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Google Confirms Employees Have ‘Google Phone’
Google confirmed Saturday that their internal developers are using an unreleased Android based phone, as contradictory rumors about a “Google Phone” flew back and forth across the Internet.On an official Google blog, vice president of product management Mario Queroz said that Google employees are using “a device that combines innovative hardware from a partner with [...]
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 [...]
It’s Google’s World And Handset Makers Just Live In It
When the Motorola Droid launched this month everyone was amazed that a company so down on its luck was able to put together a well-designed phone running a powerful, “brand new” OS. The whole package – hardware, software, and marketing – seemed flawless. In fact, phones running Android 1.5 now look hopelessly outdated and with [...]
Nokia N-Gage gaming platform to be closed
While the gaming industry is busy celebrating today over the Golden Joysticks awards, there’s one company which is looking at its gaming division with a rather sour expression – Nokia. They’ve never had much luck with their N-Gage gaming platform, whether it be N-Gage devices which launched in 2003, or just their N-Gage downloads store, [...]
WiFi pioneer John O’Sullivan wins PM’s Prize for Science
ALMOST two decades after pioneering high-speed wireless technology, John O’Sullivan has won one of the nation’s top science gongs.
The CSIRO scientist was awarded the prestigious Prime Minister’s Prize for Science for 2009 for his WiFi technology now found in millions of laptops, printers, wireless access devices and even Nintendo’s Wii.
Dr O’Sullivan and his team found [...]
Verizon’s Mystery Droid Takes Aim at Apple’s iPhone
New Ad Campaign Targets iPhone With Tagline, ‘Whatever iDon’t, Droid Does’
In an aggressive new ad campaign teasing a mystery phone with the potential to slay Apple’s leading smartphone, Verizon Wireless appears to have thrown down the gauntlet.
Its Web and TV ad lists the iPhone’s most notorious flaws, such as the lack of [...]
Microsoft Posts Sidekick Recovery Tool
Sidekick users who have been angry at T-Mobile and Microsoft’s Danger for losing their personal data have received a little solace: Microsoft is now offering a recovery tool on T-Mobile’s Web site to help owners of the mobile device retrieve their lost contacts.
This tool will restore contacts only, but Microsoft said in a statement that [...]
Microsoft Prepping Minor Windows Mobile 6.51 Upgrade
While Windows Mobile 6.5 platform isn’t apparently turning out to be a success on several handsets, Microsoft Corp. has decided to come up with a more user-friendly stopgap version of the operating system, version 6.5.1, before it upgrades the platform to the next-generation Windows Mobile 7.
Microsoft has only recently released Windows Mobile 6.5 – on [...]
It’s Flash on the iPhone … Sort of
It’s Flash on the iPhone … Sort of – PC World
The iPhone may be the only major smartphone in the known universe that’s unlikely to get Adobe’s Flash Player anytime soon, but there is a bit of iPhone/Flash news. At Adobe’s MAX conference in Los Angeles, the company announced that Flash Professional CS5, the next [...]
3 Reasons Why iPhone Won’t Get Adobe Flash
Adobe delighted on Monday the smartphone world, when it announced that Flash Player 10.1 will be available by the end of the year on BlackBerry, WinMo, Palm WebOS, Google Android, and Symbian phones.
But the millions of iPhone users out there are left fuming over the announcement because their beloved gadget isn’t showing any signs of [...]
