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Android Lead Developer Leaves Google for Coupons Inc.

The lead developer of the Android platform for Google, is said to have left Google to be the new Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Coupons Inc.

Steve Horowitz, age 41, was with Google for three years as he led the Google Android team; seeing the project through all the way up until launch time with T-Mobile [...]

gPhone Coming Soon!

So the long awaited “gPhone” is coming soon. But it’s not called “gPhone” anymore.

The name that it is taking is Google Android and T-Mobile.
T-Mobile will be presenting its latest creation using the new Google Android platform.
But from what the rumors are saying, Google Android will not just be for mobile devices. Google Android [...]

Google Data Flirts with iPhone

Reported on Friday by Greg Robbins of the Google Mac Team, the Google Data APIs are coming to the iPhone. The Data APIs will be coming to the iPhone via the Objective-C application development language, native to Mac OS X.
The new source files for Google Data APIs are under version 1.4 and compile without [...]

Google Search Share Down in February

Google was not alone when they saw a drop in the number of web searches for February, “…the worldwide volume of searches also declined, comScore said on Wednesday.”
Web searches do seem to be down a little bit, but mobile traffic is increasing at an alarming rate. I feel this is where Google is starting [...]

Google Provides Search for Nokia Mobile Users Worldwide

“…Nokia and Google today announced that Google’s popular search engine will be integrated with the Nokia Search application.” Just another reason we strongly see Google moving into the mobile industry.

Over two years ago, we saw Motorola and Google partner together to offer Google services in a more efficient manner.
Then, shortly after that partnership, we [...]

No to gPhone, Yes to Google Mobile Operating System (Android)

Steve Horowitz, Director of Engineering for Google, confirms there is no gPhone. But, he then confirms that there is a Google mobile operating system that is real — Android.
The video below demos what Android can do and what Google has in store for it.

Now this is the stuff we’ve really been waiting for!

Google Wins the 700mhz FCC Auction @ $4.7bn

Google came out with the winning bid for the 700mhz frequency that the FCC has been auctioning off. A nice price tag of USD$4.7bn for the frequency.
A bid of $4.7 billion this morning for the most valuable group of wireless licenses in the Federal Communications Commission auction for 700Mhz spectrum pushed the price over [...]

Google’s gPhone by GE (411 too!)

The long-awaited gPhone is, well, sort of here now. GE is featuring a new phone that has a GOOG-411 button built directly onto the interface.
This new product line by GE simply proves that Google has an even more extensive interest in VoIP than we had imagined originally.
Kudos to Google for starting the push of [...]

Google Expected to Break $700

Google stock broke $600 yesterday, with an all time high of $610.26. Of course, the price made another breaking point today with a spike of $623 per share.
Google’s IPO back in April of 2004 has done wonders for the company. Raising nearly USD$3 billion with its IPO, Google has gone and done some unimaginable things. One acquisition after another from Google.

Google Changes the Game with the Google Phone (gPhone)

“That kind of 24/7 advertising engagement–on a phone, no less–may sound like a nightmare. But what if you could determine the kinds of products you get pitched? Or, when your flight gets canceled in a faraway airport, text messages pop up for the best hotel deals in town? No random insurance ads or airline deals for trips to places you never visit. Best of all: Watch or read the

Google Acquires Mobile Social Network Zingku

Google already has plans to launch their own mobile phone [service] in the near future so this is exactly what they needed to build on top of that. “We’ve entered into an agreement to have Google acquire our Zingku service.” Straight from the Zingku.com homepage, we can see that Google will be extending their mobile services even more. Zingku’s mission is to enable individuals and businesses to

Google Looks to Begin Laying Undersea Cable

“SAN FRANCISCO – Search giant Google Inc. may invest into a joint venture that lays high-speed trans-Pacific cable under the ocean, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.” The first thing that really sticks out to me is how this article describes Google. Google is no longer just a “search giant.” They are far more than a search company now and they should be treated

gPhone News Updates

“Google may be preparing a new mobile platform, a would-be rival to the Nokia-dominated (NOK) Symbian OS, Microsoft’s (MSFT) Windows Mobile, mobile Linux, Palm (PALM), and other operating systems. ” From the looks of it, Google Phone, termed gPhone, is definitely a future release of Google’s mobile division. Rumors were first heard of this “gPhone” back in early March 2007. Then a week later it was confirmed.