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Google Android Phone: 3G, $179, Amazon MP3, App Store, 1GB, Copy and Paste

in News on September 23, 2008 at 8:24 am PT

The first Android-powered handset debuted this morning at a T-Mobile launch event in New York. Manufactured by HTC, the G1 is largely as anticipated. Peter Chou, CEO of HTC describes it as “iconic,” but that’s being a bit generous, I think. In design, the device seems to borrow quite a bit from the T-Mobile Sidekick, and its touchscreen GUI clearly owes a thing or two to Apple’s iPhone.

Internet Explorer's Extreme Makeover

in News on August 28, 2008 at 11:00 am PT

Internet Explorer’s Extreme Makeover

in News on August 28, 2008 at 11:00 am PT

Devoid Android

in News on August 27, 2008 at 11:36 am PT

Google’s Android mobile platform will become commercially available before year end, just as the company promised. But with one caveat: It will lack some of the features Google first intended. Seems that in order to get Android out the door in time for the holiday shopping season, the company has been forced to defeature it.

Don’t Tell Your Boss, But There Is a Way to IM Despite Blocks

in Personal Technology on October 11, 2007 at 12:01 am PT

Internet-based instant-messaging services Meebo and KoolIM circumvent barriers to downloadable software and are far less vulnerable to viruses.
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'We're Not Doing a Mobile Phone' Added to Norton Anthology of False Denials

in News on August 2, 2007 at 8:32 am PT

In the lexicon of Google nondenial denials, “we’re not doing a mobile phone” is right up there with the great ones: “We don’t think it’s a competitor to Microsoft Office”; “We do not intend to offer a person-to-person, stored-value payments system“; and, of course, “We have no plans for an IPO.” According to people familiar [...]

‘We’re Not Doing a Mobile Phone’ Added to Norton Anthology of False Denials

in News on August 2, 2007 at 8:32 am PT

In the lexicon of Google nondenial denials, “we’re not doing a mobile phone” is right up there with the great ones: “We don’t think it’s a competitor to Microsoft Office”; “We do not intend to offer a person-to-person, stored-value payments system“; and, of course, “We have no plans for an IPO.” According to people familiar [...]

The Gphone: Exclusively From Sprint Nextel and Google?

in News on July 26, 2007 at 12:16 pm PT

In August 2005, Google acquired a two-year-old start-up called Android. Founded by Andy Rubin, the guy behind mobile-device maker Danger, Android was rumored to have been developing a mobile phone OS. Google never said much about the acquisition or its plans for Rubin, but he’s been on the company’s payroll ever since…

Alternatives to Instant Messaging

in Mossberg’s Mailbox on December 8, 2005 at 12:01 am PT

There’s no other major item most of us own that is as confusing, unpredictable and unreliable as our personal computers. Everybody has questions about them, and we aim to help. Here are a few questions about computers I’ve received recently from people like you, and my answers. I have edited and restated the questions a [...]