Rubin also noted that Android co-founder Rich Miner had a cellphone speech company called Wildfire.

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Rich Miner, in Google's Boston office, is leading the business side of the effort, sources say.

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That brawl came at San Francisco's Open Mobile Summit last week, where tensions boiled over into a series of subtle (and not-so-subtle) jabs between Google exec Rich Miner, Symbian veep Jerry Panagrossi, and Nokia's Mary McDowell.

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Just occasionally, everything clicks: when a stolid, silent old miner strangles the life out of a rich young girl, you feel the rage of a whole society sharpened to a terrible point.

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