Google Android penetrates 11 US schools

p2pnet news view Advertising | P2P:- Giant online advertising company Google has generously donated cellphones to 11 American colleges and universities for use in introductory computer-science courses this fall.

Well gosh darn, Gargle, that’s so, well, um, ah …

Ball State University, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Harvard University, Indiana University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mills College, the University of Colorado at Boulder, the University of Michigan, the University of San Francisco, and Wellesley College, will now become Gargoyle advertising and R&D divisions with students doing the work at virtually no cost to the company.

It’s, “hoping that students will build some interesting applications for the company’s cellphone software,” says Wired Campus, going on:

“Each college has received 20 HTC phones loaded with Google’s Android operating system, which the company says allows students with no programming experience to create applications for sites like Facebook and Twitter.”

Wellesley College computer-science professor P. Takis Metaxas will, “teach a class using the phones starting next week, said a student who doesn’t know how to program can learn how to make applications on the Android software. Most of the students signed up for his class are freshmen, he said.”

Who’ll be paying for the classroom rentals and staff fees at the 11 schools? – one wonders.

A spokeswoman for Google called the collaboration with the colleges an “experiment” and said it could be expanded to other schools in the future if it proves successful, says the story. – P2pnet

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