Microsoft's Mobile Plan

If you haven't seen it, Motorola launched the MPx100 at 3GSM and it's pretty great. For American and European markets, it has just about everything it needs to be a real competitor to the Nokia 6600 smartphone (which has sold over two million units since last October) and even the media-darling Treo 600. If you don't see the big tsunami of PR and marketing coming from the Northwest, let me clue you in to the spin: It's not about market share, or quality, it's about quantity of devices.

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Next year when Microsoft has significant market share [...], I'm going to be the guy just shaking my head and muttering to myself about how the disaster could've been averted.

Google's product search service Froogle goes wireless

• To use Froogle on your cell phone, just point your phone's browser to http://wml.froogle.com/
• Enter your search terms in the box and select the 'Search' button
• Use your phone's keypad arrows to scroll through the results

Via John Battelle's Searchblog