03/09/2010
Wall Street Journal – San Francisco Bureau
Google Inc. last month said it would provide ultrahigh-speed Internet connections for up to 500,000 people in the U.S. Now the search giant must deal with the challenging part: building the network and making sure there are services available to take advantage of it.
Since its ultrahigh-speed announcement last [...]
02/09/2010
IDG News Service – TAIPEI BUREAU
Microsoft and Google have turned to Taiwanese chipset vendor MediaTek to boost their traction in smartphones aimed at China and other emerging markets.
MediaTek has already developed a chipset and other hardware for Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 6 operating system and has sent the package, MediaTek hardware plus Windows Mobile software, [...]
01/19/2010
IDG – Online
Germany’s antitrust authority is awaiting a response from Google on three separate complaints filed recently, although the agency said no action is likely for some time.
The German Federal Cartel Office said it has received complaints from Ciao, a Microsoft subsidiary; a mapping company called Euro-Cities; and the German Newspapers Publishers Association.
The [...]
01/19/2010
Giga Om
Google this morning postponed the launch of two Android handsets in China in a clear indication that the company’s rift with Beijing threatens its booming mobile business. Meanwhile, the Nexus One has seen lackluster sales amid widespread complaints of technical glitches. So with Android’s future in China uncertain, and problems mounting with Google’s decision [...]
01/14/2010
Dow Jones Newswires – New York Bureau
NEW YORK (Dow Jones)–Google Inc.’s (GOOG) mobile aspirations in China, including the adoption of its Android mobile operating system, could hit a snag if the Internet giant decides to pull out of the country.
Google’s push to get into the smartphone business was driven by its desire to take [...]
01/13/2010
New York Times – Shanghai Bureau, The
SHANGHAI — If Google leaves China, the country will suddenly become even more dependent on its main homegrown search engine, Baidu.com. And while that is likely to benefit the Chinese company in the near term, analysts say it could bode poorly for the long-term development of the Internet in [...]
01/05/2010
TheStreet.com
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (TheStreet) — As promised, today Google (GOOG Quote) introduced what it calls the next step in mobile phones with its Nexus One phone. In a surprise move, it named No.1 telco Verizon (VZ Quote) as one of its future service partners.
The Nexus One will be available through Verizon sometime this spring [...]
12/17/2009
Register, The
Google has been in talks with at least one hardware manufacturer about a Google-branded Chrome OS netbook, according to internet rumor. And it only stands to reason. We now have the Googlephone. Why not the Googlenetbook?
Citing multiple unnamed sources, TechCrunch says that the Mountain View Chocolate Factory has sent an RFP, or “request [...]
12/16/2009
MarketWatch – Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The apparent plan of Google Inc. to produce a mobile phone under its own brand has unsettled the wireless industry, but the Web giant won’t find it easy to replicate the same success it’s achieved on the Internet.
Last weekend, the company issued Google-branded phones to some employees, fueling [...]
12/15/2009
CNET News.com
The Google phone will use what is probably the fastest smartphone chip on the planet and become the first non-Windows smartphone to tap into this kind of processing power.
The Google phone’s Snapdragon processor is one of the fastest smartphone chips.
Conspicious among the Google phone’s leaked specifications is the Snapdragon processor from Qualcomm. [...]
