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Google Mobile Book Search

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Google continues to roll out new mobile products.  Monday it was Tasks, yesterday Latitude and today we have Google Mobile Book Search at books.google.com/m.  It’s an iPhonesque mobile interface into 1.5 million  public domain books that Google has scanned as part of its Book Search project. I heard about it first  from microflash on Twitter.  There’s an official announcement on the Inside Book Search blog. The new mobile interface lets you search  for and read any of  the 1.5 million … Continue reading →

Google Latitude – This is Big!

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Last month Google killed four of their mobile services (Jaiku, Notes, Dodgeball and the iPhone and Android specific variants of iGoogle) and I was starting to have doubts about the search and advertising giant’s commitment to mobile. I shouldn’t have doubted, on Monday Google rolled out Tasks for Mobile, and today launched a brand new service, Google Latitude. Latitude adds location tracking to the Google Maps mobile application and to iGoogle on the desktop.  You can track yourself and anyone … Continue reading →

2009 Predictions – What’s Ahead For Mobile

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Photo: New Year’s fireworks over Tbilisi, Georgia by vshioshvili Some Rights Reserved In spite of  so-so results with my 2008 predictions, I’m back to try again. 2009 will be a year of significant changes in the mobile world. The current global recession will have a profound negative effect on all industries. Fortunately, mobile will be affected less than most. Users may cut back on mobile spending but they won’t give up their phones and startups will continue to innovate in … Continue reading →

New Carnival of the Mobilists

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Be sure to check out the latest Mobilist’s Carnival. It’s at All About Iphone.net where Steve Litchfield of The Smartphones Show and 3-Lib fame is making a surprise appearance as guest host. There’s a lot of new and hot stuff this week including first looks at Nokia’s 5800 and N79  and coverage of the recent “Future of Mobile” conference. There are also product reviews of the T-Mobile G1, “FastLane Street Racing” for the iPhone and my own examination of the … Continue reading →

TmoNews – T-Mobile USA Scoops

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TmoNews.com is a  seven month old news blog covering T-Mobile USA.  The site is updated daily, and is not one of those mobile “news” sites that just regurgitates the latest press leases.  TmoNews does some real investigative reporting, and has scored a number of scoops including being the first with details on T-Mobile’s data price increases that are supposed to go into effect on October 16th, the first information and photos of the Samsung Behold touchscreen phone and first with … Continue reading →

2008 Mobile 2.0 Event San Francisco – Part 2

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Updated: Added link to slides from presentation by Taptu’s Stefan Butlin – 13-Nov-2008. This is the second part of my wrap up from yesterday’s Mobile Web 2.0 event.  The first part covered the morning business track.  The business track continued in the afternoon but I chose to attend the afternoon developer or “Builder” Track. Caroline Lewko started things off with a welcome and some tips on marketing applications. Caroline urged developers to sell through as many channels as possibe and … Continue reading →

148th Carnival of the Mobilists at Mopocket

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There’s a new Carnival of the Mobilists posted at mopocket.com.  It’s election day in the US and this week’s Carnival host, Justin Oberman has given his carnival an election theme. Hopefully, this will serve to remind US readers to be sure to vote today.  In keeping with the theme, Little Springs Design’s Barbara Ballard contributed a piece on the (un)usability of touchscreen voting machines. There are some great posts in this week’s Carnival including a couple of new takes on … Continue reading →

Google’s Disruptive Android Strategy

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The first Android phone will be announced by Google and T-Mobile tomorrow, September 23 at 10:30 AM Eastern time in New York City.  The phone itself is the HTC Dream branded as a T-Mobile G1. Beyond that everything about the phone is conjecture.  Most rumors put the device in stores Oct 13 at $199 on a two year contract.    Further rumor mongering  predicts UK and German releases, also on T-Mobile in October or November.  There’s also  the potential of a … Continue reading →