Google to boost mobile internet

By Richard Waters in San Francisco and Paul Taylor in New York, FT
Published: November 5 2007 16:58

Google vaulted past Microsoft on Monday by unveiling a long-awaited mobile strategy in a bid to speed up the use of the internet on mobile phones.

The plan, involving a new software platform for mobile handsets and a broad international alliance of more than 30 handset makers and communications companies, could prove a disruptive force to the economics of the mobile industry in the long-term, according to analysts.

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