Get ready to hear a lot about how a certain search giant's offerings can be accessed through cell phones. Google intends to honor a rather geeky occasion (the anniversary of the original Star Trek pilot) not with a doodle, but with a week-long "celebration of all things mobile."
Star Trek introduced a device known as "the Communicator" that is widely acknowledged to be the precursor of today's cell phones, so the tie-in sort of makes sense. Without Kirk, Spock, Bones, and the rest of the gang, it's doubtful that we'd all have tiny communications devices on us around the clock.
Google has, however, veered a bit away from a "thank you" to Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and towards blatant self-promotion. On the Official Gmail Blog, a post tried to teach people about visiting gmail.com in a mobile browser and/or using a phone's built-in email application. Not that many readers of the blog probably haven't figured that out.http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2009/10/12/google-celebrates-star-trek-talks-cell-phones
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