Garett Rogers of ZDNet posted recently that Google’s Andoid is shedding its allure with developers and therefore won’t be as attractive as an mobile application platform. In turn, Rogers argues, Android-powered phones won’t be as competitive as the newly released iPhone 3G. My reply is “wait a minute!”. Why? Mainly because Android hasn’t appeared tangibly…
Symbian, the UK based smartphone software maker who was recently acquired by Nokia, is trying to become more tied in with online software giant Google. Symbian will soon be open source and will attempt to use it’s relationship with Google to become an even stronger smartphone player. In a quote from Reuters, Symbian SEO Nigel…
According to Google Operating System, Google Maps is trialing a new feature for maps users – walking directions. This will be a great addition to the Google Maps System as more and more people chose to walk in major cities with the rising costs of gas and the pain involved with finding and paying for…
A friend of mine, Surj Patel, told a while back me he thinks the next big thing in mobile application interfaces will be multi-modal input. That is, we have buttons that allow us to interact with the phone and the fantastic iPhone allows us to use touch. For more of my perspective on touch interfaces,…
While consuming some of Google’s web services today (which is something I do a lot of), I noticed they have a new Favicon, as seen below. Seems Google went from a capital G to a little g. Perhaps they’re trying to be ‘softer’? I have seen it on Google Maps, Google Reader, Gmail, and many…
I’ve been a long time user of and advocate for GrandCentral, an amazing service that was acquired by Google last year. Since the acquisition, crickets have been chirping when it comes to GrandCentral talking, blogging, or releasing any new features. Well they’re at least blogging again. The latest is that they are allowing a forwarding…
So Google is making waves today in the tech press because they’re offering increased online storage space. Read their blog for more details While I’m a huge Google advocate and use their services for many online activities, I’d like to challenge them to do better than this. The options they have given us are merely…
This is a follow-up to an earlier post. Read it for yourself on Google’s Blog – they’ve swallowed GrandCentral. Looks like google will have even more of my data now.
This is huge (and great) news! According to Mike Arrington at TechCrunch, Google has acquired Grandcentral, a service I’ve discussed many times before. This would be a big development in the VoIP world, in my opinion. Grandcentral has a great offering and it will complement Google’s other efforts including gmail, gtalk, and VoIP very well….