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History Repeats Itself – Google is the Microsoft of Mobile Computing

by Ian Rosenwach 11.2.2009

History is repeating itself in the mobile marketplace. Some of the companies have changed, but the business strategies and even a few of the players are still the same. In looking back to how the PC market developed, Microsoft took an open approach. They licensed their OS to lots of hardware makers and said “you […]

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First signs of Apple Google rift

by Ian Rosenwach 7.23.2009

“Unfortunately, since there is no mechanism for applications to run in the background on iPhone (which applies to browser-based web apps as well), we’re not able to provide continuous background location updates in the same way that we can for Latitude users on Android, Blackberry, Symbian and Window Mobile.” – Official Google Mobile Blog: Google […]

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