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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 announced that it is leading an industry alliance to transform mobile phones into powerful computers.
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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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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 …
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.
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, Portfolio.com, John Battelle's Searchblog, Lifeblog, blognation USA and mocoNews.net
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.
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.
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 …
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:Google's Android Arrives: Not Gphone But An Open Source Mobile Phone Platform
Dean Takahashi / Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi:The Gphone is more like an open source cell phone alliance
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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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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, 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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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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VentureBeat, Digital Daily, Micro Persuasion, Glass House, David Dalka, Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab, MediaVidea and Mark Evans
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 …
Harrison Hoffman / LiveSide:
@live.com accounts available publicly on Tuesday — LiveSino is reporting that Microsoft will be opening up registration for @live.com email addresses this Tuesday. LiveSino, of course, is our sister site in China that translates our posts into Chinese and also has exclusive content of their own.
