Abhishek Tiwari

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The rumor around GDrive has been around for last couple of years. There were those who even built software to utilize GMail’s storage space as a drive loadable onto your PC. The combined value of their effort in the online office space and the $100 laptop intiative along with the GDrive was touted as the next big thing.

Finally today Google announced (in a subtle way) their plans for offering additional storage to it’s users. Launched by their Picasa team, it is being positioned as a very simple and easy way to extend storage for your existing Google services. Currently you can extend it to support your GMail (current capacity: 2.8 GB) and Picasa Web Albums (1GB). Naturally they plan to extend it to other services like Docs and Spreadsheets. Users can simply purchase extra storage with straight forward plans listed below.

• 6 GB ($20.00 per year)
• 25 GB ($75.00 per year)
• 100 GB ($250.00 per year)
• 250 GB ($500.00 per year)

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Recently I posted about a new mobile service (currently in beta) called Mosh Mobile, who was planning to offer free mobile service to its subscribers. There plan was to offer ads within messages and while browsing the internet. However there plan was to still sell the handsets (although cheap) to the users. I had wished that they could even make that free, which will make this offering unbeatable.

Over last few days there has been a buzz in the blogosphere about Google Phone. Today some credible sources are reporting that Google is definitively working on a phone and has been meeting with several vendors to identify the best path forward. Now the Google phone speculation is nothing new. Even I mentioned it in an earlier post. However this time around the rumors say that they are planning to offer it for free and support it by ads.

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Most of you know about the FCC auction of 700 MHZ spectrum. I covered it in a previous post. Google had thrown the gauntlet in the game and asked FCC to include following conditions in the auction rules:

• Open Apps
• Open Devices
• Open Services
• Open Networks

They backed up the request with $4.6 Billion cash. These rules would have really allowed other players to get into the market and offer services, which would loosen the stong-hold by the big boys. This would have been a great win for the consumer.

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Over the past few weeks I have posted about how Google rising to create its own network for a “Any Device, Any Application”. Although related, this one is not the next in that series.

Earlier today, I was reading John Dvorak’s article on MarketWatch about Google Sprint partnership and what it means to other big boys. We already know of Google’s big move with the FCC and its open ambition to become a big time wireless player. This move has ruffled AT&T’s feathers to some extent, drawing out some interesting public statements.

Now Google and Sprint have formed a partnership around WiMax and are planning a range of services. Sprint already hurting after its merger and losing some of its tech savvy customers to iPhone. We can easily bet that Sprint would be looking for an iPhone killer. Something which can reinstate its image as the most technologically advanced carrier.

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Few days back I wrote about the rise of Google as a network provider and their offer to the FCC. Read it here.

This is the second installment of the article. Continuing on their path of strategic moves within wireless, they made another announcement today. Google is partnering with Sprint to deliver WiMax services

On the first glance this doesn’t look much as the press release only mentions that Google will offer search services on the WiMax devices. However this is just the begining.

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