skype

This article at UK site Marketing Week postulates that Dell may be working with Google to build the gphone.

Dell. And Google.

The evidence? Well, Dell did recently hire a Motorola executive! And, Dell has built PDAs. And some "senior industry sources" apparently mentioned something about it. "Senior" as in "been around a while", or as in "over-65"?

The last Google rumours we had emerging from the UK was that they were looking to buy Skype. That still hasn't happened, by the way.

What does Google+Android_700mhz+sprint+skype get you?

A Google rumour mill that's gone completely batsh*t.

This blog over at the Guardian is saying this:

Currently in favour around London's webbist community is the rumour that Google has been in negotiations to buy Skype, the web telephony firm, from eBay.

Nice. There's not even a whiff of legitimacy around this one - the blurb doesn't even pretend there is. But it's fun, isn't it?

If Google were to buy Skype, and all the other rumour bits'n'pieces were to fall in line, we could have the big G running ads on VOIP calls over an Android-running handset rocking the 700mhz spectrum. Woo-wee.

Keep in mind that eBay is an OHA member, so whether or not this rumour is true, we're definitely gonna see a Skype client for Android.

Incidentally, I love the term "webbist". It's like "chemist" or "boot", a reminder that the English speak the language better than North Americans do.