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May. 7, 2008 at 7:47am by Greg Sterling
Google, Sprint, Cable Companies Join Forces On Wireless Internet Initiative
Sprint, the troubled, third largest US wireless carrier, has been mulling a spin off or sale of Nextel and has been the subject of takeover rumors itself. It had ambitious plans to roll out a national WiMax network that had seemingly been placed on the back burner. However, today the...
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Apr. 24, 2008 at 8:33am by Greg Sterling
Google Image Ads: Display Ads For Mobile
Yesterday Google announced mobile image ads. The ads are displayed on the mobile sites of publishers that are participating in AdSense for mobile (or that opt-in to the new program). Mobile image ads are created in users' AdWords accounts and require more or less the same type of setup as...
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Mar. 25, 2008 at 8:36am by Greg Sterling
White Spaces: Google's Second Bite At The Wireless Apple
Now that the 700MHz auction is over and Verizon and AT&T are the winners of the largest spectrum blocks, Google is placing renewed emphasis on its shared bid for a piece of unlicensed TV "white spaces." We've written about the so-called "white space coalition" previously....
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Mar. 24, 2008 at 7:53am by Greg Sterling
Google Deemphasizes Search In Experimental Mobile Interface
Spotted over the weekend by Garrett Rogers, Google has quietly introduced a new, experimental mobile interface called "LCB" that emphasizes browsing instead of search. Something of a radical approach for Google, which is synonymous with search, the site allows users to get to results in top "local search" categories such...
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Mar. 21, 2008 at 8:27am by Greg Sterling
Google Gets What It Wanted From 700MHz Auction
The US 700MHz auction is now over; the winners were announced yesterday. The spectrum is becoming available as television broadcasters make the mandated switch to digital signals in early 2009. The big winners (no surprises here) were US carriers Verizon and AT&T. Verizon bid more than $9 billion and won...
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Mar. 19, 2008 at 8:27am by Greg Sterling
Google Sees "Watershed Moment" For Mobile Usage
Google is now reporting that it is seeing a rapid increase in mobile Internet search and usage on several platforms. According to an interview with Reuters, Google mobile product manager Matt Waddell said, "We have very much hit a watershed moment in terms of mobile Internet usage. We are seeing...
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Feb. 12, 2008 at 7:38am by Greg Sterling
Mobile Musical Chairs: Google Befriends Nokia; Yahoo Snags T-Mobile Europe
Coming out of the Mobile World Congress this morning are two major mobile search (and probably ad) deals involving Google and Yahoo. Yahoo appears to have replaced Google as the search provider for T-Mobile in Europe, and it also appears to be ousting T-Mobile search partner Medio Systems in Europe...
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Feb. 11, 2008 at 10:58am by Greg Sterling
Chipmakers Demo Android Prototype Phones In Barcelona
This week the mega mobile conference 3GSM (now formally called the GSMA Mobile World Congress) is taking place in Barcelona, Spain. And true to the pre-conference hype and speculation, several mobile chip makers are showing off Android prototype phones. (Gizmodo has a "hands-on" video with a prototype from the conference.)...
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Feb. 5, 2008 at 2:41pm by Greg Sterling
Google Elections: Super Tuesday Map And Twitter Updates
Google's LatLong blog has two posts relevant to today's "Super Tuesday" US presidential primaries. The first is about a Super Tuesday primary map that presents a range of content, including video, on election results -- as Google has in the last couple of primaries. The map also features real-time Twitter...
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Feb. 1, 2008 at 7:18am by Greg Sterling
"Open Network" A Reality, C Block Of 700MHz Spectrum Hits $4.6 Billion "Reserve Price"
Yesterday the coveted "C Block" of the 700MHz spectrum, which will serve the entire US market, hit the FCC required minimum "reserve bid" of $4.6 billion. Google had promised to bid this amount to trigger the "openness provisions" imposed by the FCC. Effectively the rules now require that "any legal...
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Jan. 24, 2008 at 12:18pm by Greg Sterling
DoCoMo And Google In Japanese Mobile Partnership
Reuters and InfoWorld describe a new partnership between Japan’s largest wireless carrier, NTT DoCoMo, and Google. NTT DoCoMo is a member of the Google-sponsored Open Handset Alliance, as is Japan's number two carrier, KDDI, which is a Google partner as well....
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Jan. 15, 2008 at 8:06am by Greg Sterling
Wireless Spectrum Bidders Approved, Auction Begins January 24
The US Federal Communications Commission has approved 214 "qualified bidders" for the forthcoming 700MHz wireless spectrum auction. Among the bidders are Google and wireless carriers AT&T, Verizon, and MetroPCS. According to this Bloomberg report, the government expectation is that the spectrum licenses may raise as much as $15 billion....
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Jan. 14, 2008 at 10:10am by Greg Sterling
Google Loves The iPhone, But Google's Eric Schmidt Won't "Talk" About It
MacWorld starts today in San Francisco, and there probably won't be any announcement to equal the iPhone, which continues to reverberate across the mobile landscape. Google, in particular, continues to reap dividends from its suite of iPhone apps, a new version of which is launching today according to both the...
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Dec. 27, 2007 at 7:54am by Barry Schwartz
Google To Sign Deal With Japan's Largest Mobile Operator, NTT DoCoMo
Via TechCrunch, Japan's NTT DoCoMo to tie up with Google-sources from Reuters TechCrunch reports that Google is set to close a deal with NTT DoCoMo, Japan's largest mobile phone operator. The deal will make Google search the default search service for NTT DoCoMo's 48 million customers. In addition, Google Apps...
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Dec. 20, 2007 at 9:59am by Greg Sterling
FCC Accepts Google Airwaves, Inc's 700MHz Application; AT&T's Deemed Incomplete
When the applications were submitted to the FCC to bid in the forthcoming 700MHz wireless spectrum auction, it appeared that there were going to be a handful of major bidders: Verizon, AT&T, Cox Communications, Frontier Wireless, MetroPCS, and Google. In fact, there were 266 would-be bidders that submitted applications, although...
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Dec. 19, 2007 at 10:13am by Greg Sterling
Early Developers Giving Google's Android Mobile Platform Mixed Reviews
Dow Jones reports (shorter Wall Street Journal version here) that some software developers are experiencing considerable frustration writing for Google's much-touted Android mobile platform. "Functionality is not there, is poorly documented or just doesn't work. It's clearly not ready for prime time," said one of the developers quoted in the...
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Dec. 18, 2007 at 4:11pm by Greg Sterling
Send To TomTom: Google Maps Partners With Personal Nav Device Maker
TomTom, the maker of personal and in-car navigation devices that just won a bidding war ($4.2 billion, 2.9 billion euros) with competitor Garmin for digital mapping provider TeleAtlas, has announced a partnership with Google. Google Maps will now give users the option to send maps or business listings to TomTom...
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Dec. 5, 2007 at 9:15am by Barry Schwartz
Google Launches New iPhone Interface
I went to Google on my iPhone, and I saw a new interface. I then did some searches and saw that TechCrunch has a piece on it named Google Pre-Launches New iPhone Interface. Here are some pictures of the new interface from my iPhone:...
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Nov. 30, 2007 at 8:27am by Greg Sterling
WSJ: Google Will Bid For 700MHZ Wireless Spectrum
Google finally makes it official. After saying it would "probably" bid on the 700 megahertz wireless spectrum, then pulling back on that statement, it is diving in after all into the auction....
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Nov. 28, 2007 at 11:00am by Greg Sterling
Google Introduces New "My Location" Feature for Mobile Devices
Many mobile industry insiders and pundits have argued that when GPS becomes ubiquitous then "location based services" will really take off. The problem is: GPS doesn't always work, it isn't yet in every device, and isn't always enabled even if it is present. But the premise that passive location awareness...
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Nov. 27, 2007 at 10:33am by Greg Sterling
Verizon Wireless To Consumers: Bring Your Own Phone
It a potentially dramatic move, Verizon Wireless is saying that it will allow customers to use phones and applications that it does not specifically sell. As a practical matter that potentially means that a mobile consumer could buy any phone and use it with the Verizon network, so long as...
