As I sat in the audience at Google's I|O conference yesterday morning, I watched Google VP of Engineering Vic Gundotra and others unveil Android 2.2 "Froyo," an ambitious upgrade to the company's mobile OS. Gundotra began the keynote by framing Android as a moral crusade against "a future where one man, one company, one device, one carrier would be our only choice."
According to BetaNews, a Google spokesperson has confirmed that the company's new voice search for iPhone violates the terms of Apple's SDK - the part of the iPhone's code that controls the capability is undocumented by Apple.
Google (NSDQ:GOOG)'s Android operating system is rapidly gaining mindshare among smartphone users. So much mindshare, in fact, that one Web traffic researcher is declaring that Android has finally been able to distract potential smartphone users from Apple (NSDQ:AAPL)'s iPhone juggernaut.
When Google (GOOG) released its Nexus One concept phone last weekend to some of its employees, the blogosphere and industry pundits went on a feeding frenzy: Would Google try and release its own wireless phone and compete directly with its existing carrier customers?
Mobile phone manufacturers are preparing to launch a wave of increasingly adaptable 'pocket computers' in an effort to see off the challenge posed by the Apple iPhone.
Bing's market share keeps getting bigger (as of this writing, it's at just above 10 percent), and with the release of an iPhone app, Microsoft's oddly named search engine is getting serious about expanding their presence on every platform they can.
To be honest, I don't really care which is the better smartphone (or super-duper phone): the iPhone 3GS, the Motorola Droid, HTC's Droid Eris, Google's Nexus One, Nokia's N900 or the Palm Pre.
IBM is helping iPhones go corporate this week, with the introduction of a free plug in that allows Notes users to read their encrypted e-mail on the Apple smartphone.
Apple has approved a streaming music application from Spotify for use on the iPhone, even though the program will compete with Apple's own iTunes service.
Apple has won the right to say that its apps are available "only on the iPhone" in the UK despite complaints that other handsets such as Google's G1 phone also offer similar ranges of software.
Yahoo on Thursday announced that it has upgraded its iPhone app to include voice search, which lets users conduct a oneSearch query simply by "pressing and speaking" into the handset.
That's right, Adobe will allow developers to create applications in Flash that they can then port to the iPhone and iPod Touch as native applications. The new feature will be available in Flash Professional CS5, where developers will have the option to export as .ipa files.
Touchscreen technology has reached great heights and today most people want their accessories to have touchscreens. If buttons and excess typing on your mobile phone makes your fingers ache, then these two accessories are the products for you.