The government of India’s been working on a $35 education tablet. The government official heading up the project appeared on The Gadget Gurus, a show that airs on India’s NDTV. It’s a very interesting discussion and big promises are being made. Over the next couple of years, India hopes to ship a million of them. [...]
I could be catty and snarky and say that it looks like other Tablet/Slate makers are not only playing “me too” in trying to imitate Apple’s iPad, but also do so on the spinning PR front. Maybe I just did. Anyway, Laptop Mag, who broke the story on Augen using an unlicensed build of Android [...]
Guessing someone at Kmart isn’t going to be happy about this. Google has announced that the makers of the $150 Augen GenTouch 78 Tablet is using a pirated version of Android. The Tablet/Slate caused quite a bit of a stir when it was surprisingly announced and there have even been a few reviews of the [...]
Harry McCracken of Technologizer Road an interesting article about the state of third–party application development for Windows Phone 7. If Microsoft wants to win, or even compete, in the smartphone space, one of its biggest challenges is going to be building up a large and high-quality developer community. Harry’s had a chance to see rough [...]
Magazines? What are those? We are living in a time when digital media reigns supreme. If you’re like me, you likely subscribe or follow several blogs to get your daily fill of news and information. If you want to know the news before it is on television, you no doubt follow blogs. The way we [...]
Fueled by reports that Google and Verizon may be approaching a deal among themselves in talks with the FCC regarding how services are delivered via broadband, in the Net Neutrality debate is heating up again. A quick primer on Net Neutrality (and I mean quick and simple considering the complexity of the issues): Essentially proponents [...]
Eric Schmidt had lots of things to say yesterday at the Techonomy conference. One thing he commented upon was the future of the technology revolution and some of his comments can be filed in the “too big to wrap my brain around” section. According to Schmidt, from the dawn of civilization until the year 2003 [...]
Matt Burns at Crunchgear seems to think that there is a real possibility that the iPad may have preemptively killed the US Tablet market. I have to say I agree with him and also disagree. Here’s why. Flash back to CES2010 and “The Year of the Tablet/Slate.” Everyone and their second cousin was coming out [...]
If you use Google’s Chrome browser, you can now drag and drop attachments to your desktop from your browser. This is certainly a handy tool to have if you receive a lot of attachments. Awhile back, Google added an easy way for users to drag attachments into an email for both Firefox and Chrome, but [...]
Numbers, we got numbers! Headlines blare! Analysts analyze. And PR hacks go to town trying to spin the latest data into the latest trend. Yesterday was a day for numbers in the mobile tech bazaar and while they offered some interesting tidbits, they also offered a window into just how tricky it is to use [...]
Microsoft COO Kevin Turner is out promoting Windows Phone 7, stating that Microsoft will be back in the game come this fall. Some have declared that the only two viable players in the smartphone market are Android and iPhone, but Turner thinks otherwise. He correctly called Microsoft’s lack of a competitive smartphone operating systeem a [...]
Just a few months ago Google kicked off sales of the Nexus One over at Google.com/phone. A few days ago Google announced that it received its last shipment of Nexus Ones and now the device is officially sold out. The Google Nexus One was a very appealing device and probably would’ve ended up with one [...]
I’m a big fan of Google Voice and even gave it a Notebooks.com Editor’s Choice award when I reviewed it earlier this year. But the service has been cause for some embarrassment. I recently set up Google Voice for my father and he got a very odd text message. Google Voice generally does a decent job [...]
I noticed an item this morning or yesterday that said that Microsoft’s Live Messenger app had been downloaded over a million times. That got me to thinking a bit. As someone who is happily platform agnostic I find that good news. Folks who like Messenger and who use an iPhone aren’t limited by some sort [...]
Google Voice is now open to anyone with a U.S. phone number. The free service was previously offered as an open viral beta. While the service isn’t perfect, it’s an indispensable tool that makes my mobile lifestyle much easier. If you don’t already have a Google Voice number I highly recommend heading over to Google.com/voice. The service [...]
It’s time for some conversation. Yesterday some tensions that we on the GBM team think have been bubbling for awhile boiled over in the comments to this post. So, I’d like to address them. It’s not just addressing the comments, it is more about addressing the mission of GBM, how I see that mission, clearing [...]
There are two tasks, among many, that I use my iPad for throughout the day that I’m still searching for Apps that make those tasks easier and more enjoyable. One is reading feeds, the other is using Twitter. Two new Apps popped up the end of this past week that, while not perfect, have quickly [...]
First, let me just say that I’m not a huge fan of the whole Chrome OS or whatever OS that lets you do all of your work strictly through a browser. I see the benefits, but I don’t see this as overly practical in the long run. For many I’m sure it will be, but [...]
Some folks just don’t like change. Which is strange given how fast things change in the world of tech. Last night Google started and experiment, adding photo artwork to its previously spartan home page. You know, the one with the Google logo and a search box. It gave the Google home page a decidedly Bing [...]
Google’s Android has been taking a rap for some time now because of fragmentation. You know fragmentation. It’s when there are multiple handsets by multiple makers, each of which has to tailor the OS to their hardware. This leads to multiple versions of the OS out there and that creates challenges for App developers who [...]
As a Verizon Wireless subscriber for over five years, I’ve had essentially no problems with their wireless service. My experience with customer service, on the other hand, has had its share of bad moments, but I’m happy overall. I would consider myself a satisfied customer except for one thing. I wanted the iPhone. Like many [...]
Google has been hinting at changes to its search indexing for awhile now. They finally boosted the caffeine index and have announced Caffeine their new method of searching the world’s information on the Internet. Supposedly the aim is to bring you more info sooner when you search for a topic. Our old index had several [...]
Watching the Tablet/Slate landscape these days is like watching a classic western where the town folks slowly realize that the new shooter in town might take out the bad guys that they have been bowing to all these years. The script is always the same. You get one or two good citizens who get it [...]
Google is celebrating the 30th anniversary of Pac-Man by not only patterning today’s Google Doodle after the game maze, but also making the Doodle a playable game. If that’s not crazy enough, it’s playable on handhelds using swipe control!
Google landed some big hits against Apple yesterday at their I/O developer conference. Reading through the narrative coverage, you’d think they were the only two companies that matter, which leads me to ask, whatever happened to Microsoft?
The Google I/O conference was destined to be full of news and it was/is. Google TV, the next version of the Android OS-Froyo, web based music, an app store for web apps, a new video codec for HTML5-VM8, and other things Google is promising for the future. And while the ongoing spats between Google and [...]
Google is making a play at Apple’s stronghold. Not the iPod, nor the iPhone or iPad, but iTunes. Music purchasing is coming to Android Marketplace, and it’s being backed up with seamless ways to sync and stream from your PC. And they’re making it even easier to buy and install apps.
Google I/O is the place to be for all things Android today. At the developer conference keynote, Google detailed the key features of Android 2.2 Froyo, which include Adobe Flash 10.1 support, a faster web browser, tethering and mobile hotspot support, and storing apps on external cards.
Google’s I/O Conference was sure to bring news and it did on a number of fronts. One of those was a curious preview of what Google is calling the Chrome Web Store. It’s a curious announcement in some respects because the apps Google is talking about offering are web apps. Apparently the Chrome Web Store [...]
Our friends from Netbooknews.com just published a video of a prototype slate Android device. It’s apparently an NVIDIA reference design that utilizes second generation Tegra graphics. As you can guess, this 8.9″ slate falls into the content consumption device category. NVIDIA is showing off the device playing Backbreaker, a football game, at Google I/O.
GM announced they will give us a sneak peek at OnStar’s mobile app at Google I/O developer conference that will let you monitor the stats of your gas-electric Chevrolet Volt from your mobile device, telling you when you need a charge, letting you schedule it as needed, and more.
Very funny, and most likely because it is probably being worked on as we speak. Keep in mind the world things it can advertise anything and thereby keeps promising us free, free, free, if we’ll digest all those ads. Well this Onion parody points to Whisper Ads on the Google Phone. Yes, the phone listens [...]
The privacy debate comes up about as often as, well, about as often as Facebook changes its methods of sharing your data. This time around though Facebook’s changes have provoked questions in the mass media and of course when that happens, firestorms usually ensue. Google is taking some knocks for admitting that its Street View [...]
Google announced that it will soon stop selling the Nexus One online and will work with wireless carriers to offer a better buying experience. Uber-geeks might be willing to purchase expensive smartphones sight unseen, but most people want to try a phone out before using it. It’s an important choice and something phone buyers have [...]
Microsoft is taking the official wraps off of Microsoft Office 2010 today and while its Web apps take aim at the Cloud computing users out there, it is also taking aim at Google and its Google Docs. Yesterday Google launched a preemptive PR salvo at Microsoft saying that Office 2010 works seamlessly with Google’s cloud [...]
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Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE Review: A Worthy Successor to the Original (Video)
When Sprint had debuted the original WiMax-capable HTC EVO 4G nearly two years ago, it was an instant hit on the Now network. Not only was the HTC EVO 4G the first 4G smartphone in the world taking advantage of Sprint’s then speedy WiMax network, but it brought some new features and pizzazz to the [...]
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Google Search App iPhone and iPad Update Looks Beautiful (Video)
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