Search Engine Land has been running a great GPhone timeline covering important events relating to Google’s various inroads to the phone industry. Sadly, –as of this writing– the timeline hasn’t been updated past August 28th, 2007. Still, it’s definitely a fantastic primer for anyone making attempt to catch up on what’s happened so far.
15 Oct
Posted by Alex as Apps, Aquisitions, Google, Invitations, Mobile
As with most Google acquisitions and product launches, registration for Jaiku is now by invite-only. Luckily, I signed up for Jaiku right after the initial launch of the service back in early April of this year. Right now we have 10 invites available for anyone who requests one in the comments. First post, first serve. So hurry while they still last!
A few days ago the Boston Globe sent a reporter to Google’s offices in Cambridge to dig some dirt on the Google phone. Sadly, there isn’t any new information about the GPhone in the Globe’s video report. However, the accompanying article has a handful of interesting tidbits: One entrepreneur who has seen the Google phone [...]
Here’s a quick snip from Reuters regarding Google’s recent increase in mobile usage: Google Inc. has seen a spike in usage of its mobile services since May, partly offsetting the traditional summer slump in computer-based Web surfing for the first time, an executive said on Wednesday. “We are seeing more and more mobile activity,” Marissa [...]