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Palm webOS designer Matias Duarte to Google.

Maybe they can make that hideous Android interface look better. More here.

More evidence Apple and Steve Jobs are right about Flash on smartphones.

Computerworld offers results in the ongoing back and forth regarding Adobe Flash’s viability on mobile platforms.  In short, tests conducted using Flash on several mobile operating systems including Google’s latest (Android Froyo) show a marked battery and performance drain and even crashed at one point. No doubt Apple needs to work a little harder to [...]

Apple to make MobileMe completely free?

Word from Electronista is that MobileMe might become an entirely free service as Apple bids to directly compete against Google’s similar package of free offerings for Android users.  Sources cited indicate such an change to the service will come sooner rather than later, which makes a certain amount of sense, considering the next release of [...]

Apple buys Siri, a ‘mobile assistant’ search app, as Google war continues heating up.

Looks like Apple just got into the search business.  Siri, a mobile assistant, is designed to make it easy to find just about anything while running around town.  By no means is this a search take-all strategy, but Apple’s toe is definitely in the water. Put Apple’s recent claims that they’re the biggest mobile device company [...]

Google sign-on system gets compromised.

After reading this story it seems like losing a phone – even if it’s the most coveted new release of 2010 – ain’t such a big deal after all.

Google to open source $124.6m video codec, says report.

Is this the future of video under HTML5 and the future web? Sure makes H.264 and Flash look like also-rans.

Here’s yet another reason Apple’s controlled iPhone ecosystem shifts control from carriers to consumers.

If you think simply buying a Google Android device is going to set you free from closed ecosystems like the Apple iPhone and App Store combo, think again. Carriers are already showing signs of taking advantage of the devices on their networks that aren’t explicitly locked to any particular mobile OS, and Android seems to [...]

Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt having coffee together. Photos prove it.

What about that fight between Jobs and Schmidt?  One way or the other they seem to have at least patched it up enough to have coffee together. Now if we could just get them to wear something different for a change.  Sheesh.

Apple’s spat with Google is getting personal.

What’s the argument here?  Don’t even consider trying to clone one of Steve’s babies.  If you were a friend, you will be an enemy.  And it will be personal.

So far the Google phone’s a sales failure.

Google’s online-only phone selling model has failed | Googling Google | ZDNet.com.