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Now for a completely unsubstantiated Google rumor. According to Engadget, Google will be announcing a currently unnamed mobile OS sometime after Labor Day. While they are unlikely to be trying to enter the mobile phone market, they do seem ready to position themselves as a cellular software provider.

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From Engadget,

We understand that the “Gphone OS” (our name for it, not theirs) began development after Google’s very quiet 2005 acquisition of mobile software company Android, started by Danger cofounder and former-prez / CEO Andy Rubin. At Google, Andy’s team has developed a Linux-based mobile device OS (no surprise) which they’re currently shopping around to handset makers and carriers on the premise of providing a flexible, customizable system — with really great Google integration, of course.

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Will Google release an OS? Will cell phone makers flock to be on the ground floor of Mountain View’s next new toy, will Steve Jobs have a conniption fit when he hears about Google stomping on his territory? All this and more, when the information becomes available.

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