Google First Android Phone Released in New York
Yesterday, the highly anticipated launch of the Android phone took place in New York. Google's first-born “baby” phone was officially named G1, and is manufactured by HTC.
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24.9.2008 I Still Believe in a Microsoft Phone
Michael Gartenberg says I'm wrong about the Microsoft phone. Not so fast, Michael.
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27.11.2008 The Linux phone
With thousands of phones in the market, companies are looking for ways to cut costs to give the users the best overall experience, along with a cheap price tag to attract a user base.
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9.2.2009 Microsoft My Phone beta
Coming soon. Microsoft® My Phone syncs information between your mobile phone and the web, enabling you to.
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7.2.2009 Office 12 Coming to a Smart Phone Near You
From Microsoft Watch:
Office 12 Beta 1 is due to hit any day now. We still don't know which pieces of the next-gen Office family will go to testers, or even how many Office 12 SKUs are likely to debut when the product goes gold in the latter half of next year.
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15.11.2005 Samsung SPH-G1000 Gaming Phone
Samsung has recently launched the SPH-G1000 and SCH-G100 gaming phones in Korea. These phones are powered by powerful industry-leading 3D accelerator and vibration capability, make them quite promising for gamers. Controls which include a dedicated gaming joypad and a multi-key which operates in 8 directions are ergonomic and comfortable. For more detail, check out the specs below.
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24.11.2005 First Android phone in stores today and tomorrow
While I like the fact that T-Mobile let us existing customers pre-order the T-Mobile G1 the day it was announced last month, the benefit of pre-ordering seems to have lost that huge advantage I was thinking we were gaining.
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21.10.2008 Microsoft, MCI Plan PC-To-Phone Service again
Microsoft and MCI said Monday they'll soon offer a service that lets customers place calls from their personal computers to regular phones. But the service will permit only outbound calls at first, even as rivals Yahoo and America Online allow instant messaging users to receive calls from conventional phones as well as to call out.
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13.12.2005 Microsoft, MCI plan PC-to-phone service
VoIP service will allow with outbound calling during tests
Microsoft Corp. and MCI Inc. said Monday they'll soon offer a service that lets customers place calls from their personal computers to regular phones.
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14.12.2005 Samsung To Release 10 Megapixel Camera Phone
Samsung Electronics will put a 10-megapixel camera phone on the market in South Korea shortly. The mobile phone was first shown at Cebit in Germany in March this year and was originally due to launch in the second quarter.
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11.10.2006 Microsoft clarifies WGA Notifications "phone home"
Microsoft responds to "WGA Phones home" issue, on the MSDN blog.
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9.3.2007 Zune phone? Ballmer says focus is Windows Mobile
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer answered questions Thursday night at a USA Today CEO Forum on the University of Washington campus, and at one point interviewer David Lieberman of USA Today asked about Microsoft's plans for a Zune phone.
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26.4.2007 Microsoft unveils hardware for Web phone push
Microsoft Corp. introduced on Sunday phones, headsets and other devices to work with its software that aim to replace the traditional office phone and deliver e-mails, instant messages and phone calls over the Internet.
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14.5.2007 Microsoft Wins 500,000 Phone-Software Order
Microsoft Corp. won its biggest-ever contract for mobile-phone software, an order from the U.S. Census Bureau that covers 500,000 handsets.
Microsoft, the world's biggest software maker, plans to unveil the deal today, general manager Scott Horn said in an interview.
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5.4.2006 Can owning a Wi-Fi Skype phone land you in jail?
A man in London was arrested for using an open Wi-Fi network from someone’s unsecured broadband link from a nearby house. Similar arrests have happened in the US and this makes me wonder: Can owning a Wi-Fi Skype phone land you in jail?
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23.8.2007 Google Links Blog Search to Google News
Some time over the weekend Google put links to Google Blog Search on the front page of Google News and at the end of each news search results page.
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24.10.2006 Google Chrome - Web browser from Google
Google has released the very first beta of their new web browser, Google Chrome. Chrome is a browser that, for now at least, is focused on offering a full browsing experience within a minimalistic user interface.
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2.9.2008 Put Windows Live on your Windows Mobile phone
Windows Live for Windows Mobile is now available to download for your Windows Mobile phone. Windows Live for Windows Mobile lets Windows Mobile users sync their email from Windows Live Hotmail as well as their Windows Live Contacts.
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14.5.2008 Can Microsoft Out-Google Google?
It aims to grab more of the search market with a new slew of search services that copy, and try to build on, Google's approach.
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13.9.2006 Firefox 1.0.7 Released
Firefox 1.0.7 was just released today. It's said that the only updates for this minor version change are security related.
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CommunityServer 2.0 Released!
This one might not be directly related to Microsoft - but this is related to the site ;). Bink.nu is powered by CommunityServer - an awesome web platform that runs on ASP.NET! CommunityServer 2.0 runs many Microsoft websites - sites like TheHive, Channel9, Mix06, TheSpoke. microsoft -
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20.2.2006 WSUS 3.0 Released!
A month earlier then expected WSUS 3.0 is released to web!
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1.5.2007 WindowBlinds 6 Released
Stardock has released the highly anticipated WindowBlinds 6 today. WindowBlinds is a utility that allows users to change the look and feel of the Windows desktop experience by applying skins to the user interface.
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3.10.2007 Firefox 1.5 RC2 released!
Mozilla has just released Firefox 1.5 RC2 (Release Candidate). This release contains many bugs (about 36 fixes) over the previous RC. If no critical issues are found, then this is 1.5 final, otherwise there will be some more fixes before final, with possibly another RC release.
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Firefox 1.5 Final Released
Firefox hit its second major milestone Tuesday with the release of version 1.5, arriving just over a year after the alternative browser debuted at 1.0. The update sports Mozilla's new Gecko 1.8 rendering engine to speed up Web surfing, along with a myriad of other fixes and improvements.
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29.11.2005 Firefox 3.0 Alpha released!
Today Firefox 3.0 Alpha was released to the public even before Firefox 2.0 has been released.
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9.4.2006 Nintendo's Wii is Released
Nintendo released their own next generation system, the Wii, earlier this morning. While the system wasn't as hotly anticipated as Sony's Playstation 3 (meaning there were no armed robberies and riots involved), there are many gaming fans excited to get their hands on the Nunchuk controller and, for a comparably measly $250, who can blame them?
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19.11.2006 Live Messenger 8.1 will be released soon
Internal sources at Microsoft have recently revealed that the upcomming Windows Live Messenger 8.1 will be released to the world on the 25th of January via the Live Ideas page.
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20.1.2007 Deployment 4 Beta 3 Released
Deployment 4 is the code name for the next version of Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) 2007 and unifies the tools and processes required for desktop and server deployment into a common deployment console and collection of guidance.
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17.9.2007 Windows DreamScene released!
In early July, I wrote about The Ultimate Team’s intention to ship the remaining promised Ultimate Extras (DreamScene and the remaining Language Packs) by the end of the summer.
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25.9.2007Google phone on the way?
Everything up to this point has been a warm-up for something big happening at Google. The Android operating system from Google has seen its growth
increase with the launch of such devices as the Verizon Droid and the Motorola Cliq. But reports are now surfacing of something bigger on the horizon
for both Google and Android. There are rumors of a new Google phone that isn't just another re-branded handset on a major cellular network. This
new device will reportedly be a VOIP handset that allows you to make calls using the Google Voice service.
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21.11.2009WSJ: Google Phone Within Two Weeks?
Google is apparently close to unveiling its phone platform within the next two weeks, but still has the considerable hurdle of convincing carriers to
sign over some of the control of the phone itself...
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30.10.2007Google Trials Search-by-Phone
Google may have an answer for
those tired of paying for
expensive 411 calls from their
cell phone: Google Voice Local
Search, which goes by the
nickname Goog-411. The
service, currently in testing
on the search company's Labs
site, makes local business
searches accessible via the
phone...
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10.04.2007Possible Google Phone Within 2 Weeks
Google is apparently close to unveiling its phone platform within the next two weeks, but still has the considerable hurdle of convincing carriers to
sign over some of the control of the phone itself.
While Google will provide many of the services which will come on the phone -- such as
its search, Maps, YouTube, and Gmail services -- the platform on which those applications are built will be completely open, right down to the
operating system itself. This is a dramatic shift from what is available currently. Most carriers and phone manufacturers lock most of the code down,
making it relatively difficult to build new applications without either deals with the carriers or manufacturers themselves.
Only Microsoft
offers anything close to what Google is going to do, through Windows Mobile. It took Apple some four months after it released the iPhone to finally
agree to open up the device to third parties, and other manufacturers and carriers offer even more limited third-party support.
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31.10.2007Android phone may have Google ads, but no Exchange support
With Google still touting the first Android phone for late 2008, reports state the forthcoming HTC "Dream" phone might lack support for
Microsoft Exchange, and further, that it will come with Google's advertising software pre-installed...
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19.08.2008Google intros an unlocked 'developer's' G1 model for global use
Google is now offering an unlocked version of HTC's Android-based G1 phone which can be used almost anywhere. Priced at $399, the phone also contains
features geared to advanced developers...if you don't mind its shipping costs...
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10.12.2008Rumor: HTC & Vodafone to make Google Android phone
Word has been spreading around the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona that Google will tomorrow (Tuesday) announce the second phone to be manufactured
that runs on its Android mobile operating system. According to reports, the phone will be manufactured by HTC and available in Europe exclusively on
the Vodafone network. The G2, also known as the HTC Magic or HTC Pioneer, is expected to feature WiFi, GPS and HSPA connectivity, contain a 3.2
megapixel camera (although without a flash), and feature an on-screen keyboard - available through Android's "Cupcake" update - unlike the
previous T-Mobile G1 phone which has a physical slide-out keyboard.
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17.02.2009Google gives phone numbers to San Francisco's homeless
Through its Grand Central subsidiary that it acquired last year, Google will provide phone numbers to homeless people in San Francisco by working with
the city's shelters...
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29.02.2008Google sidesteps mobile reports
Google has refused to deny
mounting speculation that it
is working to produce its own
brand mobile phone.
Reports suggest
that the web giant is
developing a series
of"GPhones", centred on its
mobile services, such as
search, e-mail and maps.
In a
statement, Google said it was
working with carriers, phone
makers and content providers
to "bring its services to
users everywhere".
The firm would not
say if its efforts included
plans for a handset.
The Google
statement said: "What our
users and partners are telling
us is that they want Google
search and Google applications
on mobile, and we are working
hard every day to deliver
that." ..
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03.08.2007Nokia Puts Music Phone on Hold
N91 phone will be released
next year to allow for
inclusion of Windows DRM
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23.09.2005Helio Taps Google Maps for GPS Phone
Helio on Thursday unveiled its
first GPS-enabled phone, which
would allow users to track
their location, or the
location of their friends via
a Samsung-produced handset and
Google maps...
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09.11.2006Google Opens Gmail Service to Public
When Google unveiled its instant messaging client yesterday, there was only one problem: Google Talk requires a Gmail account, which has been invitation-only since its beta debut in 2004. This changed on Thursday, however, as Google opened Gmail to anyone in the United States with a mobile phone...
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26.08.2005Google: Android-based HTC Dream may not be alone for long
Hot on the heels of FCC approval of HTC's "Dream" phone, Google has hinted to BetaNews that the "Dream" isn't the only Android phone
already under way...
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19.08.2008Pictures of Garmin phone released
Just under a year ago Garmin announced they were going to release their first try in the mobile phone market with the nuvifone, they said that the
device will have a touch screen, Internet browsing and a personal navigator which is what Garmin is mainly known for. Cliff Pemble the COO of Garmin
said "The nüvifone is an all-in-one device offering unmatched integration of utility and function in a single mobile device," which could be
true but if you look at the iphone it already offers that but he went on to say "This is the breakthrough product that cell phone and GPS users
around the world have been longing for — a single device that does it all.".
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04.01.2009Google Turns Its Hardware Manufacturing Over To Dell
Google, long rumored to be
getting into the hardware
business, has finally gotten
out of it, as least as a
manufacturer.
While
whispers about a Google phone,
Google chips, and Google PCs
continue to tantalize
consumers, the search company
said on Thursday that it had
recently partnered with Dell
to manufacture the Google
Search Appliance (GSA),
fulfilling a deal disclosed
last summer.
Dell
began trumpeting Google as a
customer several weeks ago
with an ad campaign aimed at
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23.06.2007Google Goes Mobile with
Blogger, News
Google has linked up with
phone manufacturer Sony
Ericsson to deliver a mobile
Web log application that
integrates with the search
giant's Blogger service. In
addition, Google on Tuesday
unveiled a special version of
Google News tailored to the
small screens of cell phones...
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28.02.2006The Achilles' heel in Google's phone plan
Google could become a partner to mobile phone makers ... but only if the company can force itself to beg, beguile, and bluff, says CNET News.com's
Michael Kanellos.
Can Google grovel?
Probably not well, at least not initially, and that could become
a major problem in its plans to create a mobile phone platform that will compete with Microsoft, Research In Motion, and Apple. Technically, a
subsidiary called Android will oversee the project, but it's an appendage of the big G.
The problem is that Android (and by
extension Google) will inherently be in a subservient position to the carriers and mobile phone makers. The carriers own the direct contracts with the
customer. The carriers and the handset makers as the customers, meanwhile, can pick and choose which software layers to include in their phones. Most
likely, they will work with all of the big platforms and chronically play them off against one another.
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14.11.2007Google Opens Gmail Signups Further
After opening its formerly
invitation-only Gmail webmail
service to anyone with a
mobile phone in August 2005,
Google removed that
requirement Wednesday. Now,
anyone can signup for a Gmail
account by creating a Google
Account...
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07.02.2007Google Reformats Web Sites for
Phones
With no Portable Google
Machine on the horizon, Google
is providing a new option for
mobile phone users looking up
a quick answer to their query:
automatically reformatting the
top search result for small
screens. The page's layout is
translated through Google's
servers and broken up into
smaller pieces...
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24.02.2006Microsoft My Phone First Impressions
Microsoft unveiled its new service called My Phone, a service to sync text messages, photos, video, contacts and more to the Web, at the Mobile World
Congress. The My Phone service helps users to automatically upload photos and video from their Windows phone directly to the My Phone service. The My
Phone service is currently available in a limited invitation-only beta Once you get access to the My Phone service, you can download and install the
My Phone installer cab to your Windows phone.
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