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Google Sync for BlackBerry gets into your contacts

November 20th, 2008 · No Comments

If you’re a BlackBerry user or a prospective user, and also happen to be a Gmail enthusiast, you’re going to be a lot happier than you were yesterday, because Google’s just added over-the-air contact syncing to its Google Sync application. Previously, the app was only able to sync up calendars between the cloud and RIM [...]

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Report: G1 costs 10 percent less to make than iPhone

November 12th, 2008 · No Comments

(Credit: Corinne Schulze/CNET Networks)
When it comes to the next-gen phone wars, two handsets immediately come to mind: Apple’s iPhone and the G1 from HTC and T-Mobile, the first commercially available phone to run Google’s Android OS.

The G1 retails to new customers for 9, while the …
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Google Picks Big Android Fight With T-Mobile G1 Phone: Live Analysis (With Hands-on Review & Video!)

November 9th, 2008 · No Comments

The tech press loves two things: Big product launches and platform wars. Today, as T-Mobile and Google announced the G1, the first phone running Google’s Android mobile phone operating system, we got to see both.

The Rest Of The Story at Popular Mechanics [...]

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Google patches up Android jailbreak with RC30 update

November 8th, 2008 · No Comments

Filed under: Cellphones

As you may have noticed, Google doesn’t exactly seem to be hesitant about pushing out Android updates, and it looks like it’s now at it again, letting the new RC30 update slip out just days after folks finally figured out what the mysterious RC29 update actually did. This particular update is decidedly less [...]

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Google Picks Big Android Fight With T-Mobile G1 Phone: Live Analysis (With Hands-on Review & Video!)

October 31st, 2008 · No Comments

The tech press loves two things: Big product launches and platform wars. Today, as T-Mobile and Google announced the G1, the first phone running Google’s Android mobile phone operating system, we got to see both.

The Rest Of The Story at Popular Mechanics [...]

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Could Google’s Overhyped Mobile Domination Mean Trouble?

October 31st, 2008 · No Comments

Could Google’s Overhyped Mobile Domination Mean Trouble?
It wasn’t that long ago that Google seemed poised to take over the world. But with their stock down close to 50% this year and (gasp!) cutbacks on snacks in the cafeteria, now comes word that the mobile wagon the company had hitched itself to isn’t quite the iPhone [...]

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T-Mobile G1 Review: Android Lives Up to Its Promise, but Glitches Remain

October 30th, 2008 · No Comments

The first Google Phone! After years of anticipation, Google’s open-source Android operating system is finally here. Is the G1 an iPhone killer? We spent two weeks hanging with one to find out.

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Google Goes Mobile

October 30th, 2008 · No Comments

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Pimp Your Gmail With Latest Gadget Support

October 29th, 2008 · No Comments

Gmail has just introduced support for Gadgets which you can enable by going in Settings>Labs. This development implies two things, one that Google is now planning to do with Gmail what it couldn’t with iGoogle and the other thing being Google’s permissiveness to accept outsider gadgets into its one of the most used and loved [...]

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Good Effort, Moral Pygmies…

October 29th, 2008 · No Comments

While technologically and financially you are giants, morally you are pygmies.”
– Rep. Tom Lantos (D., Calif.), chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, to Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and General Counsel Michael Callaghan, Nov. 6, 2007

Yahoo’s public shaming before the House Foreign Affairs Committee last November apparently had quite an effect on Internet [...]

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