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今天news.com技术博客上面最火的话题是什么？是两个名词：Google和Android。

Google to unveil ‘Android’ phone software

Google is ready to unveil a suite of software for mobile
phones based on open-source technology, backed by some of the largest
wireless industry companies in the world.

The company is expected to hold a press conference on Monday to unveil
the project, which is expected to incorporate software from the Linux
world into a mobile platform code-named Android that’s designed to run
on phones, according to sources familiar with Google’s plans. A
software development kit for what’s being called "a complete
mobile-phone software stack" is believed to be in the works and will be
released relatively soon thereafter, the sources said. It’s not exactly
clear what kind of software will come as part of that stack, but it’s
said to include everything you need to run a phone.

等到沸沸扬扬的GPhone流言过去，Google高调推出了其手机平台，代码名为Android。这将是一个基于Linux的手机平台。而根据Google黑板报的消息，
看来GPhone将是一个虚幻之物了，取而代之的是Google的手机操作系统。

过几天SDK即将可用，持续关注一下。

From New York Times:
For Google, Advertising and Phones Go Together

看起来Google是要建立一个Open Source，可能附带浏览器的手机操作系统，然后通过这个操作系统来卖他的广告。Google是一个把Joel关于“附属品”的商业概念发挥到极致的又一家公司。

Google就是一个卖广告的公司，说白了就是这样。为了卖出更多的广告，它就必须把更多的人拉拢到它的软件使用者当中去。所以，它不关心软件是不是卖钱，甚至干脆开源算了。因为软件的成本越低，卖出的软件越多，Google就可以把越多的拥护笼络在它的触手之下，进而可以更加理直气壮地向广告商要钱。现在，Google已经不满足于在PC上面拉拢用户了，接下来是手机和移动设备——几乎免费的手机操作系统和软件交给vendor去生产，GPhone看起来还真是一个不错的主意。

接下来了？Google的模式能否在手机上复制成功呢？要知道，让用户消耗自己宝贵的GPRS流量来传输广告，实在不一定是一件很得人心的事情。

或者，just build up cool features, and wait for the hardware (and bandwidth) to catch up … again?

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9789901-7.html

Google is beefing up its outsourced e-mail offering aimed at
corporations and universities, adding security features that large
companies demand.

Three weeks after closing its acquisition of Postini, Google has
integrated the company’s security and government regulation services
into Google Apps Premier Edition. That suite includes hosted e-mail,
calendar, instant messaging, Docs & Spreadsheets and Web page
creation software.

Google的hosted application suite的确是一个非常有意思的创意。而现在其中加上了Anti-Spam和Anti-Virus的自定义，是不是看起来Google应该成为比Microsoft更大的一个安全行业的竞争对手了呢？

Open Office bug hits multiple operating systems.

正如今天听CTO所说，Internet is dangerous。

就是这样。

BTW: Windows Server 2008 RC0 Releases today.