Sprint HTC Evo: the Video

Ad for the new Sprint HTC Evo, coming June 4.

Verizon Says it Has No Immediate Plans to Sell iPhone

The  longest-running rumor many of us can cite at the moment is the nearly-constant expectation that Verizon Wireless is going to carry the Apple iPhone. Alas, the rumors, which have heated up again recently, seem to be equally false. No iPhone at Verizon for the foreseeable future, it seems.

Froyo Feature: Threaded call log | Android Central

Android 2.2 (Froyo) features threaded call logs that collapse multiple calls from the same person or entity into a single pane that can be tapped to expand the list. It saves screen real estate.

Cisco Releases Annual Global Bandwidth Forecast

Cisco's latest visual networking index shows the expected "up to the right" growth curve. No surprise there.

The growth in traffic will continue to be dominated by video, exceeding 91 percent of global consumer IP traffic by 2014. That statistic simply screams for network management to ensure the quality of video experience.

Apple Wants to Replace, Not Compete, in Search

Apple CEO Steve Jobs says his company will not take on Google in the search business. That's a bit of legalese, one might argue. Apple does not so much want to compete in search as to make it irrelevant in a mobile context.

"Competing" implies one wishes to win something. "Displacing and replacing " is more like what Apple wants to do.

Many of Apple’s 200,000 app downloads, for example, are simply shortcuts to the web which eliminates the need for Google’s search functions.

Apple already competes against Google in the mobile phone, mobile advertising and operating systems areas, and soon there will be competition from Google in the music and mobile apps arenas as well.

Apple Says It Will Not Take On Google In Search, But It Already Has – 24/7 Wall St.

Google Indexes Mobile Apps

Sometimes, when you use a smartphone, the best search result is not a web page, it's an application.

That's probably the reason why Google added an OneBox for iPhone and Android apps. If you enter a query that includes keywords like 'download', 'application' or 'app' on an iPhone or on an Android phone, you'll see a list of results from Apple's App Store or from the Android Market. link

As of today, if you go to Google.com on your iPhone or Android-powered device and search for an app, we’ll show special links and content at the top of the search results.

You can tap these links to go directly to the app’s Android Market or iPhone App Store page. You can also get a quick look at some of the app’s basic details including the price, rating, and publisher. These results will appear when your search pertains to a mobile application and relevant, well-rated apps are found.

Google Indexes Mobile Apps

Facebook, Music, Navigation, News Top Smartphone Apps

Though there are some differences by smartphone platform, users tend to use social networking, especially Facebook, listen to music and navigate and search for places on their smartphones most frequently.

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They also seem to use the Weather Channel app frequently, and access news as well.

Dell Shows "Streak" Tablet

The new Dell "Streak" tablet will have quite a different form factor than the iPad.

Steve Jobs Talks about Why It Created the iPhone

Steve Jobs talks about the iPhone and why Apple wanted to create it.

Steve Jobs on Apple's iAd Network

Steve Jobs talks about the iAd network at "All Things Digital."

Steve Jobs on Where Apple is Going

Steve Jobs, Apple CEO, expounding on a number of subjects at "All Things Digital." Jobs says Apple is not interested in search or TV. But Apple also said it was not interested in phones. I seem to recall that Apple wasn't all that hot on tablets, either.

No More Windows at Google?

According to the Financial Times, Google has banned the use of the Microsoft operating system, company wide. read the story here.


“We’re not doing any more Windows," said one Google employee. New hires are now given the option of using Apple’s Mac computers or PCs running the Linux operating system.

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Can Google Apps Save a Business Money?

Many enterprises would have a really hard time quantifying the benefits from cloud applications, hosted applications or software as a service.

Google claims it can help businesses quantify how much they can save by switching to Google Apps. Smaller organizations might buy the logic.

Hulu Growth Flattens

Hulu's growth, at least as measured by views, appears to have flattened over the last six months. On the other hand, it appears to be profitable, if not by much.

As it gears up to offer subscription plans, and more content moves behind a pay wall, growth might even dip a bit.

That's the challenge for any content provider that opts for pay walls: fewer users but more revenue.

Games, Music, Social Networking, News and Maps Top Smartphone Downloads

About 21 percent of American wireless subscribers had a smartphone in the fourth quarter of 2009, up from 19 percent in the previous quarter and significantly higher than the 14 percent at the end of 2008.

About 14 percent of mobile subscribers have downloaded an app in the last 30 days. Games, music and social networking apps seem to be high on the list for both smartphone and feature phone users.

News and map applications get much higher use by smartphone users.
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