Friday, September 18, 2009 10:28 PM/EST
Why try to protect Apple by asking the FCC to keep confidential how Apple rejected the Google Voice application for its iPhone App Store, only to turn around a month later and patently throw Apple under the bus? Perhaps Google leveraged Apple's reputation as a corporate stalwart of spin and deception against Apple, aiming for maximum PR damage.
Thursday, September 03, 2009 10:47 AM/EST
Sprint's HTC Hero syncs with Google Search, Google Maps, Gmail, and YouTube, and uses HTC Sense, which provides users customizable widgets that create "scenes." Shouldn't Google, Sprint, T-Mobile and any Android-carrying smartphone makers do something drastic to shake up the market, which seems to be iPhone's to lose?
Tuesday, September 01, 2009 11:43 AM/EST
There are $200 million worth of applications sold in Apple's iPhone App Store store every month. That would make it a $2.4 billion-per-year business, the largest mobile app market no one is talking about! Meanwhile, Om Malik said the rival Google Android Market store brings in about $5 million a month, or $60 million in a year.
Saturday, August 22, 2009 7:39 AM/EST
We don't know Google's account of why Apple did not embrace Google Voice. Why?! Google blocked it from its public response, requesting confidentiality from the FCC over its talks with Apple. Google doesn't want to mess up this relationship by airing Apple's reason for "not approving" (not rejecting, of course) the application in the first place.
Saturday, August 08, 2009 6:16 AM/EST
The Google Voice team has enhanced its automatic voicemail transcription feature to recognize pauses in speaking and put periods at the end of spoken sentences. It's good to say innovation is still moving forward for Voice even as the Apple-Google Voice rejection imbroglio simmers in the background.
Monday, August 03, 2009 11:19 AM/EST
Google and Apple have now entered into a grander, more severe scenario of competition. Instead of Google and Apple taking on Microsoft together, Google will compete with Apple and vice versa. Both vendors will continue to take on the software giant, separately.
Friday, July 31, 2009 8:23 PM/EST
The FCC has sent Apple, AT&T and Google letters about the Google Voice ban. One could only believe Apple and AT&T don't presume to stonewall the government, but hey, stranger things have happened. It wouldn't be the first time high-tech vendors tried to slip away from responsibility.
Monday, July 20, 2009 11:16 AM/EST
It would be a bad precedent for Schmidt to step down simply because many in the press believe he should. At this point, with this issue being written about and dissected, stepping down appears as an affirmation of guilt, even if Google tries to spin it by saying Schmidt is too busy at Google or elsewhere.