Google's mobile move: awe-inspiring and terrifying
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| It is also another awe-inspiring -- or terrifying, depending on one's
| perspective -- display of the engineering and business resources Google can
| unleash and of the power it has to influence, disrupt and rearrange markets.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20071106/tc_infoworld/93133
Nokia says door open to Google alliance
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| Nokia may still join Google's new mobile software alliance, which is seen as
| rivaling Nokia's own plans.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-6217202.html
Here we go. Devices are the future, which is why Microsoft is nervous (turning
attention back to its mobile failures by reducing kernel weight).
Related:
Linux Sees 'Astronomic' Growth in Mobile Devices
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| "We were very aware that the growth in mobile for Linux was huge, but we
| didn't know it was so astronomic," Amanda McPherson, marketing director for
| the Linux Foundation, told LinuxInsider. "These are very encouraging
| numbers." Why Linux has drawn significant support from the community of
| handset manufacturers can be explained on several fronts, McPherson said.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/59162.html
Google spending hundreds of millions on mobile
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| Anian, a Reuters company that tracks industry trends for institutional
| investors, reported last month that Google had engaged Taiwan's High Tech
| Computer Corpto design a Linux
| software-based phone for launch in the first quarter of 2008.
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http://investing.reuters.co.uk/news/articleinvesting.aspx?type=media&storyID=nN02242073
PCs being pushed aside in Japan
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| The PC's role in Japanese homes is diminishing, as its once-awesome monopoly
| on processing power is encroached by gadgets such as smart phones that act
| like pocket-size computers, advanced Internet-connected game consoles,
| digital video recorders with terabytes of memory.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071104/ap_on_hi_te/bye_bye_pcs
The Man Behind the Google Phone
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| “The thing that gets me going is touching a large number of people — if
| there’s 3.1 billion phones out there, it’s a great way to touch people,” he
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| says. “I want to find something that delights people so they use it, and they
| use it for the merits of it being it.”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/technology/04google.html?_r=2&ei=5088&en=f05a55321435d1e9&ex=1351828800&oref=slogin&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin
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