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<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>From: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/04/google_denies_pc/<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Google
has quashed a rumor that it plans to enter the ultra low-margin PC business.
The denial will surprise few given the speculative nature of the original <cite><i><font
face="Times New Roman">LA Times</font></i></cite> piece that made the Google PC
claim.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>In a 2006
technology predictions story, the <cite><i><font face="Times New Roman">Times</font></i></cite>
declared, "Sources say Google has been in negotiations with Wal-Mart
Stores Inc., among other retailers, to sell a Google PC. The machine would run
an operating system created by Google, not Microsoft's Windows, which is one
reason it would be so cheap — perhaps as little as a couple of hundred
dollars.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Er, not
so fast.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Reporters
calling Google's public relations staff about the rumor were told it is
"wholly inaccurate." Similarly, Wal-Mart's rather busy PR team
classified the <cite><i><font face="Times New Roman">Times</font></i></cite> speculation
as "a rumor without any truth to it at all."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Central Iowa Linux Users Group<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Cialug] OT:
Daydreaming out loud</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>On 1/3/06, <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Nathan C. Smith</span></b>
<<a href="mailto:smith@ipmvs.com">smith@ipmvs.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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So I'm thinking about this "Google PC" at Wal-Mart, and I'm thinking
about<br>
Google's giant search engine machine and I'm wondering "can they extend
this<br>
to the computers they sell?" So everyone's computer contributes
a little to <br>
either the processing, the knowledge, or both at Google Corporate?<br>
1) it would be really clever and interesting if they pulled it off<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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But I somehow doubt that most consumers of a $200 "PC like device"
have reliable enough broadband to make it appealing to google. Having vast cpu
power paid for (and powered) by someone else is nifty, but not so cool when you
can't get to it. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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