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??? I hadn't heard about that. Could you elaborate a bit more? Thanks.
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Google's cellphone OS, android, may have just gotten a boost:

http://www.marketingweek.co.uk/cgi-bin/ ... &h=260&f=3

Dell might use it to make a cellphone to compete with the iPhone.
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related but not exactly M$ vs google

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20 ... ility.html



how google can block this buyout attempt

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/0 ... f=business
Gentlemen, we got 20 calls about the David Hyde-Pierce incident. And as you know, one call equals a billion people, which means 20 billion people were offended by this
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What the merger might mean for the Linux world:

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/cnews/ ... hp/3725691
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M$ mapping services beginning to be a decent alternative to Google maps:

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20 ... ssive.html
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Google's Street View is supposed to blur out faces for privacy reasons. In this shot, it blurred the horse's face, but not the wagon driver:

http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/05/1 ... rse-f.html

The Sarah Jessica Parker comment is justified ;)

The comment showing the wh0res is just gold.
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Google fires a shot across the bow:

http://www.dailytech.com/Google+Looks+t ... e12966.htm

The Google Navy.
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Google making an OS?

http://www.forbes.com/2008/12/05/google ... d=rss_news

If they put their weight behind Wine/VM of some sort/emulation/etc to bring NT code to the Linux world.........
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Google Earth gains Google Ocean capabilities:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/20 ... ns-project
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