Today Google released an update to its Google Maps Mobile application, and has added support for Virtual GPS. Dubbed ‘My Location’, the new feature uses cell tower triangulation and talks to the towers that you are using at the time. It then displays this information as an approximate location on the map, allowing you to [...]
Google Maps mashups are always fun, and there’s a new one that seems a bit like Twittervision by letting you send an SMS with your location. GeoSMS is a site that lets you send a text message to their number, along with a message of some sort, and they overlay this on a Google Map. [...]
Just in case you missed it, definitely worth a look to see what they’ve been cooking: Sergey Brin and Steve Horowitz discuss the availability of the SDK, that it will be open source in the future, and demo applications on the Android platform.
Ah, now it begins. Now it starts. This is more like it. Google’s sticking it’s money where it’s mouth is and no doubt about to garner significant attention from the world’s developer geeks. This is the sort of thing that I’ve been wanting to see for years. More details below. Link: $10 Million Prize For [...]
So it’s a platform. We kind of new this. The chaps at Gizmodo have done a good job at rounding up what’s been announced so far with the gPhone. Useful primer at their site. Link: Gphone: Everything We Know About the gPhone, Android, and Open Handset Alliance The details on Google’s gPhone Open Handset Alliance [...]
Ok, so that headline isn’t entirely accurate. I’ve been tracking the Google GPhone for a while and, well, it’s been a good few days since I’ve blogged anything on it. That’s because it’s getting a weeeeee bit crazy out there. The stories are flying. And they *are* stories. We’re getting to the old-wives-tales level of [...]
Link: Google Mines Mobile Queries, Finds Longer Strings, More Searches, And More Clicks Gary Price at ResourceShelf points us to an intriguing article appearing in the IEEE Computer Society’s Computer Magazine about mobile search at Google. In the piece, two researchers at Google dissect and mine mobile query logs from WAP-based searches coming through a [...]
I’ve no idea how accurate this is… Link: Google’s Gphone all set for a worldwide launch IF NEWS is really true, this search engine giant is just two weeks away from the worldwide launch of its much puffed up Gphone. Google is positioning the concluding events on the mobile-phone project. The so-called GPhone is all [...]
Rumour, conjecture and base excitement. The Gphone dance continues with the Herald Tribune reporting that Gphone — as they understand it — is an operating system (based on Linux) and that the search engine giant won’t be releasing hardware into the wild. Link: With ‘phone’ project, Google has mobile ad dollars in its sights – [...]
Gphone rumours — or news masquerading as rumours — continue to fly around the web. Their possible entrance into the handset business is one that could continue to set cats amongst pigeons after the recent iPhone launch. Here’s the first news item I’ve come across that specifically mentions that a prototype Google handset exists. Link: [...]
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