I, Robot: The Man Behind the Google Phone
The NYTimes Markoff rips off Isaac Asimov, but gets everybody to link to him today because we are now finding out who is behind the Google phone.
Andy Rubin who's company Android.com was acquired by Google is heading up the project that will put Google Mobile on billions of phones worldwide.
Andy's earlier company Danger Inc created the Sidekick, so he understands this market and the potential for a ubiquitous mobile device that returns Google web services to users around the globe.
Andy was also a Microsoft employee on the defunct Web TV project, how did they let him get away?
Markoff missed the connection to Googles earlier announcement about OpenSocial, the first release of Goggles Mobile phone service - the phone is after all a social device.