Google Takes Gold and Silver in Japan: NTT DoCoMo and KDDI
Soon 80 percent of the mobile phones in Japan will feature the Google search engine. That doesn’t necessarily mean Google will have an 80 percent share of all Japanese local mobile searches. Google partnerships with the #1 and #2 mobile carriers in Japan forces Yahoo and MSN to compete for the bronze. Here’s the math: [...]
Analog Cell Phone Network To Shut Down
In 2008 mobile carriers will begin shutting down the analog cell phone network. Starting February 19, 2008, cell phone carriers, including AT&T, Alltel and Verizon Wireless, will be turning off their analog networks. Other mobile carriers including Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile do not have analog networks and their customers will not be affected. read more [...]
Google Mobile Search G-Force: Android Trojan Horse?
Google Android software stack: Google’s gift to the telcos. Or Trojan Horse? Adam Soroca, GM of Jumptap, sees dangers in mobile operators inviting Google inside their castle walls. With Sprint sprinting to join the Open Handset Alliance and T-mobile mobilizing to ride the Android wave, who will own the valuable search real estate on mobile [...]
Google Frowns On Rogers Injection
Rogers Internet in Canada provides its subscribers with an advisory when they are approaching their account’s bandwidth limits, by injecting that notice into a web page they are viewing.The example of Rogers dropping a notice onto Google’s homepage began making the rounds yesterday. Some people called it a threat to net neutrality, which seems a [...]
Yahoo India Gets A Friend In Jagran Group
Dainik Jagran claims to be “India’s largest read daily with a total readership of 53.6 million readers.” And that means a lot of eyeballs could soon see the name Yahoo, as Yahoo India has launched a site with the Jagran Group. Hindi News and current affairs are the name of the game, and the two [...]
Verizon Changes Heart, Opens Up
Verizon reversed itself today by announcing the company will open its network to wireless devices, software, and applications not offered by the company. This comes just two months after the company sued the federal government to block openness requirements for the winner of the 700 MHz band of wireless spectrum. A change of heart? Maybe. [...]
Monday = Google Phone Day?
Current buzzings on the Internet suggest Google will have lots to say about its mobile phone strategies after the weekend.May we preface this by saying, yet again, Google Phone news won’t be interesting until we know more about the underlying network? Thanks. Wall Street Journal blogger Ben Worthen cited his mothership’s account of forthcoming news [...]
Google, Verizon Now Best Of Pals
All of that legal nastiness between Google and Verizon over the latter’s alleged attempts to alter the conditions of the forthcoming 700MHz spectrum auction has faded, as the two may team up for a Google Phone deal.Let the rampant cynicism begin about Google’s talks with Verizon and Sprint about those carriers offering a Google-powered mobile [...]
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