Tag: Android
Bye Bye Blue Screen! Google’s New OS Coming this Fall…
by Tahoe Designer on Jun.05, 2010, under Design, Technology
Google (GOOG) plans to launch its own operating system for laptop PCs sometime in the “late fall,” an executive said at the Computex PC show Wednesday morning.
Reuters reports that Sundar Pichai, Google’s vice-president for product management, did not say which month, only specifying the “the North American autumn or fall period.”
Google will not [...]
State of the Mobile Market, Smart or Not?
by Tahoe Designer on May.25, 2010, under Banter, Design, Personal, Technology
As of Jan 2010, comScore released a report stating that 43,000,000 smartphone users (19%) exist amongst a sea of 234 million mobile subscribers – only 1 in 5 phones in use are smartphones, but they are on the rise… 18% increase in smartphone users from the previous quarter. That is about 7.75 million new smartphone [...]
Google… the name brand for everything but the kitchen sink!
by Tahoe Designer on May.21, 2010, under Design, Entertainment, Technology, Toys
Google made some waves yesterday when it announced the new Google TV platform, backed by major players like Sony, Logitech, Intel, Dish Network, and Best Buy. Built on Android and featuring the Chrome browser with a full version of Flash Player 10.1, Google TV is supposed to bring “the web to your TV and your TV to the web,” in Google’s words.
Neighborhoodie + Mobile Social Interaction + AI = Spooky Cool Marketing!
by Tahoe Designer on May.05, 2010, under Banter, Design, Fashion, Lake Tahoe, Personal, Technology
I recently saw the cinematic version of Sherlock Holmes with Robert Downey Jr. and due to the lack of entertainment my mind began to wander ever so slightly… I began to think about Sherlock Holmes and his incredible sense of deduction and how that could be leveraged in every day life to make ones decisions [...]
Star Droid Star Gazing App From Google
by Tahoe Designer on May.11, 2009, under Design, Toys
Google is planning to release a star gazing application for the Android platform in the next few weeks. Star Droid will allow users to use their Android phones to identify star constellations in the night sky.
The Star Droid app will use Android’s built-in GPS technology to match the position of the device with existing maps [...]
