With economic conditions deteriorating worldwide, it's easy to be gloomy as 2008 gets underway.
Android GooglePhone unveiled
Google
ARM, the British chipmaker, has unveiled the first mobile phone to use Google’s Android mobile operating system at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
The unbranded prototype features an internet browser, map software, multimedia applications, text messaging, calendar functions and email as well as a phone.
Android is backed by an alliance of more than 30 mobile phone operators …
Google Bullfighting with Apple
Google
According to the Cringely Pulpit — a weekly column on the website of public-service broadcaster PBS — Google is in bed with Apple while both companies are keeping a close eye on each other’s every move.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt says, “Google’s architectural model around broadband and services and so forth plays very well to the powerful devices and services Apple is doing. We’re a perfect back end to the problems that they’re trying to solve. …
More storage at Gmail
Google
The Gmail storage counter seems to have been stuck around 2,800MB for quite a while. Many users have exceeded that some time ago, so it was appropriate that storage-rich Google announced new target numbers going forward.
The Official Google Blog says :
In April 2005, we started increasing Gmail storage as part of our “Infinity+1″ storage plan for future expansion. …
GooglePhone after Labor Day
Google
In conditions of the highest secrecy with NDAs slapped on insiders, the long-awaited GooglePhone is set to enter a crowded marketplace sometime soon after America’s Labor Day.
It is being described it as “simpler” and not as flashy as Apple’s iPhone. It has the ability to scroll through icons horizontally, making a number of different features easily accessible despite the limited screen space.
Another described it as having …
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