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Because Android operates its own Google-controlled fiefdom outside of the upstream stack, its growing popularity doesn’t materially benefit upstream Linux. As more hardware vendors flock to Android, the growing ubiquity of Google’s platform necessarily marginalizes the healthier and more inclusive environment that exists upstream.

Interesting numbers coming in on Android's success against iPhone and RIM.

"Android now has a third of the US market (33%). RIM's share has plummeted to 29%. Apple is holding at 25%."

"In the "also ran" category, Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 did nothing to stop its decline, which fell from 9% to 7.7%. And Palm, which is barely worth mentioning anymore, fell another point to 2.8%."

As we announced in August 2010, we are not continuing active development of Google Wave as a stand-alone product, but have been working hard on the open source Wave in a box project and on making waves accessible through Google Docs.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2379489,00.asp

"The Windows Media Player HTML5 Extension for Chrome lets Windows 7 users play H.264 videos in a Google Chrome browser. Microsoft already has similar extensions for Firefox and Internet Explorer users.
"We believe that Windows customers should be able to play mainstream HTML5 video," said Claudio Caldato, Principal Program Manager, Interoperability Strategy Team, in a blog post.

Plenty of talk going on about Google's upcoming Chrome OS, which would move computing from the laptop to the cloud. Big surprise, Stallman has his doubts about this.