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Google announces its mobile phone plans

There's a lot going on, but here goes nothing: Google PR : A broad alliance of leading technology and wireless companies today joined forces to announce the development of Android, the first truly open and comprehensive platform for mobile devices. Google Inc., T-Mobile, HTC, Qualcomm, Motorola and...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 11-05-2007
PCs break the $200 barrier

Gary "crazy guy" Krakow takes a look at a cheap new PC. Or does he? The real story here, actually, is that this thing is running a Google-oriented version of Ubuntu called gOS. That makes it much more interesting than just the low-ball pricing: Beginning today, Wal-Mart is selling a brand new...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 11-02-2007
WSJ: Expect Google Phone announcement within in two weeks

The Wall Street Journal reports that the long-rumored Google Phone is happening: Google Inc. is close to unveiling its long-planned strategy to shake up the wireless market, people familiar with the matter say. The Web giant's ambitious goal: to make applications and services as accessible on cellphones...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 10-29-2007
Sync your Gmail inbox across devices with free IMAP

The Gmail blog talks up yesterday's release of IMAP for Gmail: As some of you know, IMAP is the best way to access your email from multiple devices (e.g. phone or desktop). It keeps the same information synced across all devices so that whatever you do in one place shows up everywhere else you might...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 10-25-2007
Google quietly adds IMAP support to Gmail

I'm not sure exactly when it happened, but Google has quietly added IMAP support to Gmail. That's very interesting, though I'm pretty sure it won't help anyone (like me) hoping to access their server-based Labels views (Google's implementation of virtual folders using live database...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 10-24-2007
Microsoft exec: Desktop application software is not dead

In a complete shocker, a top executive at the world's top maker of desktop application software says that desktop application software is not dead. IDG News reports: A top Microsoft executive defended desktop application software, the source of the company's revenue for three decades, arguing...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 10-23-2007
Updated Gmail for mobile application

Gmail Blog : We just released a new version with some updates that you can get by pointing your phone's browser to http://gmail.com/app. The new version works on most phones that are Java ME enabled. For BlackBerry devices, you can continue to download the previous version from the same site. The...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 10-19-2007
Google vows to increase Gmail storage limit

A better headline would be, "Google increases Gmail storage limit, pledges quicker storage updates," but whatever: Computerworld has the story: People using Google Inc.'s Gmail service are sucking up storage space faster than the company can add it. Google said on Friday it is speeding...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 10-14-2007
What gPhone?

Miguel Heft of The New York Times has some interesting info about Google's so-called gPhone: Google is not building a phone. The company is building a mobile phone operating system, as well as what technologists call a “reference platform,” a set of specifications for how hardware makers would build...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 10-08-2007
Windows Live Contacts

I've been writing (and, on the podcast, talking) about my ongoing move to Web-based services a lot lately, but one thing I've had trouble settling on is an online contacts management system. (As noted in What I Use , I've had to temporarily use a local Outlook-based contacts list.) Despite...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 09-28-2007

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