Google is now saying that despite what you might have read in The New York Times , it hasn't reached an agreement with Verizon on how the corporate giants will determine the future of the Internet. The Kremlin was, I suspect, easier to read than the telecom policy world. But whatever the truth is here, it remains a useful episode. The rumor floating around is that Internet giant Google and network giant Verizon have been cobbling out a side agreement -- outside the bounds of the ongoing FCC negotiations on network neutrality taking place right at the moment -- that would have kept neutrality principles alive on the wired Internet while opening up the troubling possibility that some content -- say, just for an example, Google's YouTube's videos -- would be faster and more accessible on the huge and growing mobile Internet that includes iPhones, celll phones, and 3G iPads. The subtext for the Google-Verizon agreement report (and, frankly, given how these things work, the rumor could...