Was bored today so thought I'd nip over to googles blog and see what they're up to.

 Turns out they classify themselves as still a young company. They feel the need to throw nearly a billion at a line of defense.

They talk about buying patents from a company in bankruptcy. Nortel.  Never heard of them. Something to do with telecommunications or something like that.

 Ah...telecommunications...that's a phone company...am I right?

 Anyhow. Google wants protection so they don't get sued. 900 million bucks for a portfolio. That's some amount for protection. 

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/patents-and-innovation.html

That's just what they're calling the "stalking horse price" starting point a think that means. Just a guess.

http://www.androidcentral.com/google-bids-nortels-patent-portfolio-hopes-helping-android-and-chrome

It's going for auction anyway.Just incase anyone wants to outbid them. LOL

Robert