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Google + T-Mobile + Android + Chrome = Hmmmmmm?
Fill in some blanks for yourself.

Mind-boggling!
TED

Microsoft’s plans for post-Windows OS revealed - Software Development Times On The Web
Microsoft is incubating a componentized non-Windows operating system known as Midori, which is being architected from the ground up to tackle challenges that Redmond has determined cannot be met by simply evolving its existing technology.
SD Times has viewed internal Microsoft documents that outline [...]

I received the following from Zoho this morning.  We hear a lot about Google, and it’s nice to see the competition doing well.
We are delighted that Swisscom (incumbent telco in Switzerland) has chosen Zoho for a six month pilot for its Zoho Business Suite which is now available on their Software-as-a-Service portal Teamnet.
Zoho and Swisscom [...]

According to Cisco Systems, visual networking will drive a nearly exponential growth in IP traffic between now and 2012.
IP traffic to ‘double’ every two years - vnunet.com
In related news, Hughes Network systems has announced satellite broadband delivering download speeds of up to 3 Mbps.

SpeedGuide.net News :: Hughes Breaks Satellite Speed Barrier

Firefox 3 launched today — Download Day — and it’s time to upgrade to the best browser ever, IMNSHO. Your opinion, of course, may vary — but it doesn’t make you right. :p You can download it here. Do it today and help Mozilla set a 1-day download record that will be [...]

Flat-rate broadband – however cheap or expensive (depending on your point of view) it might be – inspired the formation of Skype, YouTube, Facebook, Apple’s iTunes and MySpace, amongst others. It allowed us to freely experiment, to embrace both the applications and the ideas they represented, such as VoIP, online video, digital downloads and social [...]

An announcement from Time Warner Cable has stated that they are planning to charge consumers $1 for each
gigabyte of content over their allotment. This testing on metered
Internet access will start in Beaumont, Texas.

A message for those of you with no iPhone or BlackBerry: Your cellphone is smarter than you think.
In fact, your boring old cellphone has enormous potential. Here is a guide to checking your email, looking up information and updating your calendar, just by sending text messages. You can use any cellphone, but you’ll need a [...]

Modern nomads carry almost no paper because they access their documents on their laptop computers, mobile phones or online. Increasingly, they don’t even bring laptops. Many engineers at Google, the leading internet company and a magnet for nomads, travel with only a BlackBerry, iPhone or other “smart phone”. If ever the need arises for a [...]

Here’s one for the early adopters to drool over…
“The X1’s specs include, basically, everything. Quad-band EDGE plus quad-band HSDPA 7.2 with HSUPA? Check. Wi-Fi and GPS? Check. A 3.2-megapixel camera with DVD quality video playback and capture? Check. FM radio, Bluetooth stereo, and GPS? You bet. It’s all powered by a 520-MHz ARM11 processor running [...]

Fred Vogelstein at Wired brings us the inside poop on the iPhone’s development, and explains — succinctly — how it has managed to change the wireless industry.
“This 4.8-ounce sliver of glass and aluminum is an explosive device that
has forever changed the mobile-phone business, wresting power from
carriers and giving it to manufacturers, developers, and consumers.
The Untold [...]

Kelsey Blodgett, writing for SAI, discusses Dartmouth University’s free wireless program, and the implications that it and other similar programs have for the telecom and ISP industries.
and…
Mike Elgan, writing for earthweb.com, tells us why a company called Asustek is becoming the most hated outfit in the PC industry…and what it has to offer you.
Finally, ABC News [...]

Barbara Krasnoff takes a look at the latest Beta from Mozilla.org:
December 27, 2007 (Computerworld) New versions of favorite applications are always a little tricky; you want to keep up with the times without fixing what ain’t broke. With that in mind, I took a look at the newly released Firefox 3 Beta 2 to see what [...]

Researchers from Google have documented serious vulnerabilities in
Adobe Flash content which leave tens of thousands of websites
susceptible to attacks that steal the personal details of visitors. …
One reason for the sheer volume of vulnerable applets: SWF files generated by six of the more popular content development tools automatically contain the bugs, according to the book. [...]

The search engine company has developed a series of translation bots for its Google Talk application, which translate conversations in real time.
The service includes 24 translation bots, converting between languages such as English, French, German, Korean, Japanese and Chinese.
Google learns to speak your language

Additional enhancements include more easily decipherable security notices, and a password manager that checks to make sure the correct password has been entered before Mozilla saves it. There is also an automatic check for insecure plugins, extensions and Java, and anti-virus integration with the new download manager.
Latest Version of Firefox 3.0 Goes to Developers - [...]

To understand why Google is such a threat to Microsoft–and why Microsoft’s pooh-poohing of this threat is, at best, a smokescreen–you need to understand how technology disruption works.
Microsoft in Denial: Google Threat is Classic Disruption - Silicon Alley Insider

Google is rolling out a centralized profile system that will provide personalized information to each Google product you use. The unimaginatively named Google Profile will share information across all Google products, unifying often disparate Google systems that logins aside haven’t previously shared data with each other.
Google Starts Rolling Out Centralized Profiles
Logical step.  I’m sure the [...]

The growing confrontation between Google and Microsoft promises to be an epic business battle. It is likely to shape the prosperity and progress of both companies, and also inform how consumers and corporations work, shop, communicate and go about their digital lives. Google sees all of this happening on remote servers in faraway data centers, [...]