Microsoft, Apple, and the death of the desktop
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| So I watched what she was doing. She brought up the browser to check
| web-based mail on gmail.com. She used google.com to search for something for
| our kid’s classwork. She went to cartoonnetwork.com and webkins.com to play
| games with the kids. And so forth. Notice a pattern here? Everything was in
| the browser. It was the *browser* that was slow, not the computer. In her
| mind, the browser was the computer.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=555
Google Creeps Onto Cell Phones in Threat to Symbian, Microsoft
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| On a chilly February morning, Andy Rubin hustles past equation-filled
| whiteboards in a two-story building on Google Inc.'s Silicon Valley campus.
|
| Rubin, a computer scientist who builds robots for fun, has spent three years
| in this top-secret sanctum of the Googleplex. He's putting the final touches
| on one of the most ambitious and potentially humbling projects the Internet
| juggernaut has ever undertaken: an operating system for cellular phones
| that's designed to give Google the same grip on the mobile Web that it
| commands in online searches on personal computers.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=afTam30WxcsE&refer=home
Google's Schmidt has his head stuck in the cloud
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| Changes to Google Apps over the coming year will entice more businesses to
| jump over to the delivery of applications over the internet, says Google CEO
| Eric Schmidt.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1720510268&rid=-50
Google exec lets slip Android release date?
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| Ever since introducing Android, a mobile-phone operating system, last
| November, Google has said that Android-loaded phones would be available in
| the second half of this year.
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http://www.builderau.com.au/news/soa/Google-exec-lets-slip-Android-release-date-/0,339028227,339287403,00.htm
Yesterday:
Googly Eyed
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| After an excruciatingly long time, it looks like Linux is finally taking
| hold. But maybe we should rename it the Google Operating System because,
| clearly, the big Daddy Warbucks of search is the wind beneath the wings of
| Linux these days.
|
| Google's new Android initiative has a toehold on cell phones, and the company
| has long promoted open source on the web, where your browser is basically
| your OS. Now that's the rallying point for Linux developers on the desktop,
| as per new machines like the Asus (asus.com) Eee PC 4G mini laptop, Everex
| (everex.com) gPC TC2502 and Zonbu (zonbu.com) PCs. The search giant didn't
| build them, but you'd never know it from booting one up.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/143796/googly_eyed.html
Related:
What Android means for Apple, MS, open source, enterprises
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| The GPhone never happened, but Android is a much more significant development
|
| [...]
|
| A better approach, argues Dan Kohn, COO of the Linux Foundation, is to pick
| one set of standards that IT will support for calendaring, email
| applications, VPN and so on, and tell users they can use any mobile phone
| compatible with those standards.
|
| [...]
|
| What Android means for open source and Linux
| Linux already has a major presence on mobile phones, but the entrance of
| Google and the Open Handset Alliance — which has 34 member organisations
| worldwide — adds to the momentum.
|
| "We're a huge believer in diversity of options on mobile phones," Kohn of the
| Linux Foundation says. "Linux is already an important, growing presence
| there. I think having the Google software as an additional open source option
| is only going to accelerate that adoption."
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http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/netw/D22188C825F8528FCC257394007BE16D
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
Funambol CEO Fabrizio Capobianco: Linux Is Mobile's Future
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| LinuxInsider met with Capobianco to discuss his view on the role of open
| source in creating Mobile 2.0 as a voice and data carrier parallel to the
| Internet. The meeting occurred in the wake of Google's announcement earlier
| this month that it was negotiating with wireless carriers, handset makers,
| software developers and hardware providers to use an open source mobile
| platform, Android.
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http://www.technewsworld.com/story/60340.html
Google Android dev kit exposes Apple-inspired roots
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| The release to developers of Google's Linux-based Android operating system
| for mobile phones reveals that the prototype software shares at least a few
| aspects in common with interfaces from the company's Bay Area neighbor,
| Apple.
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http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/11/12/google_android_dev_kit_exposes_apple_inspired_roots.html
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