Motorola to roll out Android smartphones in China

By Editor on March 12, 2010 · Leave a Comment

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Android smartphones incorporated with the Bing search engine will be rolled out by US vendor Motorola in China by the end of this month. Bing search and map functions will be added by Motorola to its Android-powered smartphones, as part of a global alliance just signed with Microsoft. A new widget that also includes the Microsoft search engine along with a pre-loaded Bing bookmark on its mobile browsers will be included by the company.

A new feature on the Android handsets for China was announced by the company in the month of January in the wake of the Google-Chinese censorship debacle. The new article would have enabled the users to select their own search provider, including local search champion Baidu.

The first customized Android device supporting Wi-Fi and WAPI, the Motorola XT701 was launched by W-CDMA operator China Unicom earlier this week.

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Apple hailed valuable partner by Google at MWC2010

By Editor on February 16, 2010 · Leave a Comment

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Hailing Apple as a very close and valuable partner, Google made it clear that the company sees no reason behind the rumors that Microsoft’s Bing search engine may replace Google on the iPhone.

According to Vic Gundotra, who leads Google’s mobile engineering and who was present at a roundtable at industry trade fair Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the relationship between the two companies is stable and as far as the Nexus Two is concerned, no decisions had been made yet about how many Google phones there would be or who would manufacture them.

Nexus One was made by Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC and it was for the first time that Google has lent its brand to a consumer hardware product.

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Google might be replaced by Bing in Apple’s iPhone

By Editor on January 21, 2010 · Leave a Comment

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Apple iPhone customers could carry out their search operations on Bing instead of Google, if the negotiation for the deal between Apple and Microsoft works after which Bing will become default search engine on the iPhone.

Currently, the users can use Yahoo instead of Google but have to perform the switch manually. It has also been reported that the talks are underway for weeks and there are chances that the deal might fall apart.

A Bing application for the iPhone has already been created by Microsoft.

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Bing becomes the default search engine of Verizon’s Blackberries

By Editor on December 21, 2009 · Leave a Comment

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Wikipedia and Google would be replaced by Bing as the default search engine on some of the Blackberry smartphones of Verizon Wireless under a search agreement inked between Verizon and Microsoft in January.

According to Verizon Wireless spokesman Jeffrey Nelson, in order to use the search engine of their choice, the subscribers will have to simply type in the URL of the search engine they prefer, mark it as a “favorite” and *SNAP* . The carrier’s action covers several BlackBerry models and the update affects the devices’ Web browser.

The change was first noticed by CrackBerry.com when the users of the site reported Microsoft’s Bing as the only available search provider. However, a cursory test showed that Google and other options as still available.

Earlier, Verizon Wireless in July remotely pushed the Slacker Radio application to subscribers toting the BlackBerry Storm.