{"id":5030,"date":"2006-11-13T13:03:45","date_gmt":"2006-11-13T13:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/google-free-cell-phones.html"},"modified":"2006-11-13T13:03:45","modified_gmt":"2006-11-13T13:03:45","slug":"google-free-cell-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wireless\/google-free-cell-phones.html","title":{"rendered":"Google: Free Cell Phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Eric Schmidt <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2006\/11\/11\/technology\/bc.tech.google2.reut\/?postversion=2006111122\"><font color=\"#800080\">says<\/font><\/a> cell phones should be free. Google has no plans to give away cell phones but is obvious the company is perfectly positioned to show their ads on the small screens of cell phones. Just as newspapers and magazines have lower subscription costs due to advertising support, Schmidt sees the same thing happening to mobile phones. Google has recently spent considerable time and effort on designing applications for mobile devices and it is logical that &quot;gadgets&quot; will be a strategic area for the company in the coming years.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Schmidt says cell phones should be free. Google has no plans to give away cell phones but is obvious the company is perfectly positioned to show their ads on the small screens of cell phones. Just as newspapers and magazines have lower subscription costs due to advertising support, Schmidt sees the same thing happening<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[768,283,1595,1596],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5030"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}