Google’s Eric Schmidt says Android is profitable, could eventually be a $10 billion business
It may not exactly be a huge surprise given the recent market share numbers , but Google CEO Eric Schmidt has recently confirmed that Android is, in fact, profitable for the company.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: advertising, ceo, cover-the-cost, engadget, entry, eric, eric-schmidt, ericschmidt, money, perspective, revenue, rubin, schmidt, source
Google Earth 3.1 for iOS gets its ocean layer, Eric Schmidt’s undersea base conspicuously absent
Google's recent addition of ocean layer content and ocean bathymetry (which, we were shocked to discover, had nothing to do with bathing) meant that Android users finally got access to underwater locales on the Google Earth . No need to feel left out anymore, iOS users -- Google Earth 3.1 for iPod Touch, iPad and the iPhone is finally yours as well, with over a hundred pictures and videos and native support for the Retina display. Check out the App Store to get started, or (if it's your wont) simply snap the QR code after the break
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: apple, earth, eric, eric-schmidt, ericschmidt, google earth 3.1, googleearth, ipad, iphone, ipod-touch, sea, underwater
Apple vs. Google gets personal: "Steve Jobs simply hates Eric Schmidt" (video)
Image Credit: Daniel Adel, New York Times Nothing sells papers (or ads) like turning a little corporate competition into something personal. Case in point, a New York Times piece from the weekend titled "Apple's Spat With Google Is Getting Personal," that opened with this rather ominous, one-sentence paragraph: "It looked like the beginning of a beautiful friendship." Cue the orchestra. The lengthy piece chronicling the relationship between the Silicon Valley titans was formed by two dozen interviews with industry watchers, investors, and current and former employees covering a timeline spread that began with Google and Apple working in harmony to prevent Microsoft's domination of online services and mobile devices
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: Battle, credit, ericschmidt, fight, iphone, lawsuit, result, schmidt, silicon, stevejobs
Live from Eric Schmidt’s keynote at MWC 2010
We've just been ushered into the rather gigantic Auditorium 1 of Hall 5 at Mobile World Congress 2010 where we're awaiting none other than Google chief Eric Schmidt to take the stage. What's in store -- Buzz news?
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: buzz, congress, ericschmidt, mobile, mwc, mwc 2010, schmidt