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Google is finding that launching an entirely new cell phone platform is taking longer than expected. When it first announced its Android mobile operating system, Google said the first Android phones would be available during the second half of this year. Now the mobile carriers that signed up as Android partners are pushing out their launches, with only T-Mobile still trying to get an Android phone out by the fourth quarter of this year. All the other carriers are pushing out their deployments until 2009.

(http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/23/googles-android-hits-snags-with-mobile-carriers/ 6/23)

Berlin, Germany based Plazes, a location based social network (and one of the first startups we ever wrote about here on TechCrunch, back in 2005), has been acquired by Finland-based Nokia, the companies are announcing today. The price is not being disclosed. (http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/23/breaking-germanys-plazes-acquired-by-nokia 6/23)