| The computer chip maker, Intel, is now trying to stake | | | | desktops are as popular and as essential as ever but |
| its claim in the 3G Cell Phones / smart phone industry. | | | | to think a company can sit back and watch others |
| They are said to be making an open source operating | | | | take control of the growing 3G cell phone / |
| system for mobile devices known as Moblin, hoping to | | | | Smartphones industry is simply ludicrous. |
| branch out of its regular business confines of | | | | This industry is a money maker and a place where |
| microprocessors. It is just one of many computer and | | | | companies can show off innovative creativity and |
| internet based companies that is now trying to get in | | | | become quite experimental. But those who do not get |
| on the smart phone revolution. | | | | on board soon I fear will never get another opportunity |
| Moblin, which stands for Mobile Linux, offers | | | | to join in. It's nice to see these companies finally testing |
| panel-based navigation to browse running programs, | | | | the waters, and it's great for us consumers, more |
| widget based social networking applications as well as | | | | competition between the companies and likely better |
| a Firefox browser. Intel will allow programmers and | | | | products, too. |
| developers write programs that will work on multiple | | | | Yes, it the innovativeness and the competition |
| platforms as well as different types of computers. | | | | between companies that should make consumers |
| The idea behind the Intel company move is to break | | | | happiest. When more companies like Apple, Microsoft, |
| into the cellular industry because as 3G Cell Phones | | | | Google and Intel get into the mix the more ideas are |
| become more the standard for accessing the internet | | | | shared and the better products are produced. The |
| it becomes imperative that these once top of the line | | | | technological geniuses that are now competing for our |
| computer and software makers aren't left in the dust | | | | business, and the only way to get that business it |
| of newer innovative companies. This marks a stretch | | | | make the best products available. So let the innovation |
| in the industry in which software makers must make | | | | take over while we simply choose which we like best. I |
| the leap, whether they like it or not, into the smart | | | | guarantee by the end of this year we will see things |
| phone industry. Inevitably this is where the computing | | | | on smart phones that we never thought possible. |
| industry is heading. Completely, no. Laptops and | | | | Remember that. Don't say I didn't tell you so. |