Google shares pass the $700 mark

Google's shares have passed $700 for the first time, lifted by reports it plans to enter the mobile phone market.Its stock rose 1.7% to $707 on Wednesday on rumours it is working with US networks Verizon and Sprint Nextel.

While none of the firms have commented, Google is said to be looking at mobile phones that run on its software. Google's shares have risen by $100 in the last month alone. Read more

UC Berkeley creates radio out of a nanotube

University of California at Berkeley's nanoradio might be a 100 billion times smaller than the first commercial radios, but it plays the hits that never die.

Alex Zettl, a professor of physics at the university, has made a radio out of a single carbon nanotube that's about 10,000 times thinner than a human hair. It runs on batteries and you need headphones to use it, but it tunes in stations on the FM dial. Read more

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Almost the Google PC: Everex gPC available at Wal-Mart

On Thursday, WalMart begins selling the Everex Green gPC TC2502, a $198, low-power, Linux-based PC designed primarily for running Web 2.0 applications.

When users first fire up their gPC, they'll get a Mac-like desktop with a series of program icons "docked" across the bottom. The icons are bookmarks to popular and useful Web 2.0 services from Google and other vendors. There are icons for Google Docs, Gmail, Google Maps, and YouTube, for example, as well as Meebo, Facebook, and Wikipedia. Sprinkled into the lineup are some non-Web-based apps, like Skype and Gimp, but the novice user won't know, initially, which are local applications and which are Web services. Read more

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Yahoo on OpenSocial: Socialization standards are good for all

Yahoo offered up an official statement about Google's OpenSocial APIs: “Social networking platforms are an emerging space and we believe there is a need for the industry to collectively develop several different sets of common standards to drive growth and innovation in this area. While OpenSocial is currently just a proposal, we are very hopeful this effort will gain the broad industry support required to develop into one of the widely adopted, common sets of socialization standards the industry needs.” In parsing this statement, it sounds like general acceptance for the concept of standards collectively developed, and appreciation for the OpenSocial "proposal" and "effort." Yahoo is "very hopeful" that OpenSocial gains "broad industry support." So it would seem that Yahoo isn’t ready to get on the Google’s OpenSocial train, but is hanging around the station just in case.

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First Google gPhone Photos Probably Fake- Gizmodo

It was only a matter of time before pictures of the Google Phone hit the pipes. Maybe they're real. Or maybe the third tier Chinese company e28 is riding the buzz with some irresistible blog bait leaks. Either way, if this is what hardware running Google's secret OS sauce looks like, it's probably doomed......

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Dollar, Oil and Gold

As US dollar weakens, the prices of Oil and Gold gone up resulting in the highest oil price ever 96$ per barrel and the highest rise in last 27 years for the price of Gold. Gold prices have now risen 25% since August.

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Asif to miss India series

Pakistan paceman Mohammad Asif is ruled out of their one-day series in India with a chronic elbow injury.

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