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Google has hired Simon Prakash, a senior director at Apple, for a “secret project,” according to “VentureBeat” (http://macte.ch/L2A4h). The project is “presumably run by Google co-founder Sergey Brin, the article adds.

Prakash worked at Apple for more than eight years and was most recently the senior director of product integrity at Apple. Before Apple, he was director of engineering design validation at Cielo Communications. He was also a reliability and FA manager at 3Com. (The photo is courtesy of “VentureBeat.”)

Apple has three of the top 10 spots in Google’s Zeitgeist results for 2011 (http://www.googlezeitgeist.com/en).

The iPhone was number six on the list, Steve Jobs was number nine and the iPad 2 was number 10. Google says “Zeitgeist sorted billions of Google searches to capture the year’s 10 fastest-rising global queries and the rest of the spirit of 2011.”

Mobile wallets are coming, and while MNOs [mobile network operators] will provide the majority of NFC-based mobile wallets, their market share will erode between 2012 and 2016 as Google and Apple claim loyal users, according to ABI Research (http://www.abiresearch.com).

“By the end of 2012, Google will prove that Google Wallet is a hit with consumers. By 2014, we will see Google Wallets supported alongside competing MNO offerings globally,” says Mark Beccue, senior analyst, mobile commerce and NFC. “MNOs will provide 75% of all mobile wallets in 2012, shrinking to 63% in 2016.”

CEO Eric Schmidt says Google will continue to offer support to firms using its Android system that are involved in legal disputes, according to “Reuters” (http://macte.ch/yRO6F). Samsung and HTC are both involved in patent disputes with Apple