There's been a lot of speculation the last couple of days as to what Google was up to now. A big stock sale last week to raise $4 billion for investment purposes. Rumors of an interest in obtaining "dark fibre" networks (unused fibre optic cables). Some talk about using that cash to buy Tivo (sorry, Aquaman, this isn't it). Or were they about to unveil the Universal Translator?

Tomorrow they're announcing (though the news is out today) the launch of Talk.google.com an instant voice and text messaging system.