Google unveiled its long-awaited wireless plans this morning, announcing an ambitious software strategy intended to make cell phones much cheaper and Web browsing on them much easier. Join discussion...

Google has a penchant for taking services that had been paid and offering them free, often supported by advertising. So as the company moves to enter the cellphone software business, there is a natural question of whether it will be able to subsidize the cost of wireless service. Join discussion...

A move into the hardware business would be a huge shift for the Internet search giant - and promises to turn the cell phone industry on its head. Fortune's Michal Lev-Ram reports. Join discussion...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 9 (AP) — Google said Tuesday that it had bought the Finnish start-up Jaiku, which makes a mobile phone application people can use to send short messages about where they are and what they are doing. Join discussion...

Everyone in the technologically-geared blogosphere is clamoring over the possibility of a Google Phone. We've seen unauthorized concept renderings and rumors up the wazoo, but for the most part, it's been conjecture and supposedly leaked information. To get at the truth, we go to the horse's mouth and it turns out that Google has officially "assured everyone that it will definitely launch its own-brand handset." Join discussion...

Who's going to actually make the long-awaited Google phone? Not Google, of course: The big brains at the Googleplex know better than to turn that company into a manufacturer. Brian Caulfield at Forbes.com thinks he knows, though: He figures Taiwanese manufacturer HTC will be producing the handsets. Join discussion...

nyone still speculating that Google is going to launch its own mobile phone will surely draw further inspiration from the company's latest acquisition - a social-networking site (SNS) designed exclusively for mobile members. Join discussion...

Google is planning a multi-terabit undersea communications cable across the Pacific Ocean for launch in 2009, Communications Day has learned. Join discussion...

According to shadowy "Taiwanese handset makers", Google (GOOG) is definitely building a mobile phone. The details, little things such as the hardware specs and operating system, are still reportedly being worked out. Furthermore, Google can't decide if it is going with an EDGE device or wait for 3G. Join discussion...

Gearlog got an interview with Google co-founder Larry Page talking about Google's prize for putting a robotic camera on the moon, and the interviewer asked him about the Google phone. That entire section of the interview reads thus: Join discussion...