Hear that America? That’s the sound of the hammer dropping on our beloved cartel of carriers.

Google’s bid for the 700MHz “C Block” is on. Eric Schmidt, Google Chairman and CEO, says the following: “We believe it’s important to put our money where our principles are. Consumers deserve more competition and innovation than they have in today’s…”

Read more at engadget.

Rumours are doing rounds saying Google might be buying Skype from eBay.

London’s webbist community is rife with rumour that Google is negotiating to buy Skype from eBay. Although this is nothing more than a rumour it fits nicely into Google’s plan of shaking (read scaring the hell out of) the mobile industry. This is particularly significant due to Google’s recent announcement about their own open mobile OS named Android.

What are your thought on this?

 

Although the handset with android OS is still a year away, you can start developing application for it. So when the handsets are finally out you can start deploying those apps.

To help you with it here’s a very quick look at developing application for Android. The developer is Dan Morill.

 

Google has just unveiled “early look” SDK for android mobile os. If you want to take a closer look you can download it from Open Handset Alliance.In a glance, it looks quite promising. Although, it may not look as cool as the Mac os x on iPhone / iPod touch,  the whole point of this google OS is its openness. This means anybody can write application for this application without any restriction . It is highly customized allowing you to control each and every aspect of your phone. This is a very big plus as compared to other platforms. Google has also announced $10 million for the best application. So let’s start coding!

 

Last Monday Google announced android - the new Google OS for mobile phones. The announcement made me wonder, how big can Google get? Google has been the biggest broker of the Internet. Almost 60% of all web traffic is redirected by Google. What would happen of android was to make it big like their search engine. Possibilities with mobile phone is endless. One of the reason is the sheer no. of mobile phone users (there are more mobile phones than PCs) but the potential is untapped yet.If Google was to control the mobile platform as they are controlling online search, the possibility for the growth of for it is huge. Every move the Mountain View based company makes never fails to create a splash. Due to the announcement of open handset alliance, the share of Google skyrocketed. It is worth more than $220 billion and is 5th largest corporation in the US based on market capitalization.So how big can Google get? Makes me wonder.