Have peek at Google's Android

The Open Handset Alliance headed up by Google is offering a peek at the Android Software Development Kit (SDK) and some big money to spark creativity amongst developers. In an announcement last week that many believed would be a so called gPhone, Google introduced Android a software platform for mobile phone developers, and the Alliance of over 30 software and hardware companies. This video by Sergey Brin and Steve Horowitz discusses the availability of the SDK and offers a little peek at phone applications developed using the Android Platform. Looks interesting, and with $10 million in incentives you can expect developers to be putting their thinking caps on!

No gPhone, but plenty of wireless noise for Google

Google has finally let us all in on it's plans for the wireless world and there is no mention of a gPhone just yet. In a press release yesterday Google announced a new alliance with 33 technology companies to develop an open-source operating system for cellphones, to be known as Android. Android is said to have taken it's name from Android Inc. a company that Google bought in 2005, co-founded by Andy Rubin who helped design T-Mobile's popular Sidekick phone and who is now Google's director of mobile platforms. The list of partners includes Motorola, LG, and Samsung as well as several US carriers and tech companies Intel and Texas Instruments. Google intends on releasing the open software development kits on Monday. The Globe and Mail has the details.

Patent application points to Google's "gPhone" intent?

ars technica seems convinced , like so many others, that Google is planning a mobile phone to rival Apple's entry into the market. Citing a year old patent application for "A computer-implemented method of effectuating an electronic on-line payment includes receiving at a computer server system a text message from a payor containing a payment request representing a payment amount sent by a payor device operating independently of the computer server system, determining a payment amount associated with the text message and debiting a payor account for an amount corresponding to the amount of the payment request, and crediting an account of a payee that is independent of the computer server system.", as evidence. One thing is for sure, the speculation is reaching Apple proportions!