Rumor has it, that with Apple and Cingular teaming up with the iPhone, Google wants in. A recent job opening posted on the Google Web site appears to confirm the company may now be tinkering with more than just an idea but with some real hardware in its engineering labs.

"Google is experimenting with a few wireless communications systems including some completely novel concepts," according to the Web-site recruitment text. "We are building a small team of top-notch Logic Designers and Analog Designers aimed at nothing less than making the entire world’s information accessible from anywhere for free."

"In the wake of Apple and some other big-name brands moving into the handset business, why not Google?" said Phil Taylor, senior analyst with Strategy Analytics Ltd.

But Google isn’t the only one. Yahoo Inc. has also been striking deals and offering search-engine services to their mobile phone customers and manufacturers interested in embedding search functions directly in their handsets, according to Taylor.

Google? Yahoo? Apple? All in one place at the same time? Besides the world imploding, this means good news for us Nerds. With the top brands and minds competing for our dollars, we could see a tech explosion that hasn’t been seen in the last 20 years! That’s not all folks, it would be for dirt cheap too!

Which means futuristic ideas and toys in our hands, because in order for these search engine giants to grab our attention, they would have to come out with such a novel and original idea that it will secure not only attention but create a niche in the mobile industry.

All I can say is hold on to your underpants, it’s going to be a wild ride!

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As if the issues with Google weren’t complicated enough, eBay may also lose another one of its features. A brouhaha has stirred over the use of the "Buy It Now" button, which lets users buy the item immediately, instead of waiting until the end of an auction. eBay infringed on a patent for this service, but the US Supreme Court ruled that MercExchange was not automatically entitled to a court order blocking it. It just comes to show that someone, somewhere could get perturbed about anything. Even the little button on someone’s web page that has done nothing to anyone.

Even though eBay is heavily supported by Google’s services, eBay removes Google Adwords advertising due to Google overly promoting its Checkout online payment service to EBay’s PayPal customers.

EBay gets as much as 20% of its traffic from Google, so without Google, eBay could possibly see a decline in new customers. However, eBay could have enough publicity on its own to possibly survive their decision.

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source: PureAir.kr