Google plan sees phones by mid-2008: report
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Web search leader Google Inc is expected to announce advanced software and services enabling handset makers to bring Google-powered phones to market by mid-2008, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
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Google does not expect to maintain the same pace of revenue growth it has recorded over the last several quarters, the company acknowledged Thursday in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
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Microsoft Corp.  on  Thursday forecast another year of losses at its mobile phone,  games and device business before turning a profit in the  business year ending June 30, 2008.
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Manufacturers focus on mobile standard, expected to hit the market next year.
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Perhaps it's not a handset but a slice of the wireless spectrum that Google is eyeing.
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Blog: With full leasing ownership of the 700MHz spectrum, Google will try to effectively cripple the cell phone industry.  Before you scoff and say this is a bunch of garbage, consider this: Google will only offer the $4.6 billion if the government agrees to th
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Mad4MobilePhones looks at a patent filed by Google which is based on predicting phone calls and actions based upon time and location and may be part of the upcoming Google Phone project. The patent, Nonstandard locality-based text entry, was filed in 2005.   This patent is truly groundbreaking in what the application could do. Imagine that you are [...]
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South Korean mobile phone maker Pantech is expected to supply more than 3.5 million handsets to U.S. mobile operator Cingular Wireless in 2007, up from 1 million estimated for this year, a local media report said on Thursday.
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(InfoWorld) - Spending on mobile search and display advertising will skyrocket in the coming years in the U.S., finally making cell phones a viable vehicle for this type of online marketing, according to research firm The Kelsey Group. Spending is expected to total $33.2 million this year and grow at a compound annual rate of 112 percent through 2012, when it will hit $1.4 billion, Kelsey Group analyst Matt Booth said. This means that major players in online advertising,Â such asÂ Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo, as well as the major mobile carriers, will battle it out in a market that is uncharted territory. "Between now and 2012, the opportunity [in this market] is wide open," Booth said. As the market morphs from tiny into sizable, Internet companies and carriers are learning as they go, figuring out how to compete and partner with each other, win over advertisers, and better serve mobile subscribers, he said. The boost in spending follows technology advances, such as the increasing availability of mobile broadband services, the expansion of GPS capabilities, and improvements in device usability at the hardware and software levels, he said. For Google, the broadening of the mobile channel for search advertising comes at a good time because it currently has ad inventory backed up awaiting increased traffic, Booth said. It's no secret that mobile is the next big frontier for Internet services and advertising, although the market's explosion has been prematurely predicted in the past. Kelsey Group expects mobile Internet users to grow at a 20 percent compound annual clip in the U.S. through 2012, when there will be almost 92 million people going online via their cell phones. Previous unfulfilled expectations haven't discouraged Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and other big Internet companies from adapting in recent years their PC-based online services like e-mail, instant messaging, photo managers, and search engines for mobile devices. Yahoo, for example, has a suite of mobile services and applications called Yahoo Go for Mobile 2.0, while Google offers mobile versions of several services, including Gmail, Maps, YouTube, Picasa, Blogger, and search. Meanwhile, Microsoft's mobile offerings include Windows Live Hotmail, search, Spaces, and Messenger. Beyond adapting services to mobile devices,Â Google has also expressed interest in bidding in an upcoming U.S. Federal Communications Commission auction of 700MHz wireless spectrum set for January. There have also been rampant rumors thatÂ Google is developing a cell phone, but the company hasn't officially acknowledged those plans.
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Google is supposedly in serious talks with Verizon Wireless about using its upcoming Google-powered phones on its network, but a deal between the two companies is pretty unlikely.
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Mobile phone users around the world  will spend $1 billion a year on pornography sent to their  handsets by 2008, which may boost the wireless services sector  much as it fueled growth in the fixed-line Internet, a market  research firm said.
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Investor's Business Daily - The buzz in wireless is that 2008 is the year of the smart phone, and that has sparked a hive of activity by makers of cell phone chips.
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Google-powered phones to arrive mid-2008 with bundled services and open APIs, The Wall Street Journal reports.
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This patent, as well as others, could yield information about company's plans for a "Gphone."
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PC Magazine - An analyst says the computer maker could be poised to sell as many as 12 million of its own brand of cell phones following a 2007 debut.
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LOS ANGELES (CBS.MW) -- US technology spending is projected to rise 7 percent next year and continue at about the same rate through 2008, according to results of a survey released Monday that also showed improved optimism on outlays in the sector.
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Google has warned that the rapid revenue growth it experienced in the third quarter may not continue in the fourth quarter and beyond.