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Did Google ever know what it had as it hands Jaiku an EOL date

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And then there’s Jaiku, which is now being put out of its misery by Google on January 15 next year. I’m sure that everyone and every company has projects that they wished they had focused on with hindsight (Psion going for their Wavefinder DAB Radio instead of the crazy idea of a hand-held MP3 music player in 2000 being my favourite). But Jaiku is probably worse than that for Google. Their recent reputation and major launches appear to be built around try to create a huge connected social network, with mobile, location, long form messages when needed, and all the other bits and

The CrunchPad will be remembered as a signpost to new computing

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And so the CrunchPad is placed by it’s spiritual father, Michael Arrington, into the Dead Pool. I doubt it’s the last we’ll see of the device, but it’s certainly the last we’ll see of it with the CrunchPad moniker. The legalese may be in motion but some warehouse is going to churn these out within six months. All the real world stuff aside, I’m sad that the CrunchPad isn’t going to be available. Looking at that picture of the circuit board there’s a juicy 1850mah battery, an express PCMCIA 3G card, Intel Atom 1.6 CPU (perhaps a Z or N