Google has just launched its first mobile phone location based service in the US.
This service works off determining which cellphone tower you are using and will then show you only services provided in the surrounding areas.
This is just one of the moves Google are making in the mobile market and this service is running without consultation of any of the network operators.
Microsoft seem to want to own the world, and I am sure that if they were able to buy it, we would be on planet Microsoft right now.
If you don’t already know, Microsoft brought a 1,6% stake in Facebook. This deal cost Microsoft $240 Million and gives them the right to sell banner advertising outside the US. Microsoft have also made a bid to acquire a stake in a local telecom company called Blue Label Telecoms (BlueTel).
It is scary to think that the likes of Microsoft and Google are becoming Giants that no business can compare to and will most likely be bought out by either of them.
Google’s who share price rose to over $700 just announced their plan in the mobile industry with their new Android platform which will turn the mobile industry on it heads and let it roll around in Google powder for a bit.
I am one who is pro competition, and I am worried that these Giants are crushing all competition and creating an anarchy of how things should be done. Don’t get me wrong, I think Google’s ways and ideas are brilliant and are generally good for the public but Microsoft has always been “dodgy” and has built a reputation of doing it for the money and self benefit rather than the better good of the public and its clients.
Google Google Google, what have you done? I was pretty keen on getting the new HTC as my next phone but now you have gone and messed that all up.
For those of you who have not heard the news, Google unveiled there latest trick. After many months of discussions and suggestions from many news centers about a Google phone being released we finally have an answer. Google are not making a phone, they are redesigning the face of mobile technology. No more will you have to get a phone with its lousy software that is bland and boring and has no ability to be modified to suite your needs because as of the second half of next year, you will be able to do just that.
Android, Google’s new mobile platform, will allow users and mainly developers to tap into their phones full potential. Google has partnered with a few big manufacturers and networks such as Motorola, Samsung and T-Mobile something even the ‘great and all mighty’ Microsoft could not do. Google will offer the platform to them for free, I still await to see how Google will profit from this - yet they always do, which will allow the cellphone makers to develop their own ‘applications’ to run on their phones.
Wow, the possibilities are endless, imagine you create an application that can go onto every single phone running Android, and the best thing is, the user can decided if he wants it or not. Say hello to mobile open source.
I don’t know what Google’s objectives or goals are, all I know is that everything they do seems to directly or indirectly insult/upset Microsoft.
Come on Google, when you bringing out Google OS?
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