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Googlers getting G1 for Christmas
techdigest.tv - 12/24/2008
Googlers getting G1 for Christmas
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Normally companies pay out cash as a Christmas bonus, but not Google this year. The search giant will be handing out T-Mobile G1 phones to all its employees as thanks for their hard work this year. The phones will come without a SIM card, but unlocked. They'll also be specially customized, ...
G1 Phone Owners May Get a Battery Replacement Christmas Gift from T-Mobile
googleandblog.com - 12/26/2008
G1 Phone Owners May Get a Battery Replacement Christmas Gift from T-Mobile
— googleandblog.com — Post from: Google And Blog G1 Phone Owners May Get a Battery Replacement Christmas Gift from T-Mobile... Post from: Google And Blog G1 Phone Owners May Get a Battery Replacement Christmas Gift from T-Mobile A replacement extended life battery may be ... (more) G1 Phone Owners May Get a Battery Replacement Christmas ...

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Google to Employees: No Christmas Bonus, Here's a G1 Instead [Screwged]
gizmodo.com - 12/22/2008
Google to Employees: No Christmas Bonus, Here's a G1 Instead [Screwged]
— gizmodo.com — In holidays past, when money flowed like hot Santa tears and melted gum drops , Googlers looked... forward to cash bonuses that topped $20,000. This year, they're getting $180 worth of "dogfood" —a G1. Updated 1:05PM Yep, they're all getting ... (more) Google to Employees: No Christmas Bonus, Here's a G1 ...

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Google to Employees: No Christmas Bonus, Here's a G1 Instead
gizmodo.com - 12/22/2008
Google to Employees: No Christmas Bonus, Here's a G1 Instead
— gizmodo.com — In holidays past, when money flowed like hot Santa tears and melted gum drops , Googlers looked... forward to cash bonuses that topped $20,000. This year, they're getting $180 worth of "dogfood" a G1. Updated 1:05PM Yep, they're all getting G1s even ... (more) Google to Employees: No Christmas Bonus, Here's a G1 Instead

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Obsessable News Feed:  Google replaces holiday cash bonus with Android phone

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Google replaces holiday cash bonus with Android phone
Obsessable News Feed — Google is delivering the gift of gadgets this holiday season, outfitting all its employees with Android phones. While a seemingly kind gesture, the move's causing a bit of a stir online, with accusations of Scrooge-like behavior, as the phones are replacing a traditional cash bonus. The company is sending out phones worldwide, to any employees living where it would be legal to use the handsets - about 85% of them are eligible. Instead of the US-only T-Mobile G1, Google's gifting Dream phones (referring to the HTC Dream, the G1's name before T-Mobile branding) which are unlocked to work on any GSM network across the ...

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Google Gives Dream Bonus — Digital Trends
The New York Times has reported that this Christmas, as a means of cutting back, Google has foregone that $1,000 an employee cash bonus and has opted instead to give its more than 20,000 employees worldwide unlocked Dream phones. The cell phone gift was first mentioned in ...
Googlers Get The Gift Of The G1; Probably Won't Inflate HTC Sales — mocoNews
The day after we heard that HTC expects to sell more than it previous expectation of one million Android devices by year-end, we now hear that Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ) is passing out the T-Mobile G1's to employees as a holiday bonus. Valleywag reports that in the past, the search engine paid as ...
Google Gives Employees G1s... to Make Way For G2s? — Google Watch
By now many of you have surely seen the well circulated holiday e-mail from Google about T-Mobile G1s with custom Android logos being doled out to 85 percent of Googlers in lieu of a cash bonus for Christmas. That's some 18,000-plus Android-based smart phones if Google truly has over 20,000 ...
Google to Employees: No Christmas Bonus, Here's a G1 Instead [Screwged] — Gizmodo
In holidays past, when money flowed like hot Santa tears and melted gum drops , Googlers looked forward to cash bonuses that topped $20,000. This year, they're getting $180 worth of "dogfood" —a G1. Updated 1:05PM Yep, they're all getting G1s—even Google, who prints money as a ...
Google Hands Out 'Dogfood' as Christmas Bonus — Gawker: valleywag
Groans are issuing from the Googleplex over this year's holiday bonus. In the past, the search engine paid cash — as much as $20,000 or $30,000 per Googler, we hear. This year? A cell phone. Oh, but not just any cell phone: A version of the G1 currently sold for $179.99 by T-Mobile, ...