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Google Voice has 1.4 million users, Apple execs hint tablet might be for video, Bing mobile launches

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Mobile, Computing | by Samuel Axon | Fri Oct 30, 2009 7:20PM | 1 comment

Google handed over Google Voice usage data when it was requested by regulators. It turns out the young service already has around 1.4 million users, and Google plans to expand the service to foreign markets at some point in the future.

A Canadian analyst took notes on a meeting with Apple executives. The executives talked down the importance of eReaders and talked up the company's coming attention to video content, potentially implying that the upcoming Apple tablet will be for video and not magazines and news. There's a lot of evidence to the contrary, though.

A cell phone browser-optimized version of Microsoft's Bing search engine is now online at m.bing.com. It offers simplified and uglified versions of many of the same features you'll get from the regular Bing. There's also a new version of of the search engine for touchscreen devices.

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external link How Google Voice Is Growing - BusinessWeek [businessweek.com]
external link How Google Voice Is Growing (Arik… [Techmeme]
external link Apple tablet: For video, not books? -… [brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com]
external link Techmeme: Apple tablet: For video, not books?… [techmeme.com]
external link Bing for mobile now live at m.bing.com [Live Search]
external link Bing for mobile now live at m.bing.com… [Techmeme]

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srinio external link (7:53 AM on Tue Nov 3, 2009)

Hi, nice and informative post, thank you very much for putting the points in a plain and easy way. Once again thank you.

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