Google Confirms Employees Have ‘Google Phone’
Several blogs have pegged the phone as the “HTC Passion,” a slab-style device very similar to the HTC HD2 that some bloggers have said will be coming to T-Mobile USA.
That doesn’t make the Passion any more a “Google phone” than other “With Google” or “Google Experience” Android phones, such as the Motorola Droid or T-Mobile G1.
Meanwhile, The Wall Street Journal reported that an upcoming Android phone from HTC will be called “Nexus One” and that “Google designed virtually the entire software experience behind the phone.”
But that’s also true of the unlocked version of the T-Mobile G1, released last year as the Android Dev Phone 1. This May, our own Mark Hachman (as well as many Android developers) was given a version of the HTC Magic phone that was called the “Google Ion” at the time – also unlocked, also direct from Google.
More intriguingly, the Journal says that Google intends to sell the phone en masse to consumers unlocked, not through a wireless carrier.
While that’s a common business model in most of the world, and the Dev Phone 1 is available unlocked, typically unlocked phones haven’t sold many units here in the US.
TechCrunch says that a new phone “will be called the Google Phone” and will be sold directly by Google, independently of any wireless carrier.
Engadget claims it will run on AT&T, while blogger John Gruber says its 3G radio will only work with T-Mobile, and AT&T customers would be stuck in 2G mode.
I don’t have any exclusive information about new devices. But I’d bet that this phone is just T-Mobile’s new flagship Android phone, the way the Droid was for Verizon. Remember, Google works with preferred hardware partners to showcase new versions of Android. Google was intensely involved in the design of the original G1. Motorola and Verizon got the first shot at Android 2.0; perhaps now it’s time for Google to show love to HTC and T-Mobile again.
As for it being sold unlocked, remember that T-Mobile has their new Even More Plus plans which are designed to be used with unsubsidized, unlocked phones.
Via PCMag
Electric Contact Lense by Opto-electronic | Technology Bytes | Emagzine.Org
Now we can have a tiny computer display in our eye through the ongoing work with opto-electronic contact lenses taking place at the University of Washington in Seattle.The lab there has been showing off the latest prototype, the handiwork of Dr. Babak Parviz: a semi-transparent array – including an LED – embedded into a contact lens that receives 330 microwatts of power wirelessly from a nearby RF transmitter. Parviz has been using the prototypes to display biosensor feedback about the wearer’s vital signs, but they’ll eventually serve as a heads-up display for displaying other data.The wireless power is picked up by a loop antenna built into the lens, and future iterations of the hardware are expected to integrate the transmitter into a cellphone. There’ll also be far many more LEDs involved, so that the resolution is high enough to be useful.
via Electric Contact Lense by Opto-electronic | Technology Bytes | Emagzine.Org.
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Twitter Now Asks “What’s Happening”
Twitter has implemented a small change today, which by comparison to Retweets and UI redesigns isn’t such a huge deal but it’s definitely worth mention. Twitter’s prompting question above the box from which you Tweet from has been “What are you doing” since the microblogging platform launched. Today, it’s been changed to “What’s Happening.”
It’s a wise move because “What are you doing” seemed too narrow for the platform. Broadening the question to match all the things people use twitter for was necessary. Considering that Twitter is now used for breaking news, that term doesn’t really cover it.
via washingtonpost.com.
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IBM Researchers Go Way Beyond AI With Cat-Like Cognitive Computing
IBM researchers have developed a cognitive computer simulation that mimics the way a cat brain processes thought, and they expect to be able to mimic human thought processes within a decade. “A cognitive computer could quickly and accurately put together the disparate pieces of any complex data puzzle and help people make good decisions rapidly,” said Daniel Kantor, medical director of Neurologique.
Read full article @ Technology News: Med Tech: IBM Researchers Go Way Beyond AI With Cat-Like Cognitive Computing.
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Google Releases Chrome OS Code
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Google on Thursday released the code for its upcoming Chrome OS, and plans to have a netbook running the operating system available for sale before the 2010 holiday season.Chrome OS has now been open-sourced as part of the Chromium OS project and is open and free to the development community. It includes the current code base, user interface experiments, and some initial designs for ongoing development.When Chrome OS makes it to the market by the end of next year, all activity will be stored in the cloud, Sundar Pichai, vice president of product management at Google, said during a technical preview at the company's Mountain View headquarters. Therefore, if you lose your Chrome OS-based netbook and buy another one, all of your information will be recovered as soon as you log into the new machine.Pichai did not reveal pricing information, but said that it would “be in the range of what people expect today” for a netbook.Google does, however, plan to introduce a slightly larger than usual netbook to accommodate more comfortable typing and viewing, and it is, therefore, “hard to predict” what type of prices to expect a year from now. Google has not specified a price target that it wishes its partners to hit, he said.Google will initially focus on netbooks, but plans to eventually expand that to laptops and desktops. That will not happen in the 2010 timeframe, however, Pichai said.Specific hardware partners will be unveiled in mid-2010. “The goal is to run it as a very open project and we'll be working with a full variety of partners,” Pichai said.He said that Chrome OS currently works on an x86 processor, but there is “work underway” for it to function on ARM as well.”We don't want to go into all the technical details, but we'll make sure that you can run native-based apps on x86 and ARM,” said Matt Papakipos, engineering director on Chrome OS.A Google Chrome OS device is “primarily intended for connectivity” through Wi-Fi as a “fundamentally different model of computing,” Pichai said.That said, there will be instances where users can cache programs locally and use them offline, like listening to music or reading books. As part of HTML 5 capabilities Google is also looking at offline capabilities, with access to local storage.Wi-Fi efforts are primarily focused on 802.11n, Papakipos said.Pichai was not concerned that the OS is too tightly integrated with the browser, which has earned Microsoft some antitrust scrutiny.”We dont have 95 percent market share in the OS market,” he said. “What we are doing is open source. If a competitor wants to bring a competing product to market under a different name, they can.”Google has not had conversations with regulators, he said.Co-founder Sergey Brin said Google does not think about Microsoft. “We think about how we save end users,” he said. “We take data and try to make sure how we make sense of it.”There will be no charge for the Google OS itself, Brin said. If a partner wants to call it a Google machine, then they can, but there will also be a business negotiation that follows to pay Google a fee.
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