Google Links Up With Verizon to Fight Apple

Verizon will to launch Android handsets sometime in "the next few weeks." Google will create Android-based devices preloaded with apps that will run on Verizon's network. Straight off its snarky ad campaign attacking Apple's iPhone, it looks like Verizon will finally offer consumers the type of next-generation mobile phone operating system and experience that have been available on AT&T and T-Mobile for more than a year. Meanwhile, Google gets a large carrier partner that can help it win over market share for Android.