NEWS: Google to Announce Mobile Platform on Monday

Google negotiators this weekend continue to hammer out agreements with wireless carriers, handset makers, software developers, and hardware providers, as the company prepares to announce on Monday an ambitious platform for creating mobile applications.

Although Google has declined to comment for months on its rumored move into the mobile space, sources said the company will make an announcement Monday at 11 a.m. Eastern Time, and that details of the plan are being finalized this weekend.

AppDev Tools, Partners Poised

Google will announce an open source development platform for mobile applications that will contain a full set of components, including an operating system, a set of common APIs, a middleware layer, a customizable user interface, and even a mobile browser, sources said. Instant messaging standard protocols will also be supported.

The platform is intended to simplify the process of creating and deploying mobile applications, so that an application can be built once and be compatible with multiple phones.

On the partner side, well over 30 industry heavyweights are already on board, including Intel, Qualcomm, Broadcom, Nvidia, Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile, China Mobile, Telefonica, NTT DoCoMo, LG Electronics, and HTC, the sources said.

With negotiations expected to continue through the weekend and into Monday morning, it's possible that the list could exceed 40 partners. Among those not supporting the announcement at press time are Nokia, Verizon and Apple.

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John Navas
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Where have I heard this before? Oh yea, Java.

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Tinman

Color me surprised!

Uh... Open Source? Verizon? Apple? Sure. Right! No way jose! Not ever!

-Frank

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Frankster

This sounds a little like the Openmoko project, although presumably it isn't using Linux. Does anyone here know how that's coming along?

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David Friedman

John Navas wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

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We already have an ambitious mobile platform!

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Larry

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Larry

Earth to "Frankster". most everything apple does is opensource. they haven't been closedsourced for over a decade.

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none

I can't help but ponder the privacy implications. What kind of agreements are being made between Google and the carriers? Will Google be gaining access to your name, cell #, billing address? Will Google be gaining access to your call history? Acquiring GPS data? Will people be backing up their contact list to Google? Will it be mining text messages? Heck, voice recognition is a key feature of phones, so might as well ask whether it will be mining the voice conversations themselves.

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Sudohnim

The only thing that Apple has that is open source is a stripped down operating system called Darwin, including the XNU kernel. With Apple's open source, you can boot a system and get to a UNIX shell. So if you want a time machine back to the world of 1980, Apple's open source will get you that. But all the GUI stuff and all of the Apple applications are very much closed source.

-- Mark --

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Mark Crispin

Google has unveiled software it hopes will power a variety of future mobile phones and boost the web on the move.

The software could lead to cheaper phones as it is designed to speed up the process of making mobile services.

The firm is working with four mobile manufacturers - Samsung, HTC, Motorola and LG - but a Google branded phone was not announced.

The first phones using the so-called Google "software stack" will be available in the second half of 2008.

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Google has formed the Open Handset Alliance, made up of 34 companies, including chip manufacturers and handset makers.

The move will be seen as a major competitor to Microsoft, Research in Motion, Palm and Symbian, who make the leading software systems for mobiles.

Google's Android software will be provided to handset makers free of charge and could lead to a price war for operating system licenses and potentially cheaper handsets.

In the United States mobile networks such as Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile will carry the Google-powered phones.

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"This is a shot that is going to be heard around the world, but it's just the first shot in what is going to be a very protracted battle in the next frontier of the mobile web," said analyst Michael Gartenberg, at Jupiter Research.

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Adam Leach, principal analyst with Ovum, said: "It's an important announcement. That number of companies already committing to the service is very impressive."

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John Navas

so guess this ends the story on Google ever coming out with a Phone.

I'm kinda sad, thought Google could pull it off, but it will remain a nobody if the only contribution they can make is software. Nobody will buy it that way.

Google serious screwed up, expect a big drop in the stock price on this news.

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Mark Thompson

yes, but it's still 100% more OPEN than Microsoft's OS's allows you to do, thus OSX is the most OPEN OS in wide use by far.

Linux .74% OSX 6.64%

Do the math Mark.

Apple allows programmers complete freedom, MS does not.

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Mark Thompson

Nonsense. Linux is far more open than OS X, and runs are far more machines.

When is Apple going to allow OS X to run on machines not made by Apple?

Sheesh. Apple fanboys are stupid.

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Mark Crispin

On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 13:09:46 -0700, Mark Thompson wrote in :

Not so. Take the time to actually read the story. ;)

That's a joke, right? LOL

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John Navas

isn't the government already illegally doing that? and isn't that one reason bush wants to grant the telecoms immunity ... so they can't implicate him and his administration in some of their crimes?

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james g. keegan jr.

John Navas wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

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Larry

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Larry

Mark Thompson wrote in news:markt- snipped-for-privacy@mpls-nnrp-03.inet.qwest.net:

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up 14.40 (2.02%) on the news at $725.65. Notice how the chart makes a really steep climb near the end in the panic selling on this news.....er, ah....since about September as it shot up $200/share on buyer panic selling in anticipation of this news.

Larry

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Larry

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