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TelevisionSorry, folks. I’m a little late with this one. “The Wire” is quite simply the best show on television, and has been for a while. Now it has entered its fifth and final season, and the season premiere airs Jan. 6. But my head was wrapped in holiday paper and soaked in eggnog, so I failed to tout it early enough. If you have HBO, you know the first episode will continue to air this week and also is available on HBO On Demand. Usually, each season is unique for a particular backdrop — politics, education, life on the docks. This time it’s the newspaper business. Creator David Simon is coming home. Give this show your attention and also a proper send-off. You’ll miss it when it’s over, and no mentions in Can’t Miss will bring it back. (HBO, Sunday, 9 p.m.) Complete Story...
Ever since Gizmodo snapped photos of supposed Google-powered mobile phones, speculations abound regarding their debut. The pic above is an HTC (a Taiwanese company) manufactured Google Android smartphone prototype.
Then, just six short weeks ago, the search supremo (and just-about-everything-else-online supremo) announced there would not be a 'Google phone' per se, but rather dozens of them from a raft of mobile manufacturers, and all built on an open Linux-based mobile phone platform nam …
I just cannot believe where we are with robot technology and the uses robots are already being put. It is quite possible that we will have humanoid robots in our homes with in the next few years.
Google Android videos, a library of videos from around the Net explaining the new Google Android platform.
Gizmodo has got their hands on a photograph (pic right) of a prototype phone running Google's Android Open Mobile operating system. According to the report, the phone itself looks like it may have been manufactured by HTC. Looks ok to me.
A list of 10 (not yet developed) killer applications for the Android platform. An Android equipped phone with these apps would make a stock iPhone look like a DynaTAC in comparison.
"We believe it's important to put our money where our principles are," said Eric Schmidt, Chairman and CEO, Google. "Consumers deserve more competition and innovation than they have in today's wireless world.
"The user experience has been a disaster," says Tony Davis, managing partner of Brightspark, a Toronto venture capital firm that has invested in two mobile Web companies.
When Google conquered Internet search in the early 2000s, it was strictly a Web company and faced only Web competitors. Since then it has only rarely ventured out of the friendly confines of the Web world.
Google's almost simultaneous announcement of its open platforms in both the mobile and social network spaces was no coincidence.
The iPhone vs Android are compared to Macintosh vs Windows.
As it promised last week, Google today released an early version of the "Android" SDK. This is in fact, an early look as Google terms it, so it's far from a finished product. At the same time, Google announced a contest to jump-start development.
he kit also includes code that, for some, may confirm Google's increasingly strong ties to Apple, manifested most often for observers by the presence of Google chief Eric Schmidt on Apple's Board of Directors.
Wow! Google's Android Demo is amazing! I'm impressed!
Open Handset Alliance released an early look Android SDK and announced a competiton for app makers. Out of the box the software supports touchscreen, 3G, accelerated 3D graphics and has a webkit-based browser.
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced the Android Developer Challenge, which will provide $10 million to developers who build mobile applications for Android™, the first complete, open, and free mobile platform.
Looks pretty impressive. I can't wait to see more.
Google's plans to enter the mobile industry with a cell phone platform might have impressed many in the industry but not Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft and one of Google's biggest competitors.
Remember WhatsOpen.com, the stealth search startup that piqued Google cofounder Sergey Brin's interest last month? Brin was so intrigued he told the founders to keep the company hush-hush. Now, however, a source has leaked screenshots of WhatsOpen's secret project.
Internet search engine, Google, yesterday announced its plans to make it easier to use the internet via mobile phone. Google is said to be working on a mobile-phone operating system, currently called 'Android', which it plans to launch during the second half of 2008.
The Google Phone has arrived, sort of, but not in the long-rumored embodiment that many had expected.
Ok, this is old news I know. Reading the Businessweek article from 2005 brings today's news full circle. This 2 year old article announces that Google made a low-key bid for Android, a small but powerful team of engineers who design software for mobile phones.
Despite all of the very interesting speculation over the last few months, we're not announcing a Gphone. However, we think what we are announcing -- the Open Handset Alliance and Android -- is more significant and ambitious than a single phone.
This went up today at Android.com, home of Andy Rubin who is now head of mobile devices for Google. This is the future of cellular phones. :) Industry Leaders Announce Open Platform for Mobile Devices Group Pledges to Unleash Innovation for Mobile Users Worldwide
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