But he is backing them up with his latest effort--a company called ClearNova --to create a software development environment to build AJAX applications.

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Well, it is fabulous to be able to create a development or test environment so quickly, but the use of production data represents a huge risk.

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Google hopes--though it will take a year or more to find out--that the economics of a cheaper, easily re-engineered handset will create a phone-development environment far different from today's proprietary closed models--in which a small number of service providers dictate to relatively few manufacturers what they want on their custom-designed models--and closer to the "fast and cheap" Internet design model.

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