Remember WhatsOpen.com, the stealth search startup that piqued Google cofounder Sergey Brin's interest last month? Brin was so intrigued he told the founders to keep the company hush-hush. Now, however, a source has leaked screenshots of WhatsOpen's secret project. The company has a Web application which shows users nearby stores and their operating hours -- "what's open." But I'm told by a source that WhatsOpen has also written the first wireless app for Google's new Android operating system. (You may know Android better as the software behind the still-mythical Googlephone.) Demo screenshots after the jump. Join discussion...

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...

CNet is reporting that as part of Monday's big press conference, Google will unveil their iPhone killer gPhone OS, tentatively codenamed Android. Sources are calling the OS a "a complete mobile-phone software stack" that will be followed shortly after by a SDK (Translation: this isn't just an ad system and will have more than a bunch of lame web apps). Join discussion...

SEATTLE — Google's (GOOG) widely anticipated — and top secret — GPhone mobile phone project could trump Apple's (APPL) glitzy iPhone — by going low cost and low tech, tech analysts say. Join discussion...

Pssst, here’s the latest Google rumor: A UBS analyst has confirmed that Taiwanese handset manufacturer HTC will ship about 50,000 cell phones (Gphones)running on a mobile operating system made by the Mountain View, Calif.-based search giant by the end of this year. Join discussion...

hough some believe that Google is building a full-featured Gphone to rival Windows Mobile, there is speculation that the GPhone may actually be a lot simpler. A report from USA Today says Google is aiming to keep pricing low with low-tech phones equipped with something called a "Gbutton." 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...

Welcome to an action-packed edition of Take 5, a regular feature where we at Over The Air ask an industry insider five questions about their company and the mobile business market as a whole. This week we focus on the gPhone. Our guest is Scott Rockfeld, group marketing manager at Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT). 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...