Posts Tagged ‘Google’
Internet Explorer falls below 50 percent global marketshare, Chrome usage triples
Oh, IE, it pains us to do this to you. You who once so mightily won in the battle against Netscape Navigator now seem to be losing your war against a battalion of upstarts, relatively fresh faces like Firefox and Chrome. According to StatCounter, IE’s global usage stats have fallen to 49.87 percent,...
October 5th, 2010 | Software | Read More
Samsung discontinuing support of Symbian December 31Google adds 20 countries to Android market, 18 more in the works
Yesterday, Google announced that “developers from 20 more countries can now sell paid apps on Android Market.” The additional countries include: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, South...
October 4th, 2010 | Software | Read More
Google updates Gmail Android app
Google has just released an update to its Gmail application to the Android Market. The new app brings several new conveniences, including: message actions stick to the top of the screen while scrolling, view previous messages more easily (like in the desktop client), and limited support for Priority...
September 22nd, 2010 | Software | Read More
Apple Finally Lets A Google Voice Application Into The App Store (Again)
Google Voice applications have had a pretty tumultuous history in the App Store. At first, Apple approved them, and the people rejoiced. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, they were pulled, with “duplicating features that the iPhone comes with (Dialer, SMS, etc).” cited as the reasoning. The people...
September 20th, 2010 | Software | Read More
Facebook working on their own phone?
TechCrunch broke the news and Business Insider is also reporting that Facebook is working on their own mobile handset. The first report claimed that Facebook’s Joe Hewitt and Eric Tseng (previous Facebook iPhone app developer and previous Senior Product Manager for Android at Google) are heading up...
September 20th, 2010 | Industry | Read More
Droid Does website points to imminent Froyo update for Droid X… but what does it mean?
Just as Paul Vasquez would have us do, we’re questioning the true meaning behind a curious page that has popped up over at the Droid Does website — a very authentic portal that Verizon Wireless itself has been pushing for nearly a year. Put simply, the splash page details “great news!”...
September 15th, 2010 | Software | Read More
Google TV officially launching October 17th?
It’s been no secret that Google TV is scheduled to arrive sometime this fall and we’ve already seen the Logitech Revue box hardware pass the FCC, but a tipster has just shared an internal Best Buy document with us disclosing that the original planned launched date was October 3rd, and it’s...
September 14th, 2010 | Industry | Read More
Google responds to Apple’s iOS statement: “great news for everyone”
Shortly after Apple announced that they would be easing developer restrictions for the iOS platform, Google published a statement giving their proverbial thumbs up. In a blog post, Google writes:
Apple’s new terms will keep in-app advertising on the iPhone open to many different mobile ad competitors...
September 10th, 2010 | Industry | Read More
Google Voice widgets for Android made official
A few weeks back, we told you about Google Voice widgets for Android that were extracted from a leaked T-Mobile G2 ROM. Today, Google has made the widgets official. In a blog post, Google writes: “Mobile is all about getting super fast access to what you’re looking for and Google Voice is no exception.
So,...
September 10th, 2010 | Software | Read More
Google Instant on a Motorola Droid 2, hands-on
Google’s new hotness is likely invading your desktop web search right now, but what’s Instant search like on a smartphone? We got a good look at a Verizon-based Droid 2 running a prototype version of the auto-complete engine on both WiFi and 3G, and we’re happy to say it’s just...
September 9th, 2010 | CellPhones | Read More
