Want to develop applications for Google’s new Android mobile phone platform and make a cool $275K?! Google has put $10M into a competition to do just that. The idea is to develop a lot of original cool apps that are highly functional as well as usable. The apps need to access core Android functionality like location-based services, accelerometer and always-on networking.
The smartphone market is heating up and Google is looking to the development community to create the killer app that’s going to make people switch to Android. Apple also recently announced that More»

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Tonight PBS covered the smart phone market, and asked for input from Andrew Seybold, a prominent expert on the mobile sector. However Seybold said something that really seemed questionable:
ANDREW SEYBOLD: As much as I respect Google, the wireless industry can’t be an extension of the Internet because wireless bandwidth is finite. It’s a fixed resource, and it is shared bandwidth. The more people who use it in a given area, the less data speed they have.Andrew, with all due respect - and considerable respect is due, I think you’ve missed something profound here. Sure, More»

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It is being reported by ValleyWag that the long awaited Googlephone will be making its debut next month and will run on any OS including the Google Android OS. As Google defines it, any phone running Android will be considered a Googlephone. The device will be dubbed the “Bug”.
In a related post, Steve Horowitz, Engineering Director at Google, was quoted as saying “there is actually no gPhone”. Sergey Brin describes Android as a new open source operating system and software platform for mobile phones which allows you to write services and software More»

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You read that right! Per Steve Horowitz, Engineering Director at Google, “there is actually no gPhone”. What is for sure though is Android. Sergey Brin describes Android as a new open source operating system and software platform for mobile phones which allows you to write services and software on mobile phones. Watch the video! For more on all things Android visit http://code.google.com/android/.
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Google calling! It is being reported that screenshots of the much anticipated Google Phone have been leaked. Based on screenshots of the app, the interface suggests that aside from basic phone capabilities, the gPhone provides:
-geo-location specific search for people and businesses-hours of business-reviews-proximity-mapping
Check it out.
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There has been so much talk about the Google GPhone (NASDAQ: GOOG), that I feel like I have one. Google has also assembled many of the requirements for a next generation internet mobile company such as mobile search, mobile maps, web based voice mail, voice enable directory service, mobile advertising and many other offerings that I am probably not aware of. So a device is not that much of a stretch. Google could give a struggling device manufacturer a significant boost in distribution. Google could offer free calls anywhere in More»

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