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Can the almighty Google’s second mobile payment plan challenge existing mobile payment programs? Probably.
That’s not to say that Google is doing anything revolutionary or even all that different from what’s already available on the market today.
Google recently applied for a new patent centered on SMS-based mobile payments. As Unstrung puts it:
A user would send [...]

Amazing but true: Google has hidden a mini flight simulator within Google Earth. To access it for the first time, hit CTRL+Alt+A in Windows or Command+Option+A on the Mac.
You need the latest version of Google Earth and I needed to be over the US to get the window to pop up. What you should see [...]

On August 28, 2007 Michael Arrington at TechCrunch dropped a bombshell that has yet to be explained: Yahoo is supposedly working on a cell phone.
Here is the quote in question:
And just to throw another tidbit out there - the HTC exec that was mentioned on CrunchGear yesterday said Yahoo is on a parallel track as [...]

We’re all waiting for the big news next week: Will Google finally announce the Google Phone?
I’m really hoping this happens. I’m so ready for the Google Phone that I know exactly what I want to do with it when I first get my hands on one. C’mon Google… make it happen
Here’s [...]

The Google Web Toolkit, an open source framework to help developers create Ajax applications using Java, graduated from beta testing on Tuesday.
In announcing the official 1.4 release of the software, Google engineers Bruce Johnson and Dan Peterson all but declare desktop application development dead.
If you’ve been in the technology industry for a while, you probably [...]

Now that Apple’s iPhone has passed from anticipation to release, talk of a Google mobile phone has taken its place as a favorite online fixation.
The latest whisper comes from Rediff, an IT publication with offices in the United States and India, which claims that the Google phone, or Gphone, will be released within two weeks [...]