This morning marked the launch of the first phone that runs Android, an open-source, Google-designed operating system that runs web-savvy applications on a touchscreen-based phone. We didn't have an agent at today's launch of T-Mobile's G1, but luckily our brothers-in-arms Gizmodo are all over it. It's available Oct. MORE >>

Mobile is coming at us hard and fast.  Announcements of changes in the marketplace (HP acquiring Palm in just the past week), and new devices (Google passing on the Nexus One to tout the next gen system), are coming fast and furious. Mobile is the killer app for deep reasons , and not surprisingly, my focus is on mobile design.  MORE >>

Why Mobile Is About To Have Its Web Revolution. Mobile devices, he pointed out, were a few cycles behind their PC counterparts in computing power, but were rapidly catching up. couple more generations from now, many of the “compute constrained” services that so far have been absent from mobile will start to emerge. MORE >>

What’s more, Amazon is getting this not by expensive, proactive scraping the Web, like Google has to do; they’re getting it passively by offering a simple caching service, and letting Fire users do the hard work of crawling the Web. … Opera initially offered the technology as a caching proxy to operators, called Mobile Accelerator. MORE >>

Now that Google’s free telephone forwarding, screening and voicemail service Google Voice is open to anyone in the U.S. Google Voice has an extensive list of features ; here are a few ideas on how to use them: Forward cell or landline numbers to Google Voice. Set up Google Voice numbers to track marketing campaigns. MORE >>