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Google Phone Gets Release Date

It's October 20th according to CrunchGear, who received the info from a "little birdy" who also confirmed that the phone's official announcement would go down on September 23rd. It looks like Jason Miller's daughter is going to get here first.

Nokia Buys Mobile Platform 'Symbian'

Yesterday’s news that Nokia acquired location based social network Plazes, was worthy only of making our Pilgrim’s Picks.

Windows 7 Gets Multi-Touch Capabilities

OK, so tonight Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer showed off a tiny piece of Windows 7: that multi-touch capabilities will be built into the OS. Tons of info on this over on TechMeme. Of course, viewers here last week had a lengthy discussion and demo with the guy who invented these features inside Microsoft Research.

Google Android Wants Developers but...

So, I’m watching the Android video and talking with my friends who are developers. Man, I thought my videos were boring, this one takes the cake. Steve Jobs does NOT have to worry about losing his job to the folks from Google. I didn’t see ONE feature that will get normal people to switch from the iPhone. This comes across like something developers developed for other developers without thought of how they were going to build a movement.