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Now that the Google/Android SDK has hit the streets and some of the dust has settled, we can begin to assess the particulars and peculiarities of the new platform.

And now, a brief digression into late medieval history.  Fourteenth century Franciscan monk and philosopher William of Occam is credited with formulating the principle of Lex Parsimoniae - the law of parsimony, a.k.a. Occam's Razor:  Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem - "Entities ought not be multiplied beyond necessity".  

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The recent Google announcement of the soon-to-be-released Android mobile stack and SDK has spawned incredible industry and media frenzy.  In my roles at the LiPS Forum, at the Linux Foundation and in my consultancy , it is splitting my brain into more fragments than Carrie's (but not as many as Mobile Linux)

Shares of Google rose to an all-time new high today onpositive analyst comments and an uptick in trading for major internet companies. The company's shares rose $9.02 to $534.02 and now has a market cap of $163.6bn. Google is certainly a major force in the market, if you were to compare market cap across the major tech vendors it ranks only behind Microsoft and is ahead of IBM, Intel, Oracle and SAP.    read more »