Google talks; world shudders

So who isn't in talks with the $707 a share money mountain otherwise known as Google about their proposed new phone system? With the markets seemingly unable to find any sensible valuation for the ad machine on steroids, Google is reportedly talking to both Verizon and Sprint about selling Google powered handsets. 

Google's M.O. is typically to destroy any pricing in the marketplace it enters, often by entering as a free service and dangling those ubiquitous ads everywhere. What that might do to the juicy wireless margins everyone is currently bleeding from the punters is any one's guess. 

But if indeed it is a mobile operating platform--and despite the hype there are precious few details what Google is actually going to propose--it won't just be the telcos who are sweating. Microsoft and the makers of the Blackberry, Research in Motion, will quickly feel the heat on sales of their mobile platforms. And if you believe the new smart phones are just PC's by another name, then for Microsoft there is the prospect of the greatest tech battle of them all, the fight for control of the PC operating system. 

The Google talks come the same week as mobile carrier UK 3 announced its partnership with EBay for its new Skype wireless phone. Skype only has 250 million plus customers. 

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