Google to China: Adiós?
Google’s all over Google News, more than usual. A handful of big stories you should know about including some related to phones but I’ll go with the censorship fight for now, an update on Chinagate which has heated up substantially in the past few days. To offer you the gist of this right now, just [...]
Google Maps Gets Updated With Bicycle Directions
If you are a biking nut like I am, this is some very cool news indeed. Google Maps has just released an update that adds Bicycle Directions and will be unveiling this new feature at the National Bike Summit in Washington, DC. Google says: “This new feature includes: step-by-step bicycling directions; bike trails outlined directly [...]
Google Analytics Goes Windows Mobile
For all you website owners who want to stay better connected with what is going on with your websites and sport a Windows Mobile Device, SynergeTech Solutions has just released a Google Analytics Application that will allow you to connect directly to the Google Analytics Sever and stay up to date on what is going [...]
Goog Sync Is Down – No ETA
If you use Google Sync to get your GMail then you’re probably not a happy camper today. This is the post from Google in their forums:
As many of you have noticed, Google Sync is having some difficulties due to an extended problem with one of our datacenters. This has been going on over the weekend, [...]
Abandon All Cabs and Existing Phones Ye Who Enters WP7
Microsoft’s Mobile Communications Business Director Aaron Woodman, when asked by CNET if people with phones running WM6.5 would be able to upgrade to Windows Phone 7 without buying a new device, said no: “I don’t know if any Windows Mobile 6.5 Device today meets those specifications.” He went on to discuss new hardware plans which [...]
Google Buzz Revisited Yet Again
I’m telling you, this thing is not just a gimmick to screw around with while you’re on the can (though it’s great for that too). Last weekend my ol’ lady and I were stranded in downtown Dallas because American Airlines sucks so remarkably at getting people to and from Santa Fe for their romantic getaway. [...]
Google Embraces Mobile
Google CEO Eric Schmidt put mobile at the heart of the Internet giant’s future in a special keynote at Congress late this afternoon.
Schmidt outlined how Google’s top programmers were now concentrating on mobile as their primary focus; he also pointed to recent acquisitions in the mobile space, notably AdMob.
Unveiling a new Google mantra – [...]
I’m Feeling A Groovy Buzz
Getting tired of the Google Buzz wordplay all over the headlines and blogs? Well it’s all over the place because, unsurprisingly, Google just unveiled something many people will pile onto even though there are plenty of companies whining about how they had this kind of idea years ago. Too bad for them that in their [...]
Goog Maps With a Little Buzz
Version 4.0 of Google Maps is out with Buzz. Buzz is Goog’s new social networking attempt. Buzz lets you:
Share a tip, make a recommendation, post a picture, or say what’s happening now and tag it with a place.
Find out what people are talking about (for example, a concert or upcoming traffic jam) by [...]
Microsoft’s Mobile Hail Mary
In an effort to escape my abyss of obscurity in the mobile software market, if I were Microsoft, to distance myself from my embarrassing mobile past I would commit at least a thousand developers to perfecting the next release (including one or two who are actually on the payroll and not some random ugly website [...]
