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Google buying phone company?

Andy S.

Will the Google phone allow foreign dictionary searches? 

In that case you will find out that calembour should read "du jour" not "de jour".

Chad H.

Grand Central is in Beta? 

That would explain why Google is interested... Although you see Beta splashed around so much on Google I was beginning to thing they'd trademarked it or something.

Frantisek Janak

"Numbers can be blocked"... 

... that's a Super-Dee-Dupper(TM) feature I would like to have. Imagine the über-power to simply block email, chat and phone communication with just one click in your gmail contact list.

"It's a great feeling" as it is written in the Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun 1 ad with Hitler standing in front of his army, I lol'd hard when I have seen it.