Google's Latest Efforts Test the Open Waters
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| In the span of just two weeks, Google has launched two major open source
| efforts with a ragtag group of partners, both without any obvious or
| immediate payoff for Google itself.
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http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/news/2007/11/google_open
Columbia Law Professor Tim Wu: Opening the Airwaves
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/Columbia-Law-Professor-Tim-Wu-Opening-the-Airwaves-60258.html
Seems like an investment in some freedom.
Related:
Google Summer of Code
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| Accepted student applications for Google Summer of Code have been
| announced! We accepted over 900 student applicants from a pool of
| nearly 6,200 applications.
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http://code.google.com/soc/#a
Google Launches "Google Developer Day"
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| The intention behind Google Developer Day sounds somewhat similar to "Hack
| Day" -- an annual one day gathering that rival Yahoo has been hosting in
| its Sunnyvale, California abode inviting software developers to get
| together and experiment with Yahoo applications.
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http://www.sda-asia.com/sda/news/psecom,id,15238,srn,4,nodeid,4,_language,Singapore.html
http://tinyurl.com/2vhyu3
(Google) Speaking of Summer
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| Google Summer of CodeTM 2007 is on! Last year, Google funded over
| 600 students in 93 countries to work with 100 open source groups.
| We're extremely happy to announce that we'll be holding Google
| Summer of Code again this year.
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http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2007/02/speaking-of-summer.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
Google Makes Its Entry Into the Wireless World
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| Google took its long-awaited plunge into the wireless world today, announcing
| that it is leading a broad industry alliance to transform mobile phones into
| powerful mobile computers that could accelerate the convergence of computing
| and communications.
|
| [...]
|
| “They may be delivering one component that is free,” he said. “You have to
| ask the question, what additional costs come with commercializing that? I can
| tell you that there are a bunch of phones based on Linux today, and I don’t
| think anyone would tell you it’s free.”
|
| [...]
|
| Mr. Rubin, who is 44 years old and is a veteran Silicon Valley designer, said
| the software system that Google has designed is based on the Linux operating
| system and Sun Microsystems’ Java language. It is designed so programmers can
| easily build applications that connect to independent Web services.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/05/technology/05cnd-gphone.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
OFFICIAL: Google debuts Open Handset Alliance
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| Now called the Open Handset Alliance, the push will see 34 different
| companies working together to create an open-source software platform that
| takes away licensing fees while adding the ability to easily modify code for
| new devices or features.
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http://www.electronista.com/articles/07/11/05/google.mobile.official/
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