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Google’s Larry Page: Steve Jobs is ‘rewriting history’ by saying Android came after the iPhone

Steve Jobs might have thought he was lightly playing down reports that the Apple / Google rivalry had dramatically changed when he said ” they decided to compete with us — we didn’t go into the search business” at D8 , but it appears that his phrasing didn’t sit so well with Larry Page, who told Reuters yesterday that Jobs was doing a “little bit of rewriting history,” and that the “characterization of us entering [the phone market] after is not really reasonable.” Page, who was being interviewed alongside Eric Schmidt, also said that Google had been working on Android for “a very long time” and that the goal was always to develop phones with solid browsers to fill a market void. That’s true, of course — Google purchased Andy Rubin’s Android, Inc


125cc motorcycle + DIY fiberglass fairing = 214mpg, super cool looks

While the quest for alternate fuels goes on, so too other peoples’ search for the ultimate in economy while running on good ‘ol petrol.


Hacker creates Lego Mindstorms NXT-606 drum kit, just because he can (video)

If you’ve taken your Lego Mindstorms NXT kit to the Nerd Cup , created a 3D scanner to digitize your Precious Moments collection, and trained it to solve a Rubik’s Cube , you might think you’ve run out of things to do.


Motorola XT502 with Android 2.1 gets teased in China, out-KIRFs itself

Oh China, you tease us with much love and KIRFness , except this time it’s actually a real phone — or is it?


Motorola Charm spotted in T-Mobile ad, free on contract for back-to-schoolers?

Advertising a product before it’s even official, what could be more patriotic? TmoNews has a convincing (but still unconfirmed) picture of a T-Mobile “Back to School” poster featuring Samsung :) , Gravity T, Gravity 3 , and… Motorola Charm


Prototype car with tactile feedback challenges the blind to drive (update)

We can already imagine just what you’re thinking — the blind have no place behind the wheel, right? As it turns out, though, cars can steer themselves these days , so there technically no reason why (save a few laws) a computer-assisted blind person couldn’t drive.