The Man Behind the Google Phone (Slashdot)

The Man Behind the Google Phone (Slashdot)
Hugh Pickens writes “The New York Times is running a story about Andy Rubin, Google’s resident gadget guru, and one of the primary architects of the gPhone. You won’t find any new technical details about the gPhone in the story, (Google is planning an announcement on Monday about its future mobile plans.) but the story about Rubin gives some clues that indicate that Google plans to do more than …

Google, MySpace join social networking forces (The Salt Lake Tribune)

Google, MySpace join social networking forces (The Salt Lake Tribune)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - The joining of Internet social networking leader MySpace with Google’s platform for sharing applications across the Web is a concept that threatens to undermine the rapid growth of their common rival, Facebook Inc.

Google Contacts makes progress (All About Symbian)

Google Contacts makes progress (All About Symbian)
Also part of a whole new Google Mail (on the Web) application, there’s a new Google Contacts manager now out . What’s now needed, guys, is a SyncML server so that we can sync S60 (and UIQ) smartphone contacts and calendar entries directly to Google’s PIM data.