Archive for the ‘Google’ Category

Update: In a press release and conference call today, Sprint and Clearwire have announced the formation of a new company that will be publicly traded on the NASDAQ exchange and operate under the Clearwire name.
Under the new agreement, Sprint would own 51% of the operator with 27% owned by current Clearwire shareholders, and the [...]

During the Wireless Innovations 2008 conference, T-Mobile USA vice president and general manager of the broadband and new business division Joe Sims has confirmed that the carrier’s first device based on the Google developed platform would ship in the 4th quarter of this year, and has officially joined the Open Handset Alliance along with network [...]

PhoneNews.com has previously, and comprehensively covered Sprint’s intentions to partner with several companies for its XOHM WiMAX network. Now other news sources have re-reported this information, brining it back to the front page of the mass media.
We originally broke the news on Sprint’s intentions to use WiMAX, as well as their partnerships with Fiber and [...]

With the race to release the first Android enabled device, High Tech Computer (HTC) announced that one of the mobile phones they are currently designing to run Google’s mobile operating system will be called the “Dream.”  It’s basic features will include a large touchscreen, a full QWERTY keypad that will either swivel out or slide [...]

On the heels of launching Google Search for the Series 60 platform last month, Google has launched the same Google Search application for Windows Mobile users.
Like the S60 version, the program installs a Google Search bar on the home screen and enables quick searches without needing to open up a browser.
The app is now [...]

The FCC’s auction for its potentially very lucrative 700 MHz slice of wireless spectrum in the United States has come to a close today.  Although the FCC will be keeping the winners of the auction under wraps for an unknown amount of time (including the winner of the highly sought-after open access C-block, which closed [...]

Following up on the recent announcement that Nokia and Google have agreed to integrate the aforementioned search technology into the Nokia Search client, Google has now launched a separate client for all S60 based devices.

Image courtesy of All About Symbian
The client places a Google Search bar on the homescreen for those models with a [...]

Nokia has announced in a press release that it has integrated Google Search into its Nokia Search software and will preload the software on the N96, N78, 6220 Navigator, and 6210 Classic while making the software available for as many as 100 countries and 40 languages later on.
Nokia Search provides users with the ability to [...]

Garmin, the company well known for manufacturing GPS receivers and solutions for navigation has now stepped up to the plate as a handset manufacturer with the Garmin nuvifone.
The nuvifone features a touchscreen display, autonomous GPS receiver, virtual keyboard, media player, full web browser, Google Search software, access to the Garmin Online real-time information service with [...]

Google has improved their Gmail interface for the Apple iPhone. The new version features Auto-complete composing, refreshing and faster load times. For those who have updated your iPhone to 1.1.3 and actively use Gmail, the update automatically converts your POP access to IMAP. In other words, any changes that you do in your [...]