Well PSK is telling the tale about how difficult Ebay is being right now. It seems the Ebay doesn’t want to allow Google CheckOut in its mix of accepted and recognized methods of payment. As speculated this move shows a sign of fear on behalf of Ebay. I wonder what will Amazon do?

LG is said to be releasing both pink and white versions of the VX8500 a.k.a the “Chocolate”, of course for those of us who read EM we already knew that. What we didn’t know was that LG is going to be releasing premium versions of the phone with more features. LG was open with the color announcement but tight lipped on the features. We’ll just have to wait and see.

3.2 Megapixels for Verizon Wireless as the company has decided to give the go for the Samsung SCH A990. The A990 is not pretty in comparison to some of the other phones out there but it packs a punch. Speaking of punch (or lack of) Cingular needs to step their game up as it seems every other US carrier has something to write home to mother about. And those other carriers are waving their flags high. Speaking of promotion and advertising it’s so many JD Power & Associates badges I can’t tell if I’m buying a car or a phone.

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Google says it wants to step up and provide better search results for mobile phones. Mobile phones in many developing countries are more common than PC’s. In addition to expanding its reach Google wants to provide mobile users crisp, relevant results. Google’s Dipchand “Deep” Nishar, who heads the company’s mobile division understands that when on the go, users don’t have time to wade through bottomless pages of results. When searching for a movie they more than likely want tickets or theaters, not fan pages or the Internet Movie Database.

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Russian mobile phone users are in for a treat as now Google is providing language services to Russian mobile phone and hand-held computer users in their native language. Google News and personalized home pages get the Russian treatment too.

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I figured this was enough to knock the dust from the Google category. .It seems google has developed a technology which will enable the search engine to listen to the television and the ferret out releated inforrmation based on what it hears without any help from users.

Googles titles this as “Mass personalization”. A company by the name of Shazam has a similar service which can listen to 30 seconds of music and return you a text message with the name of the recording artist and the song title. Google on the other hand needs only 5 seconds.

Of course, Google says don’t worry about privacy. The technology is not allowed to work in reverse and will not be able to do the same with conversations. All in all even though the technology is there, Andrew Frank a Gartner research analyst believes this technology won’t make it to the light of day.

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Source: Esato

Mobile phone users in Europe will get access to Google Maps starting in June due to the service being pre-installed on BenQ-Siemens handsets starting in June 2006.BenQ users will get the usual goodies offered by Google Maps including restaurants, galleries, stores, hotspots and whatever you can imaginie with an available address. In addition to address information users will have access to directions, maps and satellie images from Google Earth on their mobiles.

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BenQ Mobile joins with Google in preinstalling mobile search services on select mobile phones.

BenQ Mobile also will offer Services over Air (S.O.A). SOA will allow mobile phone users the ability to update their mobile software or extend services from wherever they are.

Vodafone Group Plc and Google are working to develop mobile search services for Vodafone mobile customers. Not much else to say.

From Yahoo!