When Steve Jobs debuted the iPhone in 2007, he derailed Google's two year-old Android project—Google's bid to change the world of cellular software. (Reuters) In 2005, on Google’s sprawling, college-like campus, the most secret and ambitious of many, many teams was Google’s own smartphone effort—the Android project. Tucked in a first-floor corner of Google’s Building 44, surrounded by Google ad re
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