Published by Head Robot on 29th November 2007
Digg founder says: Mobile Web is Next
Still looking for reasons to port your mobile application to the Android platform? This was found at www.siliconrepublic.com.
“We are on the verge of mobile application explosion,” Kevin Rose, founder of social news site Digg.com, tells siliconrepublic.com, and he credits devices like the iPhone for bringing a “true, full-featured computing experience to a small handheld device”.
Rose’s site www.digg.com was one of the first to create an iPhone-friendly version but he says that though mobile devices are the next big trend it is the internet that is driving changes in how people are accessing information with innovations like search, RSS (Really Simple Syndication), blogs and social networking as major catalysts.
“The tollbooths of information are being torn down: the cost of creating and distributing content is now so low that anyone can produce content and blast it out to the world.
“And you can access just about any type of content anywhere, so content is abundant and accessible.”
He says that the challenge now is sifting through the overwhelming amount of content we come across on a daily basis to find what is most interesting and relevant.
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Published by Head Robot on 19th November 2007
National Public Radio’s Talk of the Nation Radio for November 16, 2007
Fed up with your current cell phone — or your service provider? Mobile experts discuss what can be expected from cell phones and cell companies in the future.
Google is working to develop a new kind of software that could work on many different handsets — will it simplify the market or add to the confusion?
Guests:
- Steven Cherry, senior associate editor, IEEE Spectrum
- Mark McCluskey, senior editor, products, Wired magazine
- Rich Miner, group manager of mobile platforms, Google, Inc
To listen to the program, visit Phones of the Future and Google’s Cell Debut page at NPR to launch the audio application.
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Published by Head Robot on 13th November 2007
The Wall Street Journal talks to Google’s Rich Miner:
If you can measure a new technology’s popularity by the number of companies trying to attach their names to it, then Google’s new Android mobile-phone platform is a big deal.
By the time I left the office yesterday, I’d heard from the developer of Android’s voice-command software, a company providing fonts for Android, a publicist for a competing Linux mobile software effort, yet another mobile-Linux software developer, a firm that sells cheap international cell-phone calling, the Public Knowledge think tank (which basically opined “Yay, Google!”) and CTIA, the wireless industry’s trade association (”If ever there was evidence that so-called ‘net neutrality’ rules were not needed, today’s news is it”).
This kind of breathless anticipation says something–and not just that a lot of people are unhappy with their cell phones. Google’s past successes have rightly led people to expect great things from the Mountain View, Calif., company, and now it has given itself one of the toughest tasks imaginable: reinventing the mobile phone with this new, open-source software.
To read the questions and answers, read the rest of Analyzing Google’s “Android” at The Wall Street Journal
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