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A Google executive in Spain has confirmed that the search giant’s R&D is working on a mobile phone.

Read the translated news item (I don’t know Spanish — except for a few lewd terms — but Google has to work on its translation efforts. “Movable phone” — that’s original. ;))

Cellphone maker LG is sponsoring a National Texting Championship in the US. At stake is US$25,000. But, you gotta buy an enV phone (priced at US$79.99).

I bet Filipinos would come out on top, if we could participate.

(By the way, “texting” is a verb now?)

With homegrown 3G mobile technology still in the works, China recently rolled out 4G in Shanghai.

Field tests are being done for the new system, which will allow up to 100 Mbps (3G is at about 3 Mbps). The new technology is expected to be commercialized in 2010.

Via Crunchgear.

Not!

I was scheming a quick-and-dirty email-to-SMS hack:

• Send email notifications to my vanity mail address. Tag it “sms”.
• Create a filter that forwards mails tagged “sms” to 63xxxxxxxxxx@chikkatalk.com
• As we all know, @chikkatalk.com is Chikka’s federated XMPP server. So… mails should then be received in my mobile phone.

Easy does it, right? Well, not. Chikkatalk.com is indeed an XMPP server, but not a mail server:

[iandexter@hiraya ~]$ dig mx chikkatalk.com

; < <>> DiG 9.2.5 < <>> mx chikkatalk.com
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER< <- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 32086
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;chikkatalk.com.           IN   MX

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
chikkatalk.com.  10503 IN   SOA   ns1.chikka.com. »
   hostmaster.chikka.com.com. 2006060100 3600 600 604810 86400

;; Query time: 2 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.1.101#53(192.168.1.101)
;; WHEN: Fri Oct 27 00:53:32 2006
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 101

[iandexter@hiraya ~]$

Eep. Stupid me.

Taken at 11:43 AM on May 23, 2006; cameraphone upload by ShoZu. 1st working model (OLPC). Originally uploaded by Pete Barr-Watson.

Sweet.

The first working models of MIT’s $100 laptop (the One Laptop Per Child project) are out and were presented at the Seven Countries Task Force Meeting last 23 May 2006.

The colors are nice — how very, uhm, Ubuntu. (The prototype runs on Fedora Core 5, though. ;))

View the rest of the Flickr set. Via Boing Boing.