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The FBI Took Secret Intelligence from Creepy Cell-Phone Tappers
Ryan Tate · 12/12/11 05:11PMThe FBI has files from a phone-monitoring company whose notorious software was on iPhones, Android phones, Nokias and BlackBerries. But since the files are being used "for law enforcement purposes," the feds won't talk about their contents. So you can't know what secrets the feds have gleaned from your phone, because that's a secret.
Amazon Launches Christmas Attack on Local Shops
Ryan Tate · 12/06/11 02:50PMOccupy Wall Street Spawns New 'I'm Getting Arrested' App
Adrian Chen · 10/26/11 11:08AMGoogle Pulls 'Is My Son Gay' App
Ryan Tate · 10/05/11 03:34PMGoogle Honcho's Ex-Mistress Says She Was Attacked by Flight Attendant
Matt Cherette · 09/15/11 02:11AMThink Twice Before You Use Your Smart Phone at Starbucks
Ryan Tate · 05/17/11 02:54PMThis Is Not a Human Being
Matt Cherette · 10/27/10 04:53PMState Farm Android App's Auto-Reply Keeps You From Texting While Driving
Henry Baker · 08/27/10 01:01PMSteve Jobs: If You Want Porn, Buy an Android Phone
Max Read · 04/20/10 11:19PMDid Tech Geeks Rip Off Sci Fi Geeks?
Hamilton Nolan · 01/06/10 11:09AMGoogle Hands Out 'Dogfood' as Christmas Bonus
Owen Thomas · 12/22/08 11:22AMGooglephone sales 50 percent better than expected
Paul Boutin · 11/24/08 02:06PMT-Mobile's G1 phone, which runs Google's Android operating system, just doesn't have the cultural icon status of Apple's iPhone. But HTC, the Taiwanese company that makes the G1, revised its 2008 sales forecast up to one million, from an initial 600,000. (For context, Apple sold a million iPhones in the first 74 days.) Silicon Alley Insider asks the burning question: Who here bought one? Are G1 owners somehow different from iPhone evangelists who need to show their superphone to everyone on the bus?
Google's Android takes your conversation too seriously
Alaska Miller · 11/07/08 06:40PMPurchasers of the first Googlephone, T-Mobile's G1, are already discovering that with great power — root access to your phone operating system! — comes great responsibility. There's an as-yet-unpatched bug: If you type the letters "r-e-b-o-o-t", the phone reboots. A-w-k-w-a-r-d. Oh, crud, I just wrote a shell script. [ZDNet]
Motorola CEO's spouse doesn't Krave his phones
Paul Boutin · 10/29/08 03:00PM"When my wife switches, then you'll know," says Motorola co-CEO Sanjay Jha, whose spouse carries an LG Voyager and refuses to trade it for a Moto. Mrs. Steve Jobs? She carries an iPhone. The company is cutting back from six operating systems to three: Windows Mobile, Moto's own P2K, and Google's open-source Android. Oh, and they're going to lay off a few thousand more people, too. Tough times, tough decisions!
Google Earth on the iPhone proves Googlers can do math
Owen Thomas · 10/28/08 03:20PMJoel Johnson of Boing Boing Gadgets is shocked, shocked that the team working on Google Earth, Google's 3D interactive world map, launched a mobile app for the iPhone before writing one for Google's Android operating system, which now runs on all of one clunky phone sold by T-Mobile, the also-ran of the U.S. wireless market. He calls the decision "inexplicable." I don't think it's hard to understand at all: Google Earth programmers actually want people to use their app, rather than have gadget bloggers write posts celebrating their clever strategery.
Android apps just as unrevolutionary as iPhone apps
Alaska Miller · 10/24/08 03:00PMMedialets, a company which tracks which iPhone apps users of Apple's smartphone download from the company's iTunes store, reports that Google's Android Market, a similar service, buy mostly the same kind of apps for their Googlephones. Games, shopping, music, and weather predominate. Google launched Android Market with 62 apps, which were downloaded an average of 7,800 times in the first 24 hours they were available. [Medialets]
All your data are belong to us
Owen Thomas · 10/22/08 06:00PMAt last, the Googlephone is in the wild. But what else lurks as Google lurches into the wireless world? A photo of this giant robot, based on the logo for Google's Android operating system, was fittingly captured by a T-Mobile G1 phone running Android. Can you think of a better caption? Leave your suggestions in the comments, and the best will become the new headline. Yesterday's winner: LychorindaAristaeus, for "The face of a $747 strike price." (Photo by ericajoy)
Six Apart exec on LiveJournal founder: "Waaaaay down the path to madness"
Owen Thomas · 10/21/08 12:00PMBrad Fitzpatrick has a Googlephone, and you don't. And what's he doing with his amazing Android-powered toy? Using Google's mobile operating system, Fitzpatrick is coding an automatic garage-door opener, which senses the presence of his phone using Wi-Fi. He can do this because he's already hooked his garage door up to a Web server. Writes Six Apart executive Michael Sippey on this momentous occasion:
The Googlephone has a kill switch too
Alaska Miller · 10/16/08 02:20PMGoogle's Android phone has something in common with Apple's iPhone: Both gadgets have a "kill switch" to uninstall unwanted applications. Buried in Google's Android legalese is a clause that says Google might "discover a product that violates the developer distribution agreement... in such an instance, Google retains the right to remotely remove those applications from your device at its sole discretion." The outrage would be pretty bad if anyone actually had a Googlephone. [CNET]