Mobile Wars: Microsoft and Google Face Off on the Mobile Front

Google’s Android has been grabbing a fair share of the market over the last year or so.  While it may have struggled a little out of the gate, Google has worked hard to improve the OS and bring it to a wider audience.

There’s no question that Microsoft’s Windows Mobile has declined over the same period of time. Lack of updates combined with a core OS that hasn’t changed in almost 5 years, has lead to a significant decline in consumers perception. Its been said that Microsoft is done in the mobile space and version 7 of Windows Mobile will be the final version. There’s no doubt in my mind that Microsoft is in this for the long haul. They haven’t come this far just to stumble and hand it all over to Google.  I expect we’ll see some significant changes from Microsoft before the year is done.

Over the next couple weeks I will be posting a number of articles that compare the two platforms in an effort to help shine a light on the strengths and differences between these two dominate players.

I know that there are other companies working hard in the mobile space like Apple, RIM, and Nokia.  This series of articles is aimed at comparing Google and Microsoft as I find these two platforms are very closely aligned. For a number of reasons that I won’t get into now, I feel that Apple, Rim and Nokia fall into a different category.

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Mobile Tech Community Rallies to Help Haiti

There’s no question that the people of Haiti need our help. We can all help to make a difference in this time of need.  Many countries and companies are pledging money and assistance to Haiti. You can help too. 

Xavier from Notebooks.com and GottaBeMobile.com is trying to help the Red Cross help Haiti by matching the first $500 in donations. Since his original post early yesterday, Xavier has been able to raise $5770 from various members of the mobile tech community and from companies like ScotteVest (full list of sites and companies below!). I have added $230 to that total to bring it to an even $6000. What’s that mean? Thanks to Xavier’s efforts, the mobile tech community will be matching $6000 of community contributions – bringing the total support to $12,000!!

How can you take advantage of our matching dollars? Easy, send a SMS to the Red Cross at 90999 with the word Haiti in the body of the message. You will then get a confirmation message, just reply with Yes, and $10 will be added to your next phone bill.  Then, head over to this post on Notebooks.com and let them know that you’ve contributed.

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