Filed under: Products and services, Launches, Google (GOOG)
When Google, Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) bought wireless software development company Android years ago, its founder asked Google’s co-founder Larry Page, “Is this interesting to Google?” It sure turned out to be, although the mobile phone operating system environment was announced almost a year ago and nothing concrete has shipped in a customer device yet. My bet is that Google isn’t delaying development to fine-tune its software — it’s had years to do that and the money to boot.
The problem is the wireless environment in the U.S., for starters. The competitive landscape is so tightly controlled that Google’s mantra of “open access” just won’t sit well with wireless carriers used to telling customers what they can and cannot do with their phones. If you think U.S. consumers have control over their wireless lifestyles, a swift trip to Europe will dispel that n...
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Bacteria Make Major Evolutionary Shift In the LabFrom: lifeandmoneytoday.com
Post Date: 2008-06-10 16:54:04
Auxbuss sends us to New Scientist for news sure to perplex and confound creationists: scientists have watched a new, complex evolutionary trait develop in the lab. “A major evolutionary innovation has unfurled right in front of researchers’ eyes. It’s the first time evolution has been caught in the act of making such a rare and complex new trait. And because the species in question is a bacterium, scientists have been able to replay history to show how this evolutionary novelty...
EU Calls For Use of Open StandardsFrom: lifeandmoneytoday.com
Post Date: 2008-06-10 16:51:14
fondacio writes “In a speech that is being reported as taking a swipe at Microsoft, EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes has called for businesses and governments to use software based on open standards. While not mentioning Microsoft by name, Ms. Kroes referred to the fact that ‘[t]he [European] Commission has never before had to issue two periodic penalty payments in a competition case’ until this befell Microsoft. The things she told a conference in Brussels will not com...
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