May 1st, 2008 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Mobile
Posted by Ulf Waschbusch, Product Marketing Manager, Google mobile teamGoogle fürs iPhone jetzt auch in deutsch! Et en français .. en in het Nederlands and in many more languages. When we launched our new Google interface for the iPhone at Macworld i…
April 30th, 2008 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Mobile
Posted by Alexandra Kenin, Product Marketing Manager, mobile adsLast week we launched our new mobile image ads, which give mobile web publishers the flexibility to display image ads in addition to text ads on their sites. As of today, AdSense for mobi…
April 23rd, 2008 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Mobile
Posted by Alexandra Kenin, Product Marketing Manager, Mobile AdsThe mobile ads team is happy to announce the launch of mobile image ads. These look like standard image ads for desktop web pages but they are smaller to fit on mobile screens and they run…
April 17th, 2008 | by Ryan Pollock | published in Google Mobile
Posted by Chris Nguyen and Tom Dimopoulos, Mobile Product Specialists, Google mobile teamHave we mentioned that we like doing things faster? In the spirit of speed and helping you to Better Know Your Mobile, the next couple of videos in our series will…
April 16th, 2008 | by Lawrence | published in Google Mobile
Posted by Hazel Mary, Software EngineerHave you ever wanted to check if your buddy responded to your scrap about this evening’s plans, but not been close to a computer? Do you wish you could pass the time on your long commute home by browsing through y…
April 11th, 2008 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Mobile
Posted by Lawrence Chang, Product Marketing Manager, Google mobile teamA recent article in the Evening Standard introduced a “new, peculiarly 21st century affliction” called nomophobia or “no mobile phobia,” which is exactly what it sounds like – the f…
April 7th, 2008 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Mobile
Posted by Chris Nguyen and Tom Dimopoulos, Mobile Product Specialists, Google mobile teamWe’ve found that a lot of you that use our services like Google Maps for mobile haven’t yet tried some of the great features that are available. Well, those days …
April 3rd, 2008 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Mobile
Posted by Sung Hu Kim, Product Marketing Manager for Android, Google mobile team As some of you may have heard, Wireless Week has chosen the Open Handset Alliance and Android for its Emerging Technology Award, noting that “Android’s potential promises …
April 2nd, 2008 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Mobile
Posted by Zak Cohen, Software Engineer, Google mobile teamWhen Joe Walnes showed off the shiny AJAX interface on the iPhone version of Picasa Web Albums I started thinking – can we make an AJAX interface work on new Windows Mobile devices? After all, I…
March 27th, 2008 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Mobile
Posted by Alexandra Kenin, Product Marketing Manager, Mobile AdsIn my last post, some of you expressed concern that intrusive and oversized advertisements on a small screen could result in a poor mobile user experience. You asked how we strike the del…
March 20th, 2008 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Mobile
Posted by Andy McEwan, Software Engineer, Google mobile teamAs a mobile user, you choose a carrier, subscription plan, platform and handset model (think of it as a flavour) that suits your fancy. And with mobile applications becoming more and more impo…
March 19th, 2008 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Mobile
By Robert Hamilton, Product Manager, Google mobile teamA few weeks ago, we launched a plug-in for Symbian devices that put a Google search shortcut onto the phone’s home screen. This shortcut reduces the time it takes for you to get answers from Google…
March 12th, 2008 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Mobile
Posted by Mark Crady, Engineering Manager, Google Maps for mobile teamI’ve heard it said that user interfaces are measured in “hurts.” Here at Google we like things to be as painless as possible. That’s why we’re happy to share a little-known feature o…
March 4th, 2008 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Mobile
Posted by Charles Wiles, Product Manager, Google mobile teamEver use a mobile web application and suddenly lose your cell connection? That’s happened to me many times. If you’ve shared my pain, you’ll be excited to know that we’ve launched Google Gears…
February 27th, 2008 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Mobile
Posted by Michael Fisher, Mobile Strategic Partner Development ManagerIf you’re one of the millions of people with an Opera Mobile or Opera Mini browser on your phone, you may be pleased to know that Google will soon be the default search engine on the…