Michael Siliski / Google Mobile Blog:
Google Maps for BlackBerry Gets Biking Directions, Sharing, and New Search Results — Labels: biking directions, BlackBerry, google maps for mobile, sharing — Grab your BlackBerry, hop on your bike, and have your friends join you with Google Maps for mobile!
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Silicon Valley Buzz: Apple Paid More Than $200 Million For Siri To Get Into Mobile Search — How much did Apple pay for the acquisition of Siri, the maker of a mobile virtual personal assistant app? Apple won’t say, and neither will the company or its investors.
Kevin J. O’Brien / New York Times:
Skype Fights to Be Heard on Mobile Phones — BARCELONA — Josh Silverman, the chief executive of Skype, the voice-over-Internet phone service, could tick off the names of mobile phone operators that block his company’s service. — But for Mr. Silverman, a 41-year-old Michigan native …
Fred / A VC:
Flash, HTML5, and Mobile Apps — About a year ago, I wrote a post about Apple’s “blind spot” for Flash. I took more heat for that post than anything else I’ve written here other than political posts. It opened my eyes to the fact that Flash vs HTML5 is one of the most politically heated topics in the tech business.