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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.
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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 …
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.
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.
David Berlind / Between the Lines:Is a Java power play lurking beneath Google's Open Handset Alliance?
Jonathan Schwartz / Jonathan Schwartz's Weblog:Congratulations Google, Red Hat and the Java Community!
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:Google's Android platform and the Open Handset Alliance: a quick round-up
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Brian Lam / Gizmodo:Everything We Know About Google's Open Handset Alliance [Gphone]
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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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.
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 …
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?
Marshall Kirkpatrick / Read/WriteWeb:
Joost Partners With Meebo — Joost, the desktop-based long-form video service that aims to take on the old TV model with a large pile of venture capital, is scrapping one of its defining features built in-house, inline chat, and replacing it with outside chat service meebo.
heise Security:
Mac OS X Leopard firewall breaks programs — Maybe it wasn't such a bad idea that Apple decided the firewall in Mac OS X Leopard should be deactivated by default. It turns out that it signs programs retrospectively in the "Set access for specific services and programs" settings - and can affect program integrity as a result.
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