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The rationale behind ReqWireless acquisition

January 17th, 2006

Google recently announced the acquisition or ReqWireless, done probably mid of last year. Several posters are questioning the rationale of this acquisition. My previous “guess” was the acquition of Opera (see my Predictions for 2006 ). But ReqWireles is probably cheaper than Opera, and has several interests for Google:

• It provides a talented team of people. I would not be surprised the GoogleLocal has been partially made thanks to this team. Also, the fact that GoogleLocal client contains a mini browser is a good indication of this.
• I think that this small browser wills be used to provide a better user experience to end user to access to the Google personalized portal. There is a full XHTML access, but user experience is still average . I would not be surprised if Google provides a “Google personalized client” to access to your email, buddy list, photos, etc in J2me, using partially some microbrowsing based on ReqWireless techno…

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