which would allow them to remove malicious applications from an Android device.
Apple came under fire for including the same “device” in the iPhone, which they would use to disable a dangerous application if it had somehow approved an application [...]
It was always possible that Google would launch its own browser, but never an obvious move: it would mean undercutting the independent Firefox browser that Google has done so much to support. A Google browser would therefore involve a bit of empire building — adding to the huge pile of pies in which Google already [...]
Ian Lamont, The Industry Standard
Google’s Rich Miner has identified one of the biggest problems facing mobile phone carriers, manufacturers, and developers: The hardware on the current generation of phones is not being used by many customers.
G1 phoneMiner, Google’s group manager of mobile platforms, made the observation at the Future of Mobile panel at Emerging Technology [...]
A 2007 patent filing by Google (published just yesterday) sheds light on how Google aims to take over the wireless world - shaking from grounds up the wireless industry business model. It appears the Android OS was just a small part of Google’s plan for a wireless revolution.
It would have been too simple if Google [...]
Visa to team up with Google for mobile payment platform — Credit card giant Visa will make a mobile payment application for Google’s mobile platform, Android. The app may also include location-based services to help you find where to rack up more credit card debt.
Is Google Chrome a security risk? – Experts have yet to [...]
Soon the T-Mobile G1, probably better known as the Google Android HTC Dream will be hitting the stores, and with a tremendous amount of net coverage as reviewers get their hands on it to give it the once over.
So why get excited about Android? Android’s true target isn’t the 19% of mobile phones running OS’s [...]
By John Oram
T-mobile USA’s HTC Dream phone, with Google’s Android platform, arrives Tuesday, September 25th in New York City. T-mobile’s 1,700 MHz 3G UMTS/HSPA network is steadily moving towards nationwide coverage.
Cole Brodman, chief development officer of T-Mobile USA, said with the faster data speeds delivered by their 3G network, and really high-speeds are just around [...]
Posted by Stephen Shankland
Google demonstrated Street View on an Android mobile phone in May. Now it’s available for BlackBerry phones and several others. (Click on the image above for an Android slide show.)
(Credit: Stephen Shankland/CNET News/Google)
Street View endows Google Maps with a driver’s-eye view of the world, and now people actually on the street will [...]
by Donald Melanson
We’re not sure if its recent spate of handset announcements had anything to do with it or not, but it looks like Google has now asked ASUS to join the Open Handset Alliance, an invitation that we’re assuming ASUS expected to accept (or else we probably wouldn’t be hearing about it). Apparently, Google [...]
Andy Rubin, Google’s director of mobile platforms, reveals a great deal about Google’s mobile strategy in a recent Reuters interview. One thing, in particular, caught my eye and suggests that Google’s Android may succeed, and yet fail at the same time:
Rather than launch the new operating system with a range of devices from several [...]
By Yinka Adegoke and Eric Auchard
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) is betting it can revolutionize wireless Internet service on mobile phones the way that it transformed the search business on PCs.
The search behemoth has already taken on Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) in [...]
Posted by David Berlind, Sep 12, 2008 02:09 PM
Yesterday, I wrote about the war — more like the Armageddon — that’s on the verge of eruption in the mobile space. Given how critical third party software developers are to the strategic success of any platform ecosystem, we can fully expect Apple,Google (NSDQ: [...]
The new web browser is already giving competitors a run for their money, says Claudine Beaumont
Everything the search giant Google touches seems to turn to gold, from Gmail, its free web-based email service, to its latest and most ambitious project - a new internet browser, Chrome.
Less an internet browser and more an operating system: Google [...]
Google’s having a busy time, making waves that have been felt all around the mobile and web world — especially the latter.
First up, Android — a software stack for mobile devices that includes an operating system, middleware and key applications. That’s not our description, but Google’s.
We’d describe Android as Google’s attempt to give [...]
By Lawrence Casiraya
INQUIRER.net
First Posted 11:28:00 09/09/2008
SINGAPORE – It is yet to be seen whether its recently released Web browser will finally make Google cool in the eyes of the ordinary consumer, according to a top executive of Sun Microsystems.
The search giant unveiled Chrome last week, its own browser version which competes with Firefox [...]
