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Motorola Adopts Google Android and Windows Mobile Exclusively
Up until this point, Motorola has been shipping millions of devices on it’s custom MOTOMAGX Mobile Linux platform as well as the Symbian UIQ platform. After announcing some disappointing 3Q losses, Motorola announced plans to move their entire device line to Google’s Android and Windows Mobile platforms exclusively, discontinuing development and support for the MOTOMAGX platform [...]
Continue reading...Hackers Already Working on Hacking T-Mobile G1
Friday, October 24, 2008
BoingBoing reports that folks on Freenode’s #android IRC channel are already getting down and dirty with the device, trying to unlock access to some of the device-level functions (like GPS) that currently require signed code to access: I hacked my camera’s firmware manually by using an exploit to cause it to execute arbitrary code – and [...]
Continue reading...Facebook: “Android sucks, it doesn’t matter”
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
TechCrunch reports that the lack of an Android Facebook app in the Android Market Place is not a mistake and you probably don’t want to hold your breath waiting. Apparently the bad blood between Google and Facebook started when Facebook chose Microsoft as it’s advertising partner; in and of itself, not that bad of a move. [...]
Continue reading...T-Mobile G1 Android 1.1 Update Tomorrow
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
For all the 10 trillion people that got T-Mobile G1 phones today, you will have an Android 1.1 update pushed out to you over the data network tomorrow. We have no idea how this will work for folks that are still in non-3G areas, it’s possible the phone will detect no 3G connection and prompt [...]
Continue reading...Google Celebrates Android Release with Giant Foam Android
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Hot on the heels of the Android open sourcing announcement by Google, celebration around the office looks to be amping up. Iliyan Malchev snapped this shot of Andy Rubin decorating what I think is the front lawn of Google with a giant foam Android Robot: First thing that popped in my head when I saw it [...]
Continue reading...Google Open Sources Android
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
It’s official, no more waiting, no more secret SDKs and top-secret government handshakes (ok, there never really was), but it’s still nice to hear that Google has officially Open Sourced Android. The preferred licensing for working with the Android platform is the Apache 2.0 license. For folks wanting to contribute directly to the platform you will [...]
Continue reading...What Google Engineers do for Fun: Computerized LEGO Art Project
Friday, October 10, 2008
What happens when you are really smart… like Google-lead-engineer smart, you move into a new place that has a big blank living room wall and you end up being bored one weekend? Well, I’ll tell you what I would do… I would order pizza, probably watch a movie, stare at the wall for a good [...]
Continue reading...Web 2.0: Content Delivery Monopolies for All! (Google, Amazon, Apple)
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
It was announced yesterday that YouTube (Google) is partnering with both Amazon and Apple to begin selling video games and music respectively. The idea is that content on YouTube identified as belonging to a certain video game or song would be associated with what amounts to a “Buy it Now” button that would take you over [...]
Continue reading...Syncing iPhone Contacts with Google Contacts using iTunes 8
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Apparently this popped up in iTunes 7.7 but I didn’t notice it until 8.0 and I haven’t seen anyone write anything up about it online. It looks like iTunes added the ability to sync to Google Contacts (thank the gods) from iTunes when syncing your iPhone (or iPod) with your computer. Unfortunately in 7.7 when the feature [...]
Continue reading...Gmail Labs Enabled for Google Apps
Friday, September 5, 2008
Back in June we reported about the launch of the handy new Gmail Labs experimental feature settings for Gmail. At the time the features weren’t enabled for Google Apps hosted Gmail accounts unfortunately, leaving those of us using Google Apps Gmail pouting silently. I just noticed today that Labs now seems to be enabled on Google [...]
Continue reading...First Google Android Phone: T-Mobile’s HTC Dream
Saturday, August 30, 2008
After the first crap-blurry video of the HTC Dream, Google’s first commercial Android-based phone getting close to release, we have been waiting with baited breath to see what the device will actually look and feel like. It looks like T-Mobile will be the first to roll out the phone this Fall along side the BlackBerry [...]
Continue reading...Gmail Down Again, 2nd Time in 3 Days
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Looks like after August 11th Gmail outtage things went down again today around 1:45pm PST. Even though Gmail typically offers a 99% uptime, for some reason the few times it’s down I want to tear my hair out. Update #1: 5mins later it seems to be up again… but this happened on the 11th as well, [...]
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