Google Settles Buzz Privacy Suit

Google has settled a lawsuit against it over its Buzz social networking service. When it launched in February, Google automatically used Gmail customers’ Google Contacts to build a set of followers. Many complained that this was done without their permission and gave away their email addresses to strangers. Google changed the privacy settings quickly, but the failed launch was enough for some to sue. Rather than pay any claimants, Google is setting aside $8.5 million to be used for attorney’s ..read more

Get Google Android Cheap

They made handsets for all the big-name mobile networks to make up themselves. Now they make some of the preeminent phones around. Subsequently it’s fascinating that obscure HUAWEI are now heading in the same direction. They make the mobile internet dongles used by millions around the world so this handset is an exhilarating launch. Called (Read More)

Google Being Sued Over Nexus One Issues

Another week, another suit. This time, Google’s being pulled into court to fight not in favor of a class action lawsuit that states Google infringed their contract between them and their clients. Nathan Nabors of Florida is the man leading the charge as he undergoes Google misled purchasers on its features – as some of (Read More)

Adobe Confirms Not All Android 2.2 Phones Get Flash

Adobe confirmed to Phone Scoop in a call that though Android 2.2 is required for Flash Player Mobile 10.1 to work, that doesn’t mean that all Android 2.2 devices will be able to access and run Flash Player Mobile. According to Adobe, smartphones need to have a minimum set of specifications in order to run Flash PLlayer Mobile, including a fast enough processor and graphics support. Adobe’s web site notes that devices with a VGA screen need to have at ..read more

Apple Special Music Event 2010 round-up

Once again Steve Jobs put sneaker to stage and at the Apple Special Music Event 2010 wowed the crowed with new gorgeous new hardware, stunning new software, and… services of a sort. The big stories were iOS 4.1 and iOS 4.2, the new iPod touch, iPod nano, and Apple TV, and iTunes 10 with its Ping music social network, and of course, what we didn’t get.

The full story… well, here it is in handy bullet-point form.

Event coverage Apple Special Music Event ..read more

Steve Jobs: 230,000 iOS activations a day, not counting upgrades like Google. Google responds.

During his 2010 Apple special music event numbers breakdown, Steve Jobs said that Apple is activating 230,000 iOS devices a day. He made sure to point out those were new activations and said some of their “friends” (read: Google) are counting upgrades in their numbers (200,000 Android activations a day).

“If we counted upgrades in our numbers they’d be way higher than 230,000″

Jobs thinks, using that metric, Apple is ahead of everybody else.

Google, however, told Fortune that Jobs has it wrong:

“The ..read more

Samsung to Focus on Android and Bada

Samsung today indicated that moving forward, Google’s Android mobile operating system and its own bada mobile operating system will be the focus of its smartphone efforts. “We are Prioritizing our Android platform. Android is very open and flexible, and there is a consumer demand for it,” YH Lee, head of marketing at Samsung Mobile, told Reuters in an interview. This focus on Android and bada comes at the expense of Microsoft’s Window Phone 7. Samsung plans to introduce one WP7 ..read more

Do you still regularly sync your iPhone with iTunes?

Tomorrow at their annual special music event, Apple might announce a new version of iTunes (iTunes X?) — maybe with $0.99 TV rentals or streaming cloud music — and thinking about that made me realize I hardly if ever sync my iPhone with iTunes anymore.

Just before iPhone 4 came out the Apple Store swapped out my 3GS due to cracks along the dock that had been preventing me from syncing. Because I couldn’t sync, I’d been downloading apps directly onto ..read more

Motorola Earmarks $3.5 Billion for Handset Unit Spinoff

Motorola has said that it will set aside $3.5 billion for the handset and set-top box unit that it plans to spin off during the first quarter of 2011. Motorola will split its remaining businesses into two entities, with the phone and cable box business forming one, and its enterprise computing business forming the other. Motorola wants the freshly created mobile unit to have the best chance for success possible, so it will part ways with a $3.5 billion cash ..read more

CDMA/Verizon chip-maker looking for iPhone expert?

Qualcomm, which makes both the CDMA chipsets used by Verizon and Sprint, and a new hybrid GSM/CDMA chip that could be used on all 4 US networks, is looking for a little iPhone-related help:

“The iPhone has no secret for you?” the job listing posted earlier this month reads. “Well, that’s what you think… join us and develop the most challenging product of your life!”

The listing has since been pulled but in today’s Google-cached world, there’s no taking it back.

So is ..read more

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