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Here is the letter I got from Google today in regards to freeing up the tv airways!

 Hi,
We did it.

On November 4, 2008, by a vote of 5-0, the Federal Communications Commission agreed to free the unused TV airwaves for unlicensed public use.

This is a tremendous victory for Internet users.

Thank you for being one of the more than 20,000 who signed the Free the Airwaves petition to the FCC.  This historic vote would not have been possible without your effort.

And many thanks to the Commission for showing great leadership on this issue.

Read Google Co-Founder Larry Page’s reaction to the vote on the Official Google Blog:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/vote-for-broadband-in-white-spaces.html

Thanks,
FreeTheAirwaves.com

Email sent by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, sponsor of Free the Airwaves.

Now this is a really cool product that I personally believe the market, specifically the enterprise, can, should and will embrace. Remember the Kindle? That big chunk of white plastic with Treo-like keyboard? Well then, check out Plastic logic and they are about to release to the market at the 1st quarter of 2009. Check out the Plastic Logic website and here is a demo video off YouTube:

A huge cheer for this step forward in world mapping and the process of making it available at the tip of our fingers, via browsers on our desktops/laptops and cell phones (who said Android?). Quite amazing that Google turned 10 this passing week and had already contributed so much to the shaping of our present and future world.

PS-

Make sure you check out the animation by Andy Plesser: Google Satellite Now Watching You From 423 Miles Up.

this totally sucks because still there is no Mac version and I am used to either use the pathetic uploader and iPhoto (yucckk). Well, I guess there is no option but run vmware for this one.

Google Photos Blog: Announcing Picasa 3.0 and a new version of Picasa Web Albums!.