Let me first start with Congratulating Steve Jobs and his team for taking the First Spot for being the worlds most admired companies. The “Worlds Most Admired Companies” list that Fortune prepares every year. Its a ranking of corporate reputation. In other words, its not what consumers thinks of Corporate America, its what Corporate America thinks of Corporate America.
Fortune picked 4,200 Executives, Directors and Industry Analysts and asked them what are the companies you admire the most? Result of that is the list of TOP 50 Worlds Most Admired Companies.

As …

I must say this “Non touchscreen devices are out dated. We all prefer a smart-phone with a touchscreen and has a great user interface“. Now-a-days, having a touchscreen on a device is not considered as a high-end device. As touchscreens are getting more affordable, companies are including touchscreens in mid-range phones.

Gartner Inc believes that, “worldwide market for touchscreen mobile devices will surpass 362.7 million units in 2010, 96.8 % increase from 2009 sales of 184.3 million units“. Basically doubling last year numbers. In a matter of 2+ year, touchscreen (capacitive …

Yesterday we have posted an article mentioning that Apple filed a lawsuit against HTC for infringing on 20 Apple patents related to the iPhone’s user interface, underlying architecture and hardware. When HTC heard about this, HTC mentioned the following..

this is apparently coming totally out of the blue for them, since Apple hasn’t even served the complaint yet. We have been innovating and patenting our own technology for 13 years. We’ve just learned that Apple submitted over 700 pages of exhibits to the District Court, which is a little nuts. In …

Remember, recently Google announced a new features that allows advertiser to add phone number to their mobile ads. Adding the phone number will make, customers to connect with the local business with just a click.

Now, Google is expanding Click-to-call phone numbers for national advertisers. Now, advertisers can add a national phone number to the last line of their existing ads. This way when a customer searches for a business and looks at your ads, they can just tap / click on your ads phone number to get connected.
For customers, if …

Google just acquired Picnik, an online image editing tool, for an undisclosed amount, the companies have announced on there blogs (Google & Picnik). The terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Picnik started in 2005, giving users a fast, fun and easy to use and powerful set of photo editing tools for editing, sharing and printing images using any internet browser on any computer platform. Picnik is also integrated with Picasa Web Albums, Facebook, Flickr, Yahoo! Mail & Photobucket. For all current Picnik users, nothing is going to change – Your …

Update (03/02/2010) – According to sources who are familiar with the matter informed that CDMA version of Nexus One will be available from march 23rd 2010.
The current Google’s Nexus One is GSM/HSPA version, which is manufactured by HTC corporation. The model number for Google’s Nexus One GSM version is PB99100.
FCC approached by a CDMA version which is manufactured by HTC Corporation with a model number PB99300. Mostly likely this will be a CDMA version of Nexus One. In our previous post we have mentioned that Google is planning for a …

If you are a regular reader of this blog you might have already learned worldwide smartphone numbers of 2009 which were provided by Canalys, which we have published back on 11th Feb, 2010. If you missed that article you can find it here – On a worldwide level Apple’s iPhone OS beats Microsoft’s Windows Mobile OS.
Now, lets learn some worldwide smartphone annual number of 2009 from Gartner an information technology research and advisory firm headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut.
If you look at Canalys and Gartner annual number they looks pretty similar. …

Here come one more member of Google family app called Google Earth for all Android powered devices. Google mentioned that, this is the fastest mobile version of Google Earth and with a smooth framerate and a beautiful 800X48 screen.

Running this app on Nexus One is very impressive becuase of its 1GHz processor, advanced 3D graphics, and Android 2.1. Having this app in your Nexus One device is nothing but carrying a Globe in your pocket. Which will respond to your commands. With its voice recognition, just speak a location it …

We heard about Google Voice and we know few features of Google Voice. With out any doubt, Google Voice is an incredible service. To know more and all about Google Voice please watch the below videos. Currently Google Voice App is available for Blackberry, iPhone and Android Powered Phones.

Find more videos on Google Voice

Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Google Goggles Lead Engineer Hartmut Neven  demonstrated a prototype version of Google Goggles at Mobile World Congress 2010, Barcelona. This prototype Google Goggle version have integrated Google’s machine translation and image recognition technologies in it. With which you could take a snap of German language text image and get it translated in English with in few seconds.

You may wonder what’s happening in the background. On the simplest level, this prototype connects the phone’s camera to an optical character recognition (OCR) engine, recognizes the image as …

Google CEO Eric Schmidt at Mobile World Congress 2010, Barcelona was very exited to announce the accelerating growth of Android based devices. The search giant mentioned that, phone manufactures who loaded Android OS on phones shipping more than 60,000 phone a day.

We are now shipping more than 60,000 Android devices in the Android industry per day and that number has doubled over the last quarter.
The growth rate is accelerating and we hope the growth rate, as well as the demand, will continue for a very long time

In our recent …