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Our products are improving quickly and have incredibly powerful sharing and chat
functionality that wasn’t possible before the web.
We’ve started the next phase in productivity so ware. at phase is about working with
everyone seamlessly and e ortlessly. Our goal is fast, easy access to create or share from any
computer in the world. No futzing with so ware required. Just open your browser.
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Android is our newly announced mobile phone platform. We’ve gathered more than 
companies together into Android’s Open Handset Alliance.  e goals of Android are
ambitious: We aim to make your phone work be er than your computer. Android is
very open, so you can run any so ware, just like a computer. Today, Android is released
as a so ware toolkit for developers based on Linux, Java, and high-end web browser
technologies. We and our partners are very much looking forward to having Android ship
in real devices. We are excited about realizing the potential of that li le computer in your
pocket (your cool, web-centric Android phone).
In addition to Android, we endeavor to make all of our products work well with existing
phones and have been quite successful with much greater usage in a wide variety of areas.
We have been working to try to apply some of the open-access principles of the Internet to
increase user choice and innovation in the mobile space. We also have been active with a 
project focused on wireless spectrum, which has created a great deal of interest. We were
successful in helping convince the US Federal Communications Commission to a ach most
of our desired openness principles to the ongoing  Mhz auction.
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It turns out the real world ma ers to people, in the form of maps, satellite images, business
locations, bike paths, and all other types of geographic data. We are hard at work in all these
domains. We even launched photographs of nearly everything at street level in  metro
areas, integrated right into Google Maps (click the Street View bu on). Google Earth
literally goes out of this world with a new Sky mode (just click on the Sky icon). You can
see an amazing view of the night sky, complete with super-high resolution images from the
Hubble telescope that you can zoom right into.
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