Google announced today its participation in the Open Handset Alliance, a group of 34 mobile and tech organizations dedicated to bringing an open platform to mobile phones. The awesomely named platform, Android, was also announced. Right now there's nothing--absolutely bubkiss--in the way of pragmatic effects. The software will be in the hands of developers next week, and we shouldn't expect to see phones until the second half of 2008, which is leading some spectators to call this a PR move. I prefer to see it as just one more step towards Google running my entire life.
Continue reading 'Google launches open platform for mobile phones; everything else' >
