Jun
Google Khan: Now the Giant Eyes Wireless
That’s my ridiculous take-off on Genghis Khan, who was actually a very able ruler who opened up spice trade routes between Europe and China. So now I’m calling the search giant "Google Khan" to encompass the company’s lofty, take-over-the-world plans to unite East and West under one banner (theirs, of course).
I’ve been reading articles here and there that Google intends to go wireless. Details are sketchy and sometimes contradictory, so everything from a free cell phone (underwritten by paid advertisers) to some sort of Web-enabling mobile device seems to be in the works.
Rumor also has it that the Googlian wireless initiative may begin in Europe because of a strategic partnership there, but the company is already working with the FCC for "packaged bidding" for airwave licenses. "Packaged" means that Google, or whoever, could bid on a set of nationwide airwave licenses all at once instead of singly.
Stay tuned for the Google phone.
