Google OS?

It's official: an open source, lightweight operating system that will be shipping on netbooks in mid-2010. Maybe it make them usable.

Google's new LIFE archive.

Millions of photos from LIFE dating back to the 1750s.

Mail Goggles.

Google implements tool to help avoid drunk emailing. Finally some useful technology!

Blast from the past.

In honor of Google's 10th birthday, a look back at Google in 2001.

G1 under T-Mobile confirmed.

Google Android-powered HTC Dream to be unveiled September 23.

Google at 10.

Astute, insightful prose on the sort-of-anniversary by Nicholas Carr and Om Malik.

Chrome.

Google to launch its own open-source, Webkit-based browser tomorrow.

Is the Gphone real?

I had given up on it last winter when I bought a locked BlackBerry Pearl on the street from a trusted source. (Cab drivers would never buy hot stuff, right?). Sold it through a friend who already knew a friend contracted to the network the device ran on, and I used the money toward the purchase of an iPhone.

Om Malik examines the fate/status of the Gphone, and he is far more exhaustive than I have the patience for, and far more civil than I. Good to see someone putting it in perspective, because I'd written Android off as vaporware, and bit the bullet and bought a 1.0 iPhone when I knew the 3Gs were around the corner. No 3G in Alaska, GPS not a sell for me yet, get to run the new 2.0 software anyway, no brainer.

I spend most of my time shuttling between two residences and all around the City of Fairbanks, so before you label me as a snob, consider: 60 hours a week on the street these days, the rest between two rest areas (known as "home"), with a "significant other," and some customers waiting on me. If you can't trust a mobile device to come through all the time with help on these things, by any available option, then it might be time to scrap the RaZR 3.

Also nice to have a portable entertainment center, which is what I paid the premium for.

Still lust after that BlackBerry keyboard, though lol.

Your YouTube history belongs to Viacom.

Judge rules Google must turn over all YouTube user histories to Viacom. How to really broadcast yourself.

Everybody's doing it.

DIY Yahoo resignation letter.

Google senior executive to run EMI.

Can't help but think this is a good thing for the industry and for consumers.

Wishful thinking about the C block auctions?

From Wired via AP. Can we now look forward to proprietary versions of "Android," if the vaporware ever does appear? I'm skeptical about almost every aspect.

Update: I see the Android SDK is now available for download.