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To: LindyBill who wrote (24019)	11/17/2007 1:29:22 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 46821

That second "rec" was mine, Bill. Great find. Thanks. ------

To: LindyBill who wrote (24019)	11/17/2007 4:51:57 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

With thanks to fredg on another forum, an NPR Science Friday podcast that speaks to the topic at hand: -- Phones of the Future and Google's Cell Debut Google has released a development kit for 'Android,' its cellular software project. Talk of the Nation, November 16, 2007 · Fed up with your current cell phone — or your service provider? Mobile experts discuss what can be expected from cell phones and cell companies in the future. Google is working to develop a new kind of software that could work on many different handsets — will it simplify the market or add to the confusion? Guests: Steven Cherry, senior associate editor, IEEE Spectrum Mark McCluskey, senior editor, products, Wired magazine Rich Miner, group manager of mobile platforms, Google, Inc Listen: [23 min 50 sec] npr.org ------

To: LindyBill who wrote (24019)	11/18/2007 5:50:55 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

It gets more interesting ... -- Is AT&T About To Join The Google Android Alliance? Stephen Wellman \| Nov 18, 2007 \| InformationWeek [FAC: The "brief report" from Mercury News, mentioned in the first sentence of this article, hides behind a registration-demanding regime whose "forgot password" function tells you that it works, and that you've been sent a new password, but it doesn't and it didn't. And I hear publishers are starving for clicks today, this being the Year 2007 CE. Go figga. So what do you think about this potential joining of the alliance by AT&T? Does anyone suppose that AT&T will do for the airwaves what VZ did for fiber? Or better yet, do you think there's any chance of VZ&T* going into this together? I mean, why wait for the next and final merger, right? Hm.. ] According to this brief report tinyurl.com , AT&T is in talks with Google to join the Open Handset Alliance. Holy handset, Batman, this could be big. So far only T-Mobile USA and Sprint have signed on as carrier partners for Google's Android alliance. Neither carrier, however, has said what they specifically plan to do with the alliance, but so far its assumed that they will offer Android-based cell phones as well as work with Android partners to enable applications. Cont. informationweek.com -- * VZ&T may be a commonly used acro, but I first came across it reading a post by colleague Shant H. in another forum, fwiw. ------