"We have many PC partners who serve their markets exceedingly well and we see no need to enter that market; we would rather partner with great companies," a Google spokesperson wrote in an e-mail.
An inexpensive computer in the $100-$200 range is not unobtainable. Google and others, including AMD, Brightstar, News Corp., and Red Hat are corporate sponsors in an effort by MIT Media Lab to create and sell a $100 PC to the developing world. The computer is due in 2006.
The rumor mill has Google announcing that it plans to introduce a mesh networking device - Google Cube - for home networking capable of seamlessly connecting and transferring digital media. Imagine the possibilities . . . the ultimate portal.
Too expensive for the home? Not if it is subsidized by Google. Yes, give them the toilets and sell 'em the toilet paper - forever.
Perhaps, click a few advertisements a week and the payment to Google for the Google Cube / computer is waived. Click a few more times and your online service cost is reduced or free.
Does Rambus find itself in this picture? Who knows? Networking interfaces?
Visit MIT Medi Lab linked here.
Read a couple interesting articles speculating about Google's plans at eweek.com linked here and zdnet.com linked here.
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Updated 1/9/06 linked here.
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"off the above topic" as it may seem, but....
I extend my prayers and heartfelt condolences to the families, friends and relatives of the coal miners.
May they all rest in the hands of the good Lord. +++
furthering the "ot"...
The WVa mining tragedy now becomes a modern day version of The Hatfields and The McCloys.
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