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Tweet THE G1 PHONE – GOOGLE’S ANDROID DEBUT Google has a phone? You better believe it. The Manifest Destiny of Google continues to expand. The HTC Dream, the first phone featuring Google’s Android operating system, will be sold in the U.S. starting in October. The G1 phone is only available to T-Mobile, priced at $179 [...]

Tweet Analysts: Google Maps wins, rivals ‘stagnate’ Google Maps has expanded its lead in features in the last year, a move that will help the company vanquish rival services in mobile search, Cowen and Co. analysts said Monday. “Since our initial survey in July 2007, innovation at (AOL’s) MapQuest and Yahoo Maps has stagnated,” and [...]

Tweet Chrome – faster and better than IE The buzz the past few weeks has been the new browser from Google, mysteriously named Chrome. While it might seem weird for a search engine company to enter into the fiercely competitive browser market, presently dominated by the worst browser on the planet Internet Explorer there is [...]

Tweet Fixing Microsoft: A How-To Guide The company is losing ground to Google. It’s time to pay attention to issues of privacy, security — and simplifying things for PC users Other than another profitable quarter, Microsoft (MSFT) has little to celebrate these days. The company is falling sadly behind, serving fewer ads, video clips, search [...]

Tweet The iPhone App Store: Backlash to the Backlash We’ve pretty steadily followed the conventional wisdom regarding comparisons between Apple’s extremely closed iPhone app store, especially when compared to Google’s promised mostly open Android app store. This is an important topic, as the app stores are wonderful start-up terrain. We’ve criticized Apple’s heavy-handed and capricious [...]