nexus one

Nary a week after Google unveiled its new Nexus One smart-phone complaints about shoddy service and weak developer support have begun pouring in. The complaints suggest that the Nexus One's honeymoon is now over.

As Google wades into the mobile market, the company is getting a crash course in the complexities that come with the new line of business. Among its problems, some Google partners, such as Motorola, may have been burned by the surprise launch.

The Google Nexus One smartphone is finally here and you can buy it immediately. The buzz building up to it has been phenomenal to say the least. The question everyone is asking is: is this the iPhone killer? Not really. At least not in the way we have been thinking about the Google phone --...

News that could affect stock prices today: Kraft's Cadbury bid gets slim support from shareholders; Google releases its Nexus One smart phone; Ford, Toyota, Honda reported improved December sales; retailers saw strong finish to the year.

According to Google's Mobile blog, the company distributed a new mobile phone running the Android platform as part of its mobile lab -- a process they call "dogfooding." The employees will test the beta-version smart phone in an attempt to improve it.

In the heart of the holiday phone-buying season, AT T handed Google a fabulous present and partner Apple a lump of coal. Both were wrapped in one spectacular network failure, which stranded thousands of the Web's most vocal and demanding iPhone users.

Rumors have been spreading for months that Google (GOOG) would launch its own wireless handset. PC Magazine even went so far as to report that Google employees have been issued the phone. Now there is a sort of confirmation from The Wall Street Journal that the handset, to be called the Nexus...