If you're a fan of Google's Picasa Web Albums and you're trigger happy with your camera, you'd love this new camera from Panasonic. This gadget directly uploads your photos to Picasa straight from your camera. Details in the full article.

Opera Software has announced that it will be releasing a version of its Opera Mini browser that will be compatible with Google Android-powered phones. Further details regarding this news are available in the full article.

Google's much-awaited Android mobile phone looks to be getting medieval, as we announce its upcoming Parallel Kingdom MMORPG.

The game will be making use of the phone's GPS feature, which should make quite an interesting play experience. A teaser video for the game is available over in the full article.

We're finally seeing something concrete when it comes to the often-rumored yet mysterious Google phone. Samsung Electronics, the purveyor of mobile phone technology, is finally planning to launch phones with Google's own Android phone platform. More details in the full article!

According to a source that's close to British chip designer ARM, they will be demonstrating a prototype of Google's Android mobile phone platform in the coming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. This is certainly one more rumor related to Google. Details in the full article.

After the recent announcement of their mobile phone OS Android, Google makes another pleasant revelation: they now plan to officially offer a service that lets users store their data in a remote file storage in the near future. Now you don't have to use your GMail storage space anymore. Details in the full article!

Google has now completely debunked all rumors of a Googlephone, or Gphone, in their official blog, where they formally introduced their new open-source mobile OS platform: Android. It will be a joint effort by the members of the group known as Open Handset Alliance, comprised of companies, such as Motorola, Qualcomm, HTC, and T-Mobile.

With the Alliance, Google plans to develop a mobile OS "without the proprietary obstacles that have hindered mobile innovation".

Rumors of Web giant Google building a mobile phone have circulated over the months now, and the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) revealed that a revelation could be close. The WSJ says that Monday could be the day of Google's big announcement, and it's likely to take friends T-Mobile and Sprint with it.

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Well, it looks like it's official - Google will reportedly unveil early next month the details of its new operating system for smartphones. Exactly what the new development will be is still kept under wraps.

What was previously speculated as a new brand of mobile phone to be produced by the Internet giant was instead a foray into the software aspect of mobile phones. According to reports from Wall Street Journal (WSJ), the company will be bundling familiar Google service software along with the new OS, such as Gmail and Youtube, and will also be open to third-party developers.

While the "Gphone" software won't need a specific device to run it, there have been rumors of Google supposedly talking to HTC and LG, as well as wireless service providers like T-Mobile and Orange, about producing specialized units for it. It was however confirmed in a follow up article by WSJ that Google is already in "advanced discussions" with Verizon Wireless and Sprint on the new mobile units.

Hoping to break into the already established mobile operating system market, Google will be squaring itself off against other acknowledged open platform operating systems, including Symbian/S60, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, and Palm OS. Hopefully, we'll be hearing more concrete news from the Internet search giant in the following months to come.

The mobile market won't see a Googlephone for now, but Google is still bent on making an impact on the mobile industry. The internet giant will be trying to develop easily accessible applications on mobile phones, and provide an open-source mobile phone operating system to let third-party software developers go crazy in making applications for Google-optimized phones.

Google already approached a number of mobile phone manufacturers and conferred with them about the production of handsets specifically made compatible for the use of Google software, like the ever-useful Google Maps, Gmail and YouTube, among others.

However, since the internet mogul is planning on releasing an entirely open platform mobile operating systems, there is the issue of privacy as well as data security - two pressing matters that should be addressed.

Will Google be able to push through with their ambitious project? Only time can tell.