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  • Eric Schmidt Presides Over The Marriage Of The 50-Year-Old TV And The Teenage Web

    Eric Schmidt Presides Over The Marriage Of The 50-Year-Old TV And The Teenage Web

    Posted on May 20, 2010 | No Comments
    "We've been waiting a long time for today," says Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who is presiding over a power panel of CEOs helping to make Google TV possible. The panel, at Google I/O, includes the CEOs of Sony, Best Buy, Echostar, Adobe, Logitech, and, of course, Google. He needs all of them, as well as developers, to make his new Google TV a hit. Google TV will be built into a new Sony TV coming out this fall in time for the holiday shopping season, as well a Logitech TV companion box which can be hooked up to existing TVs with an HDMI port. It is Google's attempt to bring together the 50-year-old TV-watching experience with the Web. It does that in a variety of ways,from a universal search box which searches both TV and the Web to opening up the TV as an application platform for developers and media companies to enhance their video offerings. Its ambition is to bring the Web into the TV in a new way.

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  • Google’s Larry Page says there’s ’something wrong’ if your Android phone’s battery doesn’t last all day

    Google’s Larry Page says there’s ’something wrong’ if your Android phone’s battery doesn’t last all day

    Posted on May 19, 2010 | No Comments
    Cellphones and batteries. It's an eternal struggle, but one that Google's Larry Page says should at least be manageable. That topic arose at the recent Google Zeitgeist forum, where Page responded to a question about battery life on Android phones by saying that he actually found it to be "pretty good," and that "if you are not getting a day, there is something wrong." That prompted Google CEO Eric Schmidt to chime in and explain that the main culprit for excessive battery use on the phones is the transmit / receive circuit, which he says some apps are are "not particularly smart about" using.

    Google's Larry Page says there's 'something wrong' if your Android phone's battery doesn't last all day originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 19 May 2010 14:49:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Google: Android Market now serving 30,000 apps

    Google: Android Market now serving 30,000 apps

    Posted on March 16, 2010 | No Comments
    At the most recent Mobile World Congress, Google CEO Eric Schmidt revealed that the company's partners are now selling over 60,000 Android handsets on a daily basis. With that kind of growth rate, it's no wonder that the size of the Android Market is quickly increasing in its slipstream. While Google doesn't publicly show how many applications there are in Android Market, a Google representative this morning informed me that the application store now serves approximately 30,000 free and paid apps in total.

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  • Google dude: “Desktops dead in three years”

    Google dude: “Desktops dead in three years”

    Posted on March 4, 2010 | No Comments
    A charming young buck by the name of John Herlihy of Google Europe believes, like most people in the Western World that desktop PCs will be dead in the next few years. However, he believes they'll become irrelevant by the year 2013, which may put a damper on some PC makers' sales forecasts.

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  • The Complaint: Apple’s Patent Lawsuit Against HTC Is All About Android

    The Complaint: Apple’s Patent Lawsuit Against HTC Is All About Android

    Posted on March 2, 2010 | No Comments
    Earlier today, Apple issued a press release stating that it has filed suit against cell phone manufacturer HTC for patent infringement. No mention of Android or Google was in the press release. But one of the actual legal complaints, which we've obtained and embedded below, makes no bones about it. As expected, this lawsuit is about Android. HTC, of course, is one of the largest manufacturers of Android handsets. The complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Delaware targets: "certain mobile communication devices including cellular phones and smart phones, including at least phones incorporating the Android Operating System (collectively, “the Accused Products”)." By going after the biggest Android manufacturer, Apple is putting all Android cell phone makers—and by extension Google— on notice. Is there any doubt now why Google CEO Eric Schmidt had to resign from Apple's board last year? The battle lines are now drawn.

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  • Google Goggles Getting OCR Translations

    Google Goggles Getting OCR Translations

    Posted on February 16, 2010 | No Comments
    In his keynote speech today at the Mobile Web Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Google CEO Eric Schmidt showed off what could end up being a crucial tool for anyone trying to figure out a menu in a different language or a street sign in a foreign country. Google Goggles, which creates search queries based on images instead of typed-in keywords, will soon start to be able to translate from foreign languages using Google Translate. It will do this using optical character recognition to first convert the images of letters into words it can understand, and then put those through Google translate. Schmidt showed an image of an Android phone translating "Spring salad with wild herbs and parmesan cheese wrapped in bacon" from the German. (MobileCrunch editor Greg Kumparak took the photo at left). Of course, Google Translate often gets the translations wrong, to humorous effect. But even a partial translation is better than nothing when you don't speak the language.

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  • Sergey Brin: Android and Chrome OS ‘will likely converge over time’

    Sergey Brin: Android and Chrome OS ‘will likely converge over time’

    Posted on November 23, 2009 | No Comments
    When it comes to nerd obsessions, the only thing that can trump a fictional tablet developed by battling left-coast legends is the promise of a revolutionary OS from Google that relies upon nothing but a browser and the dreams of a young Larry Ellison. Don't even start with your Korean product waifs as we're trying to keep the discussion in the realm of possibilities. Now, with the weekend over, you've probably experienced the same sense of ennui we've all felt at having downloaded and tested a copy of Chrome OS. To be fair, that meh-ness is kind of what you'd expect from a browser-based OS that's meant to get out of your way. Still, it's hard not to wonder where Android and its growing application base fits into Google's long-term OS strategy especially after seeing several ARM-based smartbook prototypes running Google's smartphone OS. Fortunately, Google co-founder Sergey Brin shed some light on this topic in a candid statement following the Chrome OS event. According to CNET, Brin said that Android and the Chrome OS "will likely converge over time," noting the common Webkit and Linux foundation of both operating systems. It's unclear when this might occur however. In fact, listening to Google CEO Eric Schmidt attempt to explain the difference between Google's operating systems in a recent CNET interview leaves us wondering if Google has a clear idea of its target markets as smartphone and laptop functionality continues to converge across devices. Schmidt concedes that it's too early to tell how the OSes will be used and prefers not to "prejudge the success" of each. "The future will unfold as it does," he says, and the open-source community will determine the natural fit. Check the interview after the break -- the Android vs. Chrome OS waffling begins at the 16:30 remaining mark of the 19 minute and 11 second interview.

    [Original image courtesy of Rich Dellinger]

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  • Google’s Eric Schmidt On Magical Potential Of Mobile + Cloud

    Google’s Eric Schmidt On Magical Potential Of Mobile + Cloud

    Posted on October 29, 2009 | No Comments
    I was sorting through my notes and video footage of the Google press event around the launch of Google Maps Navigation for Android 2.0 and saw this gem. It's a minute or so of footage of Google CEO Eric Schmidt talking about the potential of today's mobile platforms when combined with the cloud.

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  • Schmidt: “Android Adoption Is About To Explode”

    Schmidt: “Android Adoption Is About To Explode”

    Posted on October 15, 2009 | No Comments
    During Google's third quarter earnings conference call today, one message came out loud and clear: Google's mobile strategy is starting to pay off. "Android adoption is about to explode," declared CEO Eric Schmidt, explaining that all the "necessary conditions" are set for growth: There are now 12 Android phones out there (most recently the Motorola Cliq) across 32 carriers in 26 countries. The whole Android strategy, of course, is to offer an low-cost, fully-featured, open-source OS and hand that to the cell phone manufacturers so that they can concentrate more on designing desirable hardware. And what does Google get out of all that? More mobile searches, which could be one of its biggest sources of growth in the coming years.

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  • Oops! Verizon’s two Android phones get caught on camera

    Oops! Verizon’s two Android phones get caught on camera

    Posted on October 6, 2009 | No Comments
    Duhwaaaah? Verizon was workin' all hard this morning to ensure that no one slipped up and mentioned any names when it came to the devices that would emerge from the VZW/Google partnership. Then, not even an hour later, they put a picture of Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam holding two separate devices in their own press release. Bloops!

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  • Google CEO Eric Schmidt Resigns From Apple Board. Surprised?

    Google CEO Eric Schmidt Resigns From Apple Board. Surprised?

    Posted on August 3, 2009 | No Comments
    Lots of people will be arguing today that this was inevitable, but the news comes faster than expected. Google CEO Eric Schmidt is no longer going to sit on Apple's Board of Directors, nearly 3 years after accepting a seat. The resignation comes a few days after the FCC sent letters to Google, Apple and AT&T inquiring why Apple denied the Google Voice application from its iPhone App Store. Here's Apple's statement on the matter: (after the jump)

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