Google OS to change game

Shifting business models make for strange bedfellows-and nowhere is that so clear as Google’s potential linkup with Verizon Wireless, which is said to be negotiating with the search giant to carry phones equipped with Google’s mobile operating system.
Consider just the past year: Verizon and Google have warred in front of Congress over the idea of net neutrality, and, more recently, Verizon sued the FCC after the regulatory body adopted two of Google’s four suggestions for a coming wireless-spectrum auction.
So why is Verizon (along with Sprint Nextel Corp. and TMobile USA Inc., both also mentioned as potential carrier partners) playing nice? To understand why these carriers don’t want to dismiss Google’s mobile ambitions too quickly, take a look at the effect the other