Google Operating System May Speed Mobile Ecommerce
Google recently announced that it had begun work on a computer operating system that might accelerate interest in the popular mobile Internet device market. Mobile Internet devices (MIDs), which are sometimes called netbooks, are physically small and application-lite laptop computers designed specially to access the Internet over wireless protocols. MIDs have been growing in popularity with some 21 million of the small Internet appliances expected to be sold in 2009. MIDs, which often lack many customary computer applications, are expected to have a major impact on ecommerce as more consumers use MIDs to shop on the go, without firing up the "big" computer. How the Google OS Might Impact MIDs In spite of stellar growth, MIDs are ofte...