Thursday, May 28, 2009

Google arms developers with free phones, Web tools -- Google -- InformationWeek

May 27, 2009

At its developer conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, Google executives declared victory for the Web even as they urged their developers onward. Google CEO Eric Schmidt heralded the maturation of the Internet application programming model as the fulfillment of a decades-old dream.

"It's time for us to take advantage of the amazing opportunity that's before us," he said. "Internet programming, the way we think about it now, is something we have worked on for all of our careers..."