Posts Tagged ‘ Google ’

Sina (Nasdaq:SINA) has already developed its own search engine that could replace Google (Nasdaq:GOOG) search on the Sina homepage, cctime.com reported Friday quoting a Sina public relations chief. Virtual community site Tianya Club is implementing a new plan to continue operating without Google’s help, the report said quoting Tianya CEO Xing Ming. Tianya Club...
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Operator China Unicom said it will remove Google’s mobile search services from phones running the digital services provider’s Android mobile OS, a direct response to Google’s decision to defy Chinese censorship mandates by redirecting users to its uncensored Hong Kong website. China Unicom, the nation’s second largest mobile carrier, said its Android manufacturer partners...
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LAS VEGAS–Proclaiming “Location adds new relevancy to mobile search,” Google director of mobile advertising Diana Pouliot said one of every three mobile search queries received by the digital services giant now includes some element of local-specific intent. Speaking at the Mobile Marketing & Advertising event here in conjunction with CTIA Wireless 2010, Pouliot cited...
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Google announced the introduction of its Orkut social networking service across its Android mobile operating system, promising users tools to stay in contact with friends wherever they go. Launched in early 2004 and named after its creator, Google staffer Orkut Büyükkökten, Orkut currently boasts more than 100 million active users worldwide–while the service lags...
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Google announced that its Android Market mobile applications storefront now boasts roughly 30,000 apps–just three months earlier, the store offered 16,000 apps. MobileCrunch reported the official Google total after data from analytics provider AndroLib.com calculated the present Android Market app inventory at close to 35,000. Google declined to break down the percentage of premium...
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Google anticipates significant growth for its arsenal of mobile services according to executives who participated in a Monday webcast outlining the digital services giant’s wireless vision. “Google has bet big on mobile,” Google vice president of engineering Vic Gundotra said, stating that its mobile search traffic has grown five times over the past two...
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There has been a lot of talk this year about the blurring line between consumer and enterprise technologies. It’s getting tougher for companies to dissuade employees from using their smartphones at work or prevent them from accessing social media via the corporate network. Vendors seem to be encouraging the trend by adding work-related functions to consumer-oriented devices and...
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Motorola announced an agreement with Microsoft to deploy the software giant’s Bing search and mapping services across Android-powered smartphones sold in the Chinese market, eschewing Android creator Google’s own mobile search engine in the process. The move follows in the wake of a censorship dispute between Google and Chinese officials, with speculation Google could...
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The Motorola Backflip, the first AT&T smartphone based on Google’s Android mobile operating system, will hit stores on March 7 with Yahoo as its default mobile search engine instead of Google’s own search tool. Most if not all previous Android devices launched in the U.S. have arrived at retail with Google installed as the...
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A new Juniper Research report found that the number of enterprise customers using mobile cloud-based applications will increase to more than 130 million by 2014. Platform as a service (PaaS) deployments from companies such as Google and Microsoft are expected to be the catalyst for growth. Juniper Research found that the market for connected...
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