The battle still rages on for the win in this seemingly endless competition between Apple and Google, AT&T and Verizon, and the iPhone and Android. Yet this is a great time for application developers and mobile advertisers to take advantage of the growing and dynamic mobile OS environments. The debate over which major features are [...]

Google comes out swinging against popular shopping apps such as, Shopsavvy and Amazon with Google Shopper.  Many of you have probably already noticed Google Maps 2D barcodes on local store fronts in your neighborhood (at up to 190,000 local businesses throughout the US).  Most people have no clue what these little tags are for, but [...]

The average person can quickly get bogged down by the hundreds of options for developing a social presence.  Just yesterday, Google tossed their hat in the ring with Google Buzz, this foray into social networking clearly combats the success of Twitter and Facebook. I thought John Battelle captured the essence of this confusing move best in [...]

As Google continues its exploration to own the life cycle of the mobile consumer.  Yesterday, they announced a web app for the iPhone and Palm WebOS devices.  I’ve been running Google Voice for months and this new web app is a tremendous upgrade and brings the experience full circle.  This is a great example of [...]

Do you find yourself using traditional search engines less and less?  Are you using the Bing search functionality in Facebook?  How often do you find yourself using Twitter Search? The answers to these questions may surprise you, as users continue to flock to major social networks as their main information portal.  Everything from news to [...]

Below is a great Slideshare deck from TrendsSpotting, discussing the rapid evolution of the mobile device for 2010 and beyond.  The Tweet style format covers mobile predictions and facts from some heavy hitters in the technology space including analysts from IDC, Morgan Stanley, Gartner, Mashable, GigaOM, eMarketer, and the Mobile Marketing Association. 2010 Mobile Influencers: [...]

Here is a great little commercial clip of the Nexus One.  As an old G1 customer, I’m glad to see some much needed improvements in the UI and sexier hardware, however there are many reports out there showing lackluster Nexus One sales in the first 10 days of release.  Perhaps its not sexy enough for [...]

The Connected vs. the Disconnected… We just switched phone carriers from T-Mobile (using G1 Android) to Sprint (using Palm Pre).  We were pretty pumped to see the attractive packages Sprint is offering  these days, and although I know their service can be spotty vs some of the other carriers, the price is right for the trade off. [...]

Forget the boring “Top 10 Lists,” listen to Rich Wong, investor in some of the hottest companies in mobile (Admob, Getjar) and social (Facebook, Groupon).  Below is a great interview via @scobleizer of Rich recapping 2009 and giving his predictions of 2010; covering topics such as the unexpected growth of social e-commerce, how apps vs [...]

Officially, I found out about the Google Goggles release on the MSNBC report last week along with the rest of the world.  Unofficially, I’ve known Google has been investing heavily in their image search technology for about 18 months.  In August of 2006