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First Googlephone app launched by Sergey Brin's favorite startup

Want to know what the Googlephone fuss is about? WhatsOpen.com, the first app to be built for Googlephones, has just launched in beta. The site looks much like the screenshots leaked to Valleywag last month: It's a local search engine which mashes up Google Maps with a directory of store's operating hours. Want a late-night coffee, or beer at 3 a.m.? WhatsOpen tells you which stores to go to. Here's a screenshot of the search results. More »

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9:43 PM on Sat Dec 29 2007
By Owen Thomas
3,802 views, 16 comments

Latest by ishiboo: The only thing that frustrates me more than major companies who don't put their stores operating hours on their location finders, is the fact that nobody is open anyway in the south bay. What the hell is there to do more »

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Googlephone developers outed!

Responding to my call for developers working with Google's Android phone platform, retrogamer Jeff Katz emailed to say he's porting his game, RoTwist, to Android. Paul Scholz went one better and emailed us screenshots of his rotating menus, seen after the jump. More »

3:45 PM on Tue Nov 13 2007
By Paul Boutin
2,265 views, 4 comments

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Developers of first Googlephone app playing down Google ties

WhatsOpen, the stealth startup behind the first known Googlephone app, is quietly admitting to people in the industry that it is using Google's Android OS for cell phones for its mobile app which tells users which nearby stores are open. As the wags at Gizmodo noted, the killer app for Android is figuring out where to get a beer at 3 a.m. Other than that, WhatsOpen's secretive founders are anxious to downplay their ties to Google. After Google billionaire Sergey Brin was spotted asking a WhatsOpen executive to keep his company under wraps, people widely expected a noiseless Google takeover. More »

12:34 PM on Mon Nov 12 2007
By Owen Thomas
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Screenshots of first Googlephone app

Remember WhatsOpen.com, the stealth search startup that piqued Google cofounder Sergey Brin's interest last month? Brin was so intrigued he told the founders to keep the company hush-hush. Now, however, a source has leaked screenshots of WhatsOpen's secret project. The company has a Web application which shows users nearby stores and their operating hours — "what's open." But I'm told by a source that WhatsOpen has also written the first wireless app for Google's new Android operating system. (You may know Android better as the software behind the still-mythical Googlephone.) Demo screenshots after the jump. More »

5:25 PM on Wed Nov 7 2007
By Owen Thomas
78,386 views, 7 comments

Latest by WagCurious: That's kinda weird, to write software for a platform that doesn't really do much and also doesn't run on any modern device. Maybe the time is finally right for my Bally pinball-based social networking effort. Now, keep in mind, this more »

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Google to tell you WhatsOpen?

Is Google looking to acquire WhatsOpen.com? A tipster tells us she overheard a young executive and his VC patron discussing the "secret local search engine" with Google cofounder Sergey Brin at the Web 2.0 Summit last week. Our tipster writes, "Sergey said the 'plans' looked good and not to say anything further about it in public." Right! Let's go with that. Is Google about to buy yet another unproven startup? And what about its technology has Brin so excited? Share what you know. (Photo by decadentyou)

9:26 AM on Mon Oct 22 2007
By Nicholas Carlson
3,991 views, 3 comments

Latest by n/a: They said in January that they will release withing 60 day, has anybody seen anything? more »