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Andy Rubin / Official Google Blog:
Where's my Gphone? — Despite all of the very interesting speculation over the last few months, we're not announcing a Gphone. However, we think what we are announcing — the Open Handset Alliance and Android — is more significant and ambitious than a single phone.
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New York Times:
Google Enters the Wireless World — 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.
Google:
Industry Leaders Announce Open Platform for Mobile Devices — Group Pledges to Unleash Innovation for Mobile Users Worldwide — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.; BONN, Germany; TAOYUAN, Taiwan; SAN DIEGO, Calif.; SCHAUMBURG, Ill. (November 5, 2007) — A broad alliance of leading technology …
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InfoWorld, last100, DailyTech, The Mobile Gadgeteer, Engadget, Connecting the Dots, Traffick, Googling Google and Information Manager Journal
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Google Launches Mobile Phone Platform, Android: What it Means, What Experts Think — Updated post press conference, read My Take #2: Google (GOOG) has just announced its much talked about Google mobile phone platform, Android, and has announced a large list of partners who are working with the company.
Quentin Hardy / Forbes:
Google's Dream Phone — Google likes software, particularly the kind that puts ads on Web pages, making Google rich. The realities of a phone business—running a supply chain, keeping inventory and managing distribution—were never something Google wanted from its phone initiative.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Breaking: Google Announces Android and Open Handset Alliance — Google just officially announced the Open Handset Alliance to create an open platform (to be called Android) for a Linux phone that can run mobile Google apps and others. The 34 partners include T-Mobile, Sprint Nextel …
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Epicenter, Salon, Silicon Alley Insider, Coolest Gadgets, Telecompetitor and mocoNews.net
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
Google unveils cell phone software and alliance — update Google's cell phone strategy took shape Monday with the announcement of a new open software platform and an alliance of wireless heavyweights that will help form the development community for the planned phones.
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Crave, InfoWorld, Kelsey Group Blogs, Portfolio.com, John Battelle's Searchblog, Lifeblog and blognation USA
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
The Google Phone... Everything You Expected And Less (For Now) — from the and-that's-it? dept — After Apple finally announced its iPhone, all the folks who spent years and years passing around rumors about it needed to move onto something else. The first easy target was the gPhone from Google …
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Live coverage of Google's Android Gphone mobile OS announcement — 8:58AM PT - Ok, we're on the call, and there's soothing classical. We'll "be underway in a few minutes." — 9:02AM PT - Ok, we're about to begin! — 9:04AM PT - "Welcome everyone to the Google, Inc. conference call.
comScore:
For Radiohead Fans, Does "Free" + "Download" = "Freeload"? — 2 out of 5 Downloaders Willing to Pay an Average of $6 for "In Rainbows" Album — U.S. Downloaders Willing to Pay More than International Counterparts — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world …
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Greg Sandoval / Webware.com:STUDY: FREE BEATS FEE FOR RADIOHEAD'S 'IN RAINBOWS'
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Mashable!
PR Newswire:
IAC Announces Plan to Spin Off HSN, Ticketmaster, Interval and LendingTree as Four Publicly Traded Companies — NEW YORK, Nov. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — IAC (Nasdaq: IACI - News) announced today that its Board of Directors has approved a plan to separate IAC into five publicly traded companies:
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Silicon Alley Insider, Screenwerk, VentureBeat, WebProNews, Media Biz, BloggingStocks, Between the Lines, Epicenter and MarketWatch
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
MySpace To Announce Self-Serve Hyper Targeted Advertising Network — MySpace will announce plans to introduce a new advertising platform, "SelfServe by MySpace," at Ad:Tech Monday. The service itself will launch to a limited set of advertisers in the next sixty days.
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InfoWorld, Computerworld, Profy.Com, Download Squad, O'Reilly Radar, dailywireless.org and Insider Chatter
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Louise Story / New York Times:Tracking of Web Use by Marketers Gains Favor
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The Chronicle
David Carr / New York Times:
New Media, New Value, Old Troubles — In the hierarchy of things the American public seems not to care about — the national debt, Paris Hilton's charitable works, Fred D. Thompson's campaign for president — the Hollywood screenwriters' strike probably wins hands down.
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Phil Windley / Between the Lines:
Michael Barrett on Web 2.0: This stuff scares the hell out of me — When Michael Barrett (CISO, Paypal) heard the Eric Nolin was putting on Defrag, he called up and said "I'd like to come and talk because this stuff scares the hell out of me." His key messages: (a) we're doomed to repeat history …
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Feld Thoughts
Scott Ferguson / eWEEK.com:
Dell Buying EqualLogic for $1.4B — Dell looks to boost storage offerings and offer preinstalled virtualization. — In a move that will help it expand its storage and virtualization offerings, Dell announced Nov. 5 that it will acquire storage startup EqualLogic for $1.4 billion.
Tom Foremski / Silicon Valley Watcher:
UPDATED:Web 2.0 Is On The Ropes. . . Kleiner Perkins Has Halted Investments — [UPDATED: With a reply from Tim O'Reilly, one of the persons mentioned in this article.] — Whenever I meet with VCs lately I've noticed they have a growing distaste for Web 2.0 startups.
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WebProNews, VentureBeat, Micro Persuasion, Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab, MediaVidea, Glass House and Digital Daily
