Sergey Brin and others drop the bomb that Android's dominance is fleeting
Photo Credit: Jon Fortt
During today's media Q&A session, Google clarified its OS roadmap. Because of bandwidth limitations, current processor level, and HTML5's infancy, the company doesn't view ChromeOS, due out later this year, as a mainstream solution. The responsibility of powering phones, TVs, tablets, and well, everything else, will rest squarely on the shoulders of Android, at least for MORE
Seth Weintraub - May 19, 2010 7:31 PM ET
Dubbed 'Google Storage for Developers,' the new service will compete with Amazon's S3 for app dollars.
As part of Google I/O today, the company unleashed its Google Cloud Storage product, which is squarely aimed at the same market as Amazon's (AMZN) S3 but has some significant advantages, including aggressive beta pricing (free) and integration with Google's App Engine platform.
The pricing for Google Storage is as follows:
Storage—$0.17/gigabyte/month
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Upload data to Google
$0.10/gigabyte
Download data from Google
$0.15/gigabyte for MORE
Google today announced the release of VP8, a new video codec that it envisions will pave the way for the future of video on the Web.
Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch Photo Credit: Jon Fortt
While it wasn't mentioned once during the keynote, VP8 takes dead aim at MPEG LA's H.264 codec, which has the backing of industry heavyweights like Apple and Microsoft (who are both members of MPEG LA).
VP8 technology stems MORE
Seth Weintraub - May 19, 2010 3:03 PM ET
The carriers' combined market share shrank to 4.9% last year as Apple solidified its lead
Source: Verizon Wireless
Songs streamed directly to cellphones, once touted as the next big thing in digital music, failed to take off and is now rapidly losing ground to Apple's (AAPL) iTunes Store.
That's the conclusion of a survey in the May 22 issue of Billboard. Based on interviews with distributors representing roughly 90% of the MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 19, 2010 11:27 AM ET
Palm demonstrated some software based on HTML5 today, not that Chrome was coming to webOS, as previously speculated.
Breakfast is being served and the show is about to begin. Here's a quick clip of the show floor with an unlikely guest.
Palm. With a little Chrome Browser icon below their display.
Though it was easy to assume that they'd be utilizing the Chrome Browser, it turns out they have a software wing and MORE
Seth Weintraub - May 19, 2010 11:20 AM ET
I'm live at Google I/O this morning and will be updating this post as announcements are made.
Google has set up a live stream of the event, which starts at 9 a.m. PDT. I'll be updating with quick posts here all day.
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/category/google-247/
I can tell you already that HTML5 on Chrome is going to be a huge part of the keynote and that a few of your favorite magazines and Internet TV MORE
Seth Weintraub - May 19, 2010 10:29 AM ET
Nokia and Research in Motion lost market share last quarter, according to Gartner Inc.
Google's Nexus One and Apple's iPhone 3GS
Smartphones -- Apple and Google's in particular -- were the driving force in mobile phone sales last quarter, according to a report issued by Gartner early Wednesday.
Worldwide smartphone sales to end users reached 54.3 million units in the quarter, up 48.7% year-over-year. The overall mobile phone market, by contrast, grew MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 19, 2010 6:17 AM ET
Defying skeptics, iPhone sales tripled in the most recent quarter
2009 iPhone queue in Tokyo. Photo: Information Architects.
Apple (AAPL) has cracked Japan's tough smartphone market wide open, according to a report in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal. The evidence:
Apple sold 1.7 million iPhones in Japan, or 72% of all smartphones sold, in the fiscal year that ended March 31, according to Tokyo-based MM Research. iPhone sales in Japan tripled in MORE Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 19, 2010 5:08 AM ET
Google's 'more open' application environment allows Amazon to build the bookstore into the app.
On the iPhone, you can read your Kindle books using Amazon's WhisperSync technology. Implementing it however, involved a bit of a workaround for Amazon.
If you want to buy an Amazon book on an iPhone (or iPad or iPod touch), you need to exit the Kindle application, open a web browser, and buy the book with your Amazon MORE
Seth Weintraub - May 18, 2010 1:22 PM ET
The mystery company helping GM's OnStar isn't a mystery anymore.
Google I/O is turning out to be a pretty interesting conference this year with GM now acknowledging the speculation that they are working with Google.
(I'll be dropping in at Google I/O and dropping posts on location tomorrow and Thursday).
Today, GM announced that they'd be showing up at Google I/O to demonstrate the new Android app that will accompany the Chevy Volt and MORE
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