Articles tagged with: Os and Google

Google Shows Off New "Google Phone" - Confirms Gingerbread Release

..ol, Internet (VoIP/SIP) calling, improved copy/paste functionality and gyroscope sensor support. The phone goes on sale from next Thursday (16th Dec) in the USA through T-Mobile or Best Buy retailers, or in the UK from 20th Dec. via Carphone W more

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Skyhook Sues Google over Location Services in Motorola's Android Phones

..with a federal court in Massachusetts, USA, the company also alleges that Google caused it to lose a valuable partnership by unfairly having Motorola include Google's competing technology in its mobile phones. "There was a time when Google tried more

Google Targeting $10 Billion Per Year from Mobile Services

..e operating system that it is promoting. Although the OS is formally independent of Google, most smartphones come pre-loaded with Google supplied extras. By spreading Android, which is growing at a rate of 160,000 new handset activations per d more

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Google Shows Off Upgraded Android OS for Smartphones

..gainst Apple, which has bluntly refused to support the Adobe Flash format supported by most conventional web browsers, the Android OS will offer support for Adobe Flash within the Android Browser. Android 2.2 also delivers powerful new tools and more

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Survey Shows Android OS Roiling the Smart Phone Market

.. roiling the smart phone market, with Motorola's new Droid smart phone the biggest and most immediate beneficiary. Among respondents who currently own a smart phone, 4% say they're using Google's Android operating system - a 3-pt jump since our more

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Can Google's Chrome OS Challenge Windows in the Fast-Growing Netbook Market?

Google's new Chrome Operating System (os) represents a direct challenge to Microsoft's hegemony in the burgeoning market for netbook software, according to iSuppli. Google's Chrome os will launch in the second half of 2010 and will initially target netbook PCs. However, the os will not only run on netbooks based on Intel's X86 architecture microprocessors, but also those using ARM-based chips, clearly showing the operating system is targeted at very low-cost netbooks. more

Smartphones: the silver lining of the declining handset market

..d mobile operators focusing on two types of handset: those targeting the low-end and high-end segments. The end result is a quickening of the replacement of 2G in favour of high-end 3G handsets, and greater volumes of smartphones. Ovum expects more

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Google Epects 18 Android Phones by Year-End

..preloaded links to services such as Gmail or Google Calendar. The most detailed version will be known as the "Google Experience" and in exchange for tighter experience to the Google platform, will be allowed to carry the Google logo. more

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Google Sues Over Android Brandname

Google is involved in a lawsuit over the name of the Android os which the firm is backing as part of the Open Handset Alliance. A company, Android Data Corp. has sued the internet giant claiming that Google's use of the Android name could cause confusion as to which of the two firms is being referred to. more

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Apple Adds MMS and Copy/Paste to the iPhone

..panded search capability for all key iPhone apps, as well as Spotlight search across the iPhone or iPod touch. "The new iPhone OS 3.0 is a major software release packed with incredible new features and innovations for iPhone customers and d more

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