A "search service industry" is how most engineers in the electronics industry would have described Google Inc of the US until only a few years ago. Today though, few people are unaware that Google has stepped into the digital consumer electronics field. Mobile phone operator T-Mobile USA Inc of the US released the T-Mobile G1 mobile phone, developed by HTC Corp of Taiwan, on October 22, 2008. The G1 mounts Android, the mobile phone platform developed by Google.
Google is aggressively entering the embedded systems market through JavaScript. It is possible, though, that the firm has a blind spot when it comes to the differences between what the Internet wants and what the embedded systems industry needs.
[Box 1] The Scientific Background of JavaScript
[Box 2] Google Strives to Break Free of Advertising Revenue Model
The new V8 JavaScript engine developed by Google offers very fast operation. We asked the author, who is familiar with internal programming language implementations, to take a look at how V8 has been speeded up, based on the source code released as open source.
[Box 3] Competing Browsers Also Beef Up JavaScript Engines [Box 4] Consideration for Programmers Familiar with Classes [Box 5] V8 Source Code Build & Execution
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