For Google, Advertising and Phones Go Together | Linux Today

For Google, Advertising and Phones Go Together

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 8, 2007

“For more than two years, a large group of engineers at Google
has been working in secret on a mobile phone project. As word about
their efforts has trickled out, expectations in the tech world for
what has been called the Google phone, or GPhone, have risen, the
way they do for Apple loyalists ahead of a speech by Steven P.
Jobs.

“But the GPhone is not likely to be the second coming of the
iPhone–and Google’s goals are very different from Apple’s…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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