When the first phones based on Google’s Android mobile operating system arrive at market in the second half of 2008, the so-called “Gphone” won’t be among them, says TheStreet.com. Which makes perfect sense really, because Google’s never said it was building a Gphone.
“This is the Gphone. OK, this is not the Gphone.” The words of Iliyan Malchev, a Google engineer, in a video describing the company’s new mobile phone effort, really couldn’t have been more apt. Because what Google’s gone and built isn’t a hold-in-your-hand phone, but a robust open-development platform upon which to build one.
Android, as [...]
In a press conference following Google Analyst Day, company Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt and co-founder Sergey Brin confirmed Google’s plans to bid in the FCC’s upcoming 700 MHz spectrum auction, but declined to discuss the mobile-phone strategy that might make use of it–apparently leaving that task to The Wall Street Journal.
According to a [...]
Apparently Google’s cellphone offering isn’t a cellphone at all. And the much discussed prototypes the company has been spotted toting around are really just for show-and-tell.
Because Google isn’t developing a cellphone, it’s developing a cellphone operating system. With it, the company hopes to replicate its online success in the mobile world and give Microsoft’s Windows [...]
In August 2005, Google acquired a two-year-old start-up called Android. Founded by Andy Rubin, the guy behind mobile-device maker Danger, Android was rumored to have been developing a mobile phone OS. Google never said much about the acquisition or its plans for Rubin, but he’s been on the company’s payroll ever since…
Google is prepared to bid at least $4.6 billion for wireless licenses in the Federal Communications Commission’s upcoming spectrum auction–but only if the FCC agrees to adopt the four license conditions the company has been lobbying for.
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1983. The Beatles announce their first tour in thirteen years, but likewise announce that Michael Jackson will be going on tour with them as a one gigantic mega-concert event.
Best video mashup ever.
A Facebook Memorial
Wow.
Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
Excellent.
Flughumor!
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Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine meet the kakapo — a fat, flightless and very randy rare parrot.
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