O, I forgot!

In addition, Google is working alongside the "Open Handset Alliance" to come up with a free, open source operating system for cell phones and handhelds. They expect the hardware to be released in the 2nd half of 2008, but the SDK (software development kit) is available now. The neat thing (which I was getting my students involved in) is that they have set aside $10 million to award to different developers who write novel pieces of software for it. We are working on ideas for software that people might want on their cell phones or PDAs as we speak!