Platform battles… aren’t they fun?
Actually, they’re not. They keep a lot of innovation from happening. Will Google’s move to launch the alliance make the platform battle finish sooner than it otherwise would? Probably not. From that perspective, the Open Handset Alliance was a disappointment.
If you expected a cool device from Google, you should be also [...]

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…and it’s a… web page?
With… robots. And a dog.

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Your OpenSocial network.
It’s Google and partners against Facebook (and Microsoft) now.
The address book in your mobile phone is a very simple social networking application that has remained basically unchanged since it first arrived. Adding OpenSocial to the Google Phone might bring some innovation to this application (which probably is amongst the most used applications in [...]

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Spent the afternoon at the Daytona Session here in Stockholm. A mini-conference focusing on the future of the internet. One of the speakers was Stefan Waldeck from Yahoo! Sweden. He talked about mobile (which by the way was a common theme amongst the speakers - seems that’s where the future of the web is) and [...]

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The pieces of the Google Phone, gphone, puzzle is coming together. After acquiring Voice 2.0 company GrandCentral a couple of months ago they now extend to microblogging and presence with the acquisition of Jaiku (similar to Twitter but more mobile oriented).
I’ve said it a before: good mobile 2.0 services requires good web services in the [...]

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GigaOm is listing a few “facts” about the so far non-existing Google Phone. The first two are:
1. Google Phone is based on a mobile variant of Linux, and is able to run Java virtual machines.
2. All applications that are supposed to run on the Google Phone are java apps. The OS has ability to run [...]

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So the rumours were true: Google has aquired VoIP-pioneers Grandcentral.
Just like the company I am in the process of starting up: GlocalReach, Grandcentral is basically an internet based reach management system for voice communication (back in the 20th century they called it “telephony”).
Their idea is similar yet somewhat different from ours. They believe [...]

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Been trying out the new Opera Mini beta on my Sony Ericsson M600 today. This is version 4 of the extremely popular java-based (downloadable) web browser for mobile phones.
My first impression was: oh, no, they made the GUI too slow and cumbersome. The clean simplicity of the first versions seemed to be gone. But [...]

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Doubtless, Google is going mobile. But regardless of the rumors the Google Phone is about as likely as a Microsoft PC.
Building and selling a phone at the scale that a Google Phone would require is a lot of work and requires a huge infrastructure. Selling boxes with hardware in them is a completely different business [...]

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Context-aware search (I think the term “mobile search” has “horseless carriage” written all over it) is the next big thing according to Google founder:
“Mobile, mobile, mobile” were the words of Google Inc. (GOOG.O) Chief Executive Eric Schmidt this week when asked what technologies are most intriguing to the computer Web search leader.
What are the building [...]

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A couple of years ago people talked about the difference between killing time and saving time when it came to mobile internet usage. Well, you know there’s progress when Google now presents no less than three different user scenarios:
“Rechis said that Google breaks down mobile users into three behavior groups: A. “Repetitive now” B. “Bored [...]

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