Archive for October, 2008

Today I have seen a blog post (in Russian) by a former Ukraine citizen living in the US now. In the post he described how he bought the first ever Android-powered phone – T-Mobile G1 – for his wife. She herself initially thought she did not really need such a complex toy as it seemed [...]

Fortunately for Profy we have had one of my posts about T-Mobile G1 phone indexed quite well so it makes its appearance on the first page in Google’s results when people search for a few terms related to the very first phone powered with Google’s mobile operating system Android. But of course this post is [...]

Last weekend we spoke here about a few services that have introduced various new revenue models and switched from ad-supported to some models where they can actually generate some predictable revenue based on the value they provide to users. Now it looks like yet another service is following their steps with Ma.gnolia announcing in the [...]

Earlier today the Gmail for mobile team introduced version 2.0 of Gmail for Mobile, the application that enables Gmail users to easier handle their Gmail accounts on the go. This version is an upgrade of the Gmail application for Java ME and BlackBerry phones. Working on this new release the team focused mainly on the [...]

Today there’s a very intriguing piece of news from Android developers – the guys behind ShopSavvy, still the most popular application on the Android Market. This thing is about their attempt to buy some new G1 phones from T-Mobile for their office earlier today. The guys arrived to a T-Mobile store in the North Park [...]

SearchEngineWatch has reporting on the results of quite an interesting survey about how the economic downturn is supposed to affect marketing budgets for various businesses. Quite understandably this is the question that bothers the entire internet industry now as we are trying to figure out if anything ad-supported (both blogs and startups) will be able [...]

ShopSavvy must be one of the best-known applications for Android, Google’s mobile operating system that we have seen debuting on the first phone – aptly named T-Mobile G1. The guys from Big in Japan, the company behind ShopSavvy, have built the application exclusively for Android platform. After winning Android Developer Challenge, the application has been [...]

Back in July we reported on acquisition of a Russian contextual advertising company Begun (one of the largest companies working in the field in Russia) by Google. At the time we suggested that a combination of contextual advertising sold by Begun and Google AdSense could very well serve to monopolize the market of such ads [...]

So the first day of G1 phone for T-Mobile official shipping is coming to its end soon and the first owners have already started playing with their shiny new toys (well, maybe not exactly shiny but at least new and supposedly rewarding in terms of software). And since this phone is about the software and [...]