Crown Mobile Convergence

Google Phone 2.0?

Is Google continuing its push into the mobile market? This recent post called "Forget iPhone, Think Google Phone" suggest that it might be. More...

Links: Orange, HTC, GigaOM

Mobile Ready?

What does your site look like on a mobile phone? Test it here.

From the dotMobi site:

"Researchers at IDC say that 1.3 billion people will connect to the Internet via mobile phones by 2008. To see your site the same way that millions of mobile phone users do, use the .mobi mobile Emulator, which 'emulates' a real mobile phone Internet browser."

Your Future Phone By Google?

Last year, Google quietly bought Android, Andy Rubin's 22-month-old start-up that described itself solely as a maker of software for mobile phones. Google's co-founder, Larry Page, said:

"We are bringing more of our products to mobile phone users. Since there are at least twice as many mobile phones than PCs in use globally, and mobile usage is growing faster than PCs, we want to make Google available in a device- independent way"

Interesting sidebar: Andy Rubin is also the president and CEO of Danger, Inc., that provides mobile devices and platforms like their latest unit, Sidekick 3, marketed exclusively by T-Mobile. Danger's business model could put Google right in the middle of the rapidly accelerating mobile Internet race.

Last year, Google quietly bought Android, Andy Rubin's 22-month-old start-up that described itself solely as a maker of software for mobile phones. Google's co-founder, Larry Page, said:

"We are bringing more of our products to mobile phone users. Since there are at least twice as many mobile phones than PCs in use globally, and mobile usage is growing faster than PCs, we want to make Google available in a device- independent way"

Interesting sidebar: Andy Rubin is also the president and CEO of Danger, Inc., that provides mobile devices and platforms like their latest unit, Sidekick 3, marketed exclusively by T-Mobile. Danger's business model could put Google right in the middle of the rapidly accelerating mobile Internet race.