In search of the Google phone
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Experts see Google partnering with a handset maker for bundled software that will enable everything from IM and maps to monitoring blood pressure.Image: Looking for clues in Google patent
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Ups and downs with a music and messaging phone
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With no fear of the confusion that can arise from text-message shorthand, a new search service is employing a novel tool to answer queries sent by cell phones: human beings.
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Mad4MobilePhones looks at a patent filed by Google which is based on predicting phone calls and actions based upon time and location and may be part of the upcoming Google Phone project. The patent, Nonstandard locality-based text entry, was filed in 2005.   This patent is truly groundbreaking in what the application could do. Imagine that you are [...]
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Web search leader Google Inc  is expected to announce advanced software and services enabling handset makers to bring Google-powered phones to market by mid-2008, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
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InfoWorld - Nokia will integrate Google's search engine into its own search application on four of its latest phones unveiled at the Mobile World Congress, the companies said on Tuesday.
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Internet search giant Google unveils software it hopes will power a variety of future mobile phone handsets.
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Search giant Google has updated a wide range of its web based services, making them easier to use for mobile users. While many enhancements are iPhone specific, they also ready Google's apps for the arrival of Android, Google's own open-source mobile software platform.
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By Michael LiedtkeSAN FRANCISCO, Associated Press  INTERNET search leader Google Inc.
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Smell of vapourware 3GSM It must be a little galling if you go all the way to Barcelona to present a shiny new range of phones, many with music players, only to be asked questions about a competitor who has yet to show anyone an actual product.â¦
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Google is working with mobile content providers on a search tool for cell phones.
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Perhaps it's not a handset but a slice of the wireless spectrum that Google is eyeing.
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Macworldâs Jonny Evans reports that âGoogle has confirmed it has seen 50 times more searches from the iPhone than from any other mobile handset. âWe thought it was a mistake and made our engineers check the logs again,â Vic Gundotra, head of Googleâs mobile operations told the Financial Times at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.â Evans also indicates that O2 ârecently confirmed the iPhone to be driving âunheard of data trafficâ on the mobile network.â
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New research claims consumers are searching out more advanced phones -- with Apple's iPhone and RIM's Blackberry leading the trend.
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By Izwan Ismail  CELCOM subscribers will soon be able to do an Internet search on their mobile phone. The local telecommunications company has signed an agreement with search engine leader Google to enable users to search the Web right from its wireless application protocol (WAP) portal.
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Sci/Tech News, SAN FRANCISCO: Google Inc. announced a new test service that allows people to use mobile phones or handheld devices to tap Google&#39;s Web search via text messages, or short message service.
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(InfoWorld) - If companies likeÂ AppleÂ or even Italian fashion designerÂ PradaÂ can design a mobile phone, why not Google? Maybe it will. Rumors have been circulating in blogosphere for some time about the U.S. search-engine giant studying the possibility of designing its own phone. A recent job opening posted on the Google Web site appears to confirm the company may now be tinkering with more than just an idea but with some real hardware in its engineering labs. "Google is experimenting with a few wireless communications systems including some completely novel concepts," according to the Web-site recruitment text. "We are building a small team of top-notch Logic Designers and Analog Designers aimed at nothing less than making the entire world's information accessible from anywhere for free." Additional qualifications include "extensive circuit modeling and analysis experience, excellent programming skills, experience with switch power supply design" and a ham radio license. With the mobile phone soon to become the most popular device to access the Internet, it wouldn't be unthinkable for the world's largest search-engine company to want to grab a bigger piece of the action, according to some analysts. "In the wake of Apple and some other big-name brands moving into the handset business, why not Google?" said Phil Taylor, senior analyst with Strategy Analytics. Google and its arch rival Yahoo have been striking deals with both operators keen to offer search-engine services to their mobile phone customers and manufacturers interested in embedding search functions directly in their handsets, according to Taylor. Late last year,Â rumors emergedÂ about Google and French mobile phone operator OrangeÂ holding discussions about a possible partnership to design a co-branded, Google-enabled handset, he said. "If Google were to enter the market, it would likely work with an operator as Apple has done with Cingular in the U.S.," Taylor said. "And like Apple, Google would focus on designing the product and work with a contract manufacturer to produce it." But for Google to make a splash in the crowded mobile phone market, the company would need to design a product that sticks out among the rest -- as Apple is doing with itsÂ large-size, touch display, according to Taylor. "It will be a challenge to come up with a really new design," he said. Google could not be immediately reached for comment. Â