Rumors multiply of &#39;Google Phone&#39; launch
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Specialized blogs are all abuzz this week with rumors that Internet giant Google will soon launch the &quot;Google Phone&quot; or &quot;GPhone,&quot; a cheap mobile phone equipped with a Google operating system.
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A leaked video contains details on Google's plans to integrate a number of its offerings (think Picasa, GTalk, Calendar, Reader and more) into what the movie refers to as "activity streams."
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Investors who got in on the ground floor of Google Inc.&#39;s public stock offering might be tempted to pop some champagne corks right about now.
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Nokia wants to be an Internet company and Google, according to speculation among bloggers and technology analysts, may be about to enter the mobile phone fray.
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Google will come out in mid-2008 with a mobile phone platform that incorporates a variety of Google online services and lets outside developers create applications, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.The goal is to make Google applications and services as easily accessible on mobile phones as PCs, so that the company can extend its advertising business to cell phones and other wireless devices. Google may announce its mobile platform within weeks, according to the Journal.The Journal&#39;s article, based on anonymous sources, is the latest of multiple reports over the past six months or so about Google&#39;s plans for the mobile market.Although at some point it was speculated that Google might be involved in the actual&#160;manufacturing of phone hardware, that rumor is now discredited, as Google is expected to focus on developing mobile software.For Google, it&#39;s critical to replicate on mobile phones the success it has had on PC-based online advertising. After years of unfulfilled promises, mobile advertising will boom in coming years, as people spend more time using the Internet via their cell phones.The Kelsey Group recently forecast that mobile search and display advertising in the U.S. will hit $33.2 million this year and grow at a compound annual rate of 112 percent through 2012, when it will total $1.4 billion.Kelsey Group also expects the number of 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.Worldwide, mobile ad spending is expected to reach $1.5 billion this year and grow to $11.3 billion by 2011, according to market researcher Informa Telecoms &amp; Media.Google is far from alone in its interest at pursuing this emerging opportunity in the mobile market, where all major telecom, online publishing and Internet players are jockeying for position.Of course, delivering online services and applications via mobile phones isn&#39;t as straightforward as doing it via PCs. In the mobile market, providers of online applications often have to strike up deals and partnerships with handset makers and wireless carriers.In a recent interview with the IDG News Service, Marissa Mayer, Google&#39;s vice president of Search Products &amp; User Experience,&#160;acknowledged there are specific challenges&#160;to bringing Google services to cell-phone subscribers.&quot;The mobile space is very complicated,&quot; she said.Google has pursued various avenues for making its search engines and other services available via cell phones. It has adapted Google Web sites for mobile browsers, developed mobile applications people can download themselves, as well as preloaded Google software in handsets via formal partnerships with mobile industry players.&#160;
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All the rumors about a Google phone may be just slightly off. Rather than sell a mobile handset, Google Inc. might instead offer wireless service.
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NEW YORK - A small software developer today plans to unveil a suite of applications - browser, camera, games and more - based on the new Google-endorsed operating system, Android.
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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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Is Google really working on its own operating system for mobile phones? It seems we're likely to find out one way or another fairly soon.
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Now that almost everyone has bartered for his or her invitation to Google&#39;s GMail (gmail.google.com) service, everyone is waiting to see what new features Google will introduce to outpace the competition.
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(270 sec.) Rumors of the search engine making a phone, plus using your iPhone as a PDA.
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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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Googleâs efforts to promote Android, an open and free platform for cellphones, is provoking rivals.
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Yesterday we covered the news that Google is expanding their search to the mobile arena with their new Google SMS service which lets you search by sending text messages from your cellphone.
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The palmOne Treo 600 may be the nation&#39;s most loved smart phoneâa celebrated balance of cell phone and PDA. Rumors have swirled around the Internet for months about the next generation of Treos; today, with
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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 month&#39;s interview with Google&#39;s founders may be one of the least revealing pieces ever pasted between the covers of Playboy.