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Google Introducing Prioritized Email Starting Tuesday

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On Tuesday Google is planning on releasing an email prioritizing feature which where Google bots automatically decide what emails are important and which ones are not and then arranges them accordingly. Google is calling this feature “Priority Inbox” and should start rolling out to all users starting Tuesday. This is only a experimental or beta … Read more

Android Coming To An iPhone 4 Near You

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You Steve Jobs is somewhere furious that someone would desecrate the iPhone 4 by putting Android on it, but hey, to each their own we say. We have have been watching the Android movement across WinMo devices and even Mobility Digest’s Ramon aka “The General” has reported nothing but great things about the install and … Read more

Google’s Chrome to Phone simplifies communication from desktop to phone

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The second announcement from Google’s press conference today in San Francisco is slightly less exciting than the updates to its Android voice commands but still worth mentioning. They’ve added an extension for its Chrome browser called Chrome to Phone, which upon installation inserts a button to your Chrome Browser that sends anything from links, to … Read more

Google updates Voice Actions for Android

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To cut down on texting-related car crashes, Google has updated its Voice Search capabilities with Voice Actions for Android. Google’s Voice Search commands were already pretty slick, but now instead of just utilitarian tasks like making a call or searching the web, you can initiate, address, and compose emails and texts with the push of … Read more

Windows Phone 7 Speech Recognition Hits and Misses

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With Google unveiling additional, beefed up “Voice Actions” today Microsoft needed to step up to the plate during its Backstage video chat.  Sadly it didn’t end up that way and the gap between what you can do through Google Voice Actions and Windows Phone 7 voice recognition is a huge one.  We kept hearing the … Read more

Imminent Google announcement on August 12th

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I’m not on Google’s mailing list. Hell, I’m a devout Gmail user, and I’m always dead last to get any of the latest features and roll-outs. But the fellas over at Gizmodo do not suffer the same indifference from Google Headquarters, as they just received some fancy news in their inboxes. They’re reporting that Google … Read more

Under the Hood

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I’m not sure if everyone is holding to the schedule, but August 3rd is my day to post my list of actively used apps (based on Doug Simmons’ clever idea for Mobility Digest’s writers to reveal what they’re running). I’ve got the AT&T version of the Nexus One, running Android 2.2, otherwise known as Froyo. I’ve installed and then uninstalled a fair amount of apps, but the ones listed below have made the cut. For now. Everything I’ve listed is free. I have yet to pay for an app because I haven’t needed to. Most of the links are Android Market links but a few I had to wing. I have to mention that this phone is hands-down the sleekest, most powerful, and easiest-to-use phone I’ve ever owned. Acquiring these apps was no more difficult than browsing around the Anrdoid Market, reading reviews, and taking a few chances.

Street Slide: Microsoft innovation or just copy paste?

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Our buddy Wen over at WMPoweruser.com has thrown up some you-tubage of an interesting new street view being developed by Microsoft called Street Slide.  This is really awesome stuff that looks like it’s getting prepped for the mobile world.  The tech is already being ported over to iPhone’s in the video so a Windows Phone future wouldn’t be too far fetched.  The tech ups Google’s street view by leaps and bounds.  This is very obvious.  By lining up contiguous street views for an easy to navigate and consumer relative views of business and addresses being used in the extra space there is massive appeal for navigating in and around unfamiliar streets.

I think this represents a change in Microsoft’s R&D rotation from incubation period with Windows Phone 7 and the surrounding services.  With the release right around the corner, any aces up the mobile teams’ collective sleeves should be dropping anytime now.  This is also represents a big push for Microsoft services over Google on third party OS’s like IOS where Bing and Google are currently jockeying for top spot.  A consistent mapping program between the iPhone and Windows Phone 7 could be the unlikely partnership to dislodge Google from their lofty top spot they’re currently lauding over the rest of the search and mobile industry.  I think this is going to be the beginning of a major services marketing campaign by Microsoft over the next year.  With their “3 screens and a cloud” crap they’ve been spewing all over everyone they have to get their ducks in a row and it’s standout tech like this that can help people make the jump from Googling it to Binging it.  Hit up the source link or head past the break for video evidence of Street Slides incredible awesomeness.

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