Cell Phone - Paradigm Shift

This is a game changing paradigm shift in cell phone security. The NSA has taken the Android platform and built the most secure cell phone in the world. The result is known as 'Fishbowl.'

This is what security conscious people have been waiting for!

AT&T Abandons T-Mobile Merger

Best technical news of 2011. AT&T has officially abandoned its plan to buy T-Mobile. It will cost AT&T $4 billion.

Awesome!

Galaxy Nenus

The new Google Nexus has been announced. This is the new Android 4.0 device (aka, Ice Cream Sandwich). This phone blows the iPhone out of the water!

Steve Ballmer Disrespects Android

Steve Ballmer does it again. At the Web 2.0 conference, He said "You don't have to be a computer scientist to use a Windows Phone, but you do to use an Android phone."

Seriously? Has he ever tried to correct a Windows problem? Android is a very easy to use platform.

Insomuch that no one buys Windows phones, one might say that Mr. Ballmer is jealous. Fair enough. But saying that Android is hard to use goes beyond sanity. Something that Mr. Ballmer tends to do pretty regularly.

Kindle Fire

Amazon announced the Kindle Fire today. It is their answer to the iPad. It is an Android device that is light and durable with access to all of Amazon's books, movies and TV shows.

This may well be the first product that actually challenges the iPad.

I really would not want to be Barns and Noble right now!

Price Transparency

Retailers hate price transparency! A Wall Street Journal article details a guy pricing a Garmin for his girlfriend at Best Buy using the camera on his Android phone as a scanner. (This is an application that I use all the time.) The Garmin was $184.85 at Best Buy and $106.75 at Amazon with free shipping and no tax. He was able to purchase the Garmin from Amazon while he was still at Best Buy.

This is a paradigm shift that retailers had better get a handle on fast.

Nexus S With Gingerbread

The new Nexus S has been released with the Gingerbread OS. This is so vastly superior to the iPhone that it is like night and day.

The only problem with this near constant release of new Android OS phones is that it is getting really expensive for me :-)

Android Now Number One

Engadget today published a story about Android. Turns out that it is now the top selling smartphone operating system. I have been using Android since it first became available and love it!

Game Changer

This is going to be a game changer in how we watch TV. Google TV could very well change the world. Get ready!

Nexus One Unboxing

Does every Nexus One come with a set of ninjas?

Nexus One On The Way?

This is exciting! It looks like the rumors of the Nexus One release on January 5th are shaping up.

I definitely need one of these :-)

New Google Phone

This may be the most exciting technology news in months. Google will be releasing their own native Android device in January. It will be called the "Nexus One." If you are a geek, then you know where the name came from and that it is one of the coolest names for a device ever.

The above photo came from a tweet by Cory O'Brien, an account manager at a San Francisco Bay Area marketing agency. His firm does not represent Google. It seems that the phone has been spotted by several reliable source on the Google campus this month.

I can't wait to pick up one of these!

Android And Chrome OS To Converge

According to Sergey Brin Android and the Chrome OS "will likely converge over time." Eric Schmidt added that it is too early to tell how the OSes will be used and it will just unfold as it goes along. This is the natural flow of open-source.

This will be very cool to watch.

I Love Android

I love Google! The Android platform is no different. For each new release of Android, version 1.5 (Cupcake), 1.6 (Donut), 2.0 (Eclair), Google puts a foam facsimile on the front lawn.

Well, yesterday, the Eclair was delivered. Very funny video.

T-Mobile Sidekick Debacle

In the recent T-Mobile Sidekick debacle, Microsoft had a server failure and lost all of their customer data. Honestly, isn't data backup covered the first week in Computer Science 101? Microsoft has said that there is no way to get the data back. How is this even possible?

For anyone that suffered from Microsoft's negligence, do yourself a favor and take T-Mobile up on their offer for an HTC/Google phone.

Dell Going Android

Today Dell announced that they will be making an Android handset for AT&T. This should be interesting.

Dell suffers miserably at customer service and they are now teaming up with AT&T, the one reason many people have not moved to the iPhone.

I love Google and I love the Android platform but this is not going to turn out well for anyone!

Donut Time

It looks like it is donut time. Android 1.6, code named Donut, is being pushed to T-mobile users beginning today.

T-Mobile Mytouch 3Gs

The T-Mobile Mytouch 3Gs is shipping early. This new Android device replaces the G1. I would normally be very interested in one of these but it does not have the keyboard that my G1 has.

Rumor has it that the screen is much brighter than the G1. Very cool.

Donut On The Way

You have to love the code names that Google gives to its development code. Android 1.5 was named Cupcake. It turns out that Android 2.0 will be named Donut.

Bill Gates - More Of The Same

I suppose that this was to be expected. Following Steve Ballmer's usual colorful statement about anything not made by Microsoft, Bill Gates today said about Chrome OS "in some ways I am surprised people are acting like there's something new. I mean, you've got Android running on Netbooks. It's got a browser in it." Gates further went on to get another dig in at Google by saying that "the more vague they are, the more interesting it is."

For those of you that don't remember, the first time Mr. Gates saw an iPod he said "that only does on the Mac - doesn't it?"

What this really points out is how much Chrome OS is rattling Microsoft's cage!