Google has been working hard to pull together a huge alliance of partners that will support the technology behind its mobile phone platform.
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Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) has been working hard to pull together a huge alliance of partners that will support the technology behind its mobile phone platform.
Thanks to the combination of touch-screen technology and ever faster wireless networks, the mobile phone is becoming the platform of choice for techno-entrepreneurs.
The Finnish handset maker has announced it may cut 6, 000 jobs, or 38% of its research and development staff, as it prepares to adopt the Windows Phone 7 mobile platform across all future smartphone offerings.
Moreover, there was far more uncertainty then about the viability of Windows Phone as a mobile platform than there is now.
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We also see tighter integration of Skype and its smartphone platform, Windows Phone 7, which could boost adoption of its fledgling mobile platform.
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On a scale of usability, it falls just beneath Windows Phone 8 - the third-place mobile platform it has no choice to but to parry with.
Focus areas listed in the jobs descriptions cover nearly every aspect of mobile development, including data synchronization, social networking, cloud services, search and maps, mobile commerce and improvements to the Windows Phone 7 applications platform.
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Facebook has consistently denied the development of any sort of dedicated Facebook phone hardware, but continues to emphasize its mobile platform presence.
The South Korean company has rushed to remedy that with its own smart-phone platform, Bada, and by producing mobile phones that use Google's low-cost Android operating system.
And, indeed, in that same six months, these developers created more than 100 apps for the platform, including mobile clients for iOS, Android and even Windows Phone and Symbian, desktop apps for Mac, Windows and Linux and browser extensions for Chrome and Firefox.
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Andreessen said Glass would become a platform like the web browser and could become as ubiquitous as the mobile phone.
Instead of relying on paper and phone calls, its platform integrates e-mail, social media and mobile technology to manage doctor-patient relations.
Such support may be unlikely from Nokia, which considered adopting Android as its smartphone platform but selected Windows Phone out of a desire to keep the mobile market competitive.
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Their new platform debuts this August, including a mobile version for easy access on your phone.
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