Top Items:
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.
Discussion:
Webware.com, TechCrunch, Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog, Mercury News, Epicenter, CNET News.com, InsideGoogle, Ed Burnette's Dev Connection, Guardian Unlimited, Telegraph Blogs, Pulse 2.0, Alec Saunders .LOG, mathewingram.com/work, Engadget, Search Engine Land, SEOspace, Read/WriteWeb, Compiler, Techlog, Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi, Disruptive Telephony, Gizmodo, BBC, Telecompetitor, The Register, mocoNews.net, Business Communities …, Silicon Alley Insider, Gearlog, IntoMobile, techno.blog, Valleywag, Between the Lines, MARS Magazine, Ars Technica, MobHappy, Brier Dudley's blog, Salon, The Globe and Mail, Switched, Skype Journal, The Tablet PC, Scobleizer, TECH.BLORGE.com, Open Source, Seeking Alpha Internet stocks, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Dana Gardner's BriefingsDirect, MacRumors, Bruce Clay, Inc. Blog, Kelsey Group Blogs, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Computerworld, Life On the Wicked Stage, Joe Duck, Jeffrey McManus, CyberNet, Bits and ...about mobility …
RELATED:
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.
Discussion:
Techdirt, CNET News.com, Computerworld, eWEEK.com, PC World, Emergent Chaos, Slashdot, Electronista, Associated Press, Gizmodo, USA Today, Epicenter, dailytechrag.com/news …, iLounge, rc3.org, zedgeHeadz, Kotaku, O'Reilly Radar, Ogle Earth, Beet.TV, Soaring on Ridgelift, WebProNews and textually.org
Wall Street Journal:
Google Unveils Cellphone Alliance — Google Inc. announced today an ambitious alliance with 33 handset makers, wireless carriers and other technology companies to create low-cost mobile phones based on "open" technology standards. — The Mountain View, Calif., Internet 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.
Ben Worthen / Business Technology:
Google Phone: A Business-Tech Nightmare Waiting to Happen — Google hopes its new operating system will turn phones into mini computers that are just as useful as PCs. A lot has to go right for that to happen — phone carriers will need to open up their networks and developers need to write software for GoogleÂ's system.
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.
Discussion:
Portfolio.com, Web Worker Daily, Between the Lines, Silicon Alley Insider and Markus Göbel's …
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Google and HTC's "Dream" phone prototype semi-revealed — Sure, a Google-sponsored phone OS in the way of Android is pretty great news for mobile phone land, but what if your really had your heart set on some Google hardware this Monday morning? Well take heart, because Forbes has the skinny …
Brian Lam / Gizmodo:Everything We Know About Google's Open Handset Alliance [Gphone]
Discussion:
Between the Lines
Jonathan Schwartz / Jonathan Schwartz's Weblog:Congratulations Google, Red Hat and the Java Community!
Discussion:
Between the Lines, The Open Road, CNET News.com, tecosystems, NetBeans Highlights and BetaNews
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:Google's Android platform and the Open Handset Alliance: a quick round-up
Discussion:
Ryan Block
tomkarpik.com:
massive data loss bug in leopard — Update: The bug occurs regardless of the type of destination being moved to (whether it's local USB, local Firewire, SMB, etc.). Also, I have been informed that this bug goes back all the way to Panther. — Leopard's Finder has a glaring bug …
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 …
Microsoft:
Microsoft Security Advisory (944653) — Vulnerability in Macrovision SECDRV.SYS Driver on Windows Could Allow Elevation of Privilege — Microsoft is working with Macrovision, investigating new public reports of a vulnerability in the Macrovision secdrv.sys driver on supported editions of Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP.
RELATED:
Chris Peredun / DailyTech:
Newegg Accidentally Offers "Buy 1, Get 4 Free" ASUS Eee PC Promotion — The shipping box for the Eee was so small, some buyers received a five-pack instead of a single unit — The Asus Eee PC notebook has been popular in North America thus far, with many retailers having sold their entire stock on the first day of orders.
Discussion:
Engadget
Zefrank / ze's page:
strike day — in related news the 2 billion franktv commercials will be changed from "hippos don't do impressions, franktv does" to "hippos don't do impressions, neither does franktv" — Ooooooh... That felt good. Seems like old times... Does this mean The Show is coming back?
Discussion:
NewTeeVee
Life and Incredible Adventures of Optimus Keyboards:
Optimus Maximus News — I've been to the factory that produces OLEDs for the Optimus Maximus in Taiwan last week. Unfortunately they don't let any camera in, so I have to carry the impression in my mind. Looks quite impressive :-) — Keyboard Shipping — The first lot is completely sold-out.
Discussion:
Gizmodo
RELATED:
Om Malik / GigaOM:
The Final Countdown to NewTeeVee Live — Today has been one of the busiest news days in a long, long time. And it has been so much fun — chasing things down, juggling the phones and reporting while blogging. This pressure-cooker existence is going to be part of my life for the next 10 days as well …
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Technorati Drops Content Older Than 6 Months Old — When Technorati announced a new CEO at the beginning of October, many were hoping that the once great Technorati would focus on its core blog search product, a product that had been virtually ignored as the company tried to be all things to everybody …
