Amol Sharma at The Wall Street Journal published an analysis of T-Mobile’s Android phone strategy and overall plan to differentiate itself from the pack of massive American cell-phone companies.
[...] It is likely that T-Mobile will be the first U.S. carrier to bring a Google-powered cellphone to market. The two sides have been working together [...]

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Stefano Mazzocchi takes an interesting look at how Google is able to skirt around Sun’s various licensing traps for different Java platforms:
[...] Google announced the release of their Android platform, which would be able to run Java applications on a mobile phone but it would also be released under the Apache License v2.
This raised more [...]

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We have a grip of GrandCentral invitations for all of you readers out there! GrandCentral is a free (during beta, at least) service for attaching multiple devices to the same phone number, along with a killer voicemail system. I’m not going to go into detail in this post, but it’s worth mentioning that GrandCentral is [...]

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As with most Google acquisitions and product launches, registration for Jaiku is now by invite-only. Luckily, I signed up for Jaiku right after the initial launch of the service back in early April of this year. Right now we have 10 invites available for anyone who requests one in the comments. First post, first serve. So hurry while they still last!

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434 unfortunate GrandCentral users have received email notices that their phone numbers will change this week. It’s a shame because one of the oft-touted niceties of GC is the ability to use the same phone number for life. If you remember, Google announced their acquisition of GrandCentral just last month. [...]

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