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Google lays out mobile future

News The online search giant has been ramping up its mobile applications for some time and unveiled its own mobile operating system, Android, last year. She added that, although Android is Google's platform, the mobile apps team sees it as just another...

Tags: web, apps, android, mobile

[13 May 2008]

Ignore social networks at your peril, retailers told

News Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets…  Google Android  Video: ID cards  BBC iPlayer  Galileo  CRM  Biometrics Retailers need to wake up to the potential of social networks in order to tap into the...

Tags: gartner, marketing, traffic, retailers

[02 May 2008]

Cool tech gets down with the kids

News Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets…  Google Android  Video: ID cards  BBC iPlayer  Galileo  CRM  Biometrics Social trends and the zeitgeist are more important than how good a new technology...

Tags: ipod, apple, virtual worlds

[23 Apr 2008]

Minority Report: iPhone, Android and the world in your pocket

Comment Aside from Apple, the Google-led Android consortium caught the imagination at the recent Mobile World Congress and has captured the headlines since its launch. Like Android and Microsoft's offering, Apple and the iPhone will have a huge influence...

Tags: smart phones, apple, android, iphone

[23 Apr 2008]

US no longer king of the PC?

News Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets…  Google Android  Video: ID cards  BBC iPlayer  Galileo  CRM  Biometrics Like the US, buyers in the region are moving toward more inexpensive portable PCs...

Tags: asus, dell, us, pc

[17 Apr 2008]

Microsoft smartens up for enterprise mobility

News Photos: Google Android comes out to play The advent of a Live Search plug-in for Windows Mobile 6.1 enables a range of location-savvy services so beloved of consumers, such as the ability to get directions to restaurants or find where particular...

Tags: microsoft, mobility, windows mobile

[02 Apr 2008]

Facebook for BlackBerry racks up a million hits

News Cheat Sheets  Cheat Sheet: Google Android  Cheat Sheet: Mobile TV  Cheat Sheet: Galileo  Video Cheat Sheet: Femtocells And commenting on the number of Facebook downloads, Mark Guibert, VP of corporate marketing at RIM...

Tags: facebook, blackberry, rim

[02 Apr 2008]

Mobile market kept afloat by Africa and Asia

News Check out silicon.com's latest mobile photo stories here…  Photos: Behind the scenes at Mobile World Congress 2008   Photos: Bling up your BlackBerry  Photos: When art meets tech - Nokia phone Morphs into view...

Tags: mobile, nokia, motorola

[01 Apr 2008]

Mobile phones: A public health time bomb?

News Check out silicon.com's latest mobile photo stories here…  Photos: Behind the scenes at Mobile World Congress 2008   Photos: Bling up your BlackBerry  Photos: When art meets tech - Nokia phone Morphs into view...

Tags: cancer, health, mobile

[31 Mar 2008]

EC examines Nokia bid for Navteq

News Check out silicon.com's latest mobile photo stories here…  Photos: Behind the scenes at Mobile World Congress 2008   Photos: Bling up your BlackBerry  Photos: When art meets tech - Nokia phone Morphs into view...

Tags: eu, ec, navteq, nokia

[31 Mar 2008]

Google pledges 'wi-fi on steroids'

News It does, however, envision the white spaces as a "unique opportunity to provide ubiquitous wireless access for all Americans" and a prime spot for use of mobile handsets running its open-source Android platform.

Tags: google, fcc, mobile, wi-fi

[25 Mar 2008]

Microsoft mobile - king of open world?

News Check out silicon.com's latest mobile photo stories here…  Photos: Behind the scenes at Mobile World Congress 2008  Photos: Bling up your BlackBerry  Photos: Bling up your BlackBerry  Photos: When art...

Tags: mobile, linux, iphone, microsoft

[20 Mar 2008]

EC: Let's raise our broadband game

News Check out silicon.com's latest mobile photo stories here…  Photos: Behind the scenes at Mobile World Congress 2008  Photos: Bling up your BlackBerry  Photos: Bling up your BlackBerry  Photos: When art...

Tags: broadband, ec, eu, telecoms

[20 Mar 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 14.03.08

Round-Up The move will put further pressure on the traditional handset manufacturers to keep up with the pace of innovation that Apple and Android are likely to set, which can only be a good thing for consumers.

Tags: web 2.0, iphone, airport, data breach

[14 Mar 2008]

Cheat Sheet: Google Android

Cheat Sheet However, Android is still in development - and it's an unproven tech - so there is an awful lot of 'waiting and seeing' to be done here. Before Android, Rubin had set up another mobile software company, Danger Inc, which was recently in the news...

Tags: android, mobile linux, google, mobile phone

[12 Mar 2008]

T-Mobile injects cash into femtocells

News  Mobile World Congress 2008 Diary - Sunday  Microsoft: One mobile device to rule them all  Android rocks up at Mobile World Congress  Why pay more abroad? EU demands mobile roaming cuts   Photos: Behind the scenes...

Tags: femtocell, mobile, t-mobile, coverage

[04 Mar 2008]

Top 10 mobile & wireless stories of the year

News Will Google's Android rock the mobile world? But the question of Android's impact - if any - on the mobile market is definitely worth looking into. The search giant did finally serve up a mobile offering for 2007 - not a phone but an open source...

Tags: mobile, wi-fi, wi fi, fi

[13 Dec 2007]

Will Google's Android rock the mobile world?

News Google CEO Eric Schmidt said a software development kit will be introduced next week and consumers can expect to see the first Android handsets on the market in the second half of 2008. This week, Google announced Android, a new software platform...

Tags: google, verizon, gphone, mobile

[06 Nov 2007]

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