It’s been just over nine months since Google announced their intentions to acquire hardware manufacturer Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion, and now it seems that the final pieces of the deal have fallen into place. According to a new report from the Associated Press, Chinese officials have finally given the Google-Motorola deal their blessing.
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China Finally OKs Google’s Acquisition Of Motorola Mobility
Posted: 19th May 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: Acquisition, China, Chinese Officials, Google, Hardware Manufacturer, Motorola, Motorola Deal, Nine Months
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ITC bans Motorola mobile devices for infringing Microsoft patent
Posted: 18th May 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: Administrative Law Judge, Engadget, Foss, Fri, Importation, Itc, Microsoft, Mobile Devices, Moto, Motorola, Motorola Mobile, Nbsp, Patent, Patents, Pdf
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At the end of last year, an Administrative Law Judge issued an initial ruling that Motorola’s mobile devices infringe a bit of Microsoft’s IP. Now, the Commission has affirmed that decision and issued an exclusion order to ban Moto’s offending devices from importation into the US. Developing… ITC bans Motorola mobile devices for infringing Microsoft [...]
Motorola Droid 4 gets leaked ICS build, official Android 4.0.4 may soon follow
Posted: 16th May 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: Break, Droid, Engadget, Forums, Functionality, Ics, Moto, Motorola, Nbsp, Quite Some Time, Sandwich, Source Link, Stock Version, Waiting Game
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We’ve known for quite some time that Motorola intended to push Ice Cream Sandwich to the Droid 4, but until now the waiting game continued, with no end in sight. It now appears that the smartphone maker is making serious progress on its own Motoblur-infused flavor of ICS, with a stock version of the upgrade [...]
Motorola Motosmart Mix XT550 masks its middling specs with a set of nice headphones
Posted: 16th May 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: Break, China, Curve, Discover, Earbuds, Email, Engadget, Handset, Headphones, Masks, Megapixel Camera, Micro Music, Motorola, Music Application, Music Playback, Nbsp, Qualcomm, Ram, Smartphones, Yen
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HTC may be over the idea of including premium earbuds with its smartphones, but Motorola is stepping up to give it the ol’ college try with its Motosmart Mix XT550. The phone will sell in China for ¥1,699 and is targeted at “people who really care about music.” Along with the bundled set of headphones, [...]
Motorola files patent application for anti-smear display tech
Posted: 11th May 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: Appearance, Caveats, Chemical Coatings, Electronic Device, Engadget, Motorola, Nbsp, Patent Application, Patents, Smudges, Specifics, Trademark Office, Unwanted Impurities
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Motorola’s applied to patent a new display layer that aims to prevent all those smudges that inevitably accrue on our finger-friendly devices. A modern-day touchscreen problem for prim-and-proper types, the application solves it with several minute, raised layers across the surface of the device, with little reflective caveats to capture oils and other unwanted impurities, [...]
Carl Icahn unloads his LightSquared debt, creditor talks trudge on
Posted: 9th May 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: Carl Icahn, Cents On The Dollar, Charity, Chunk, Coffers, Company Debt, Creditor, Creditors, Engadget, Falcone, Fcc, Head Honcho, Ipo, Motorola, Nbsp, Reuters Report, S Board, Stranger, Trudge, Whirlwinds
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Carl Icahn is no stranger in this field — he’s been caught tussling with Motorola and bidding Yahoo’s board adieu in recent years — and most recently, he’s managed to get caught up in one of the bigger wireless whirlwinds this planet has ever seen. Just months after Icahn swooped in to buy some $250 [...]
Twitter makes its mobile site more feature phone friendly
Posted: 7th May 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: Apple, Email, Engadget, Feature Phone, Fit, Handsets, Low Bandwidth, Mobile Phone, Moniker, Motorola, Nbsp, Phone Users, Samsung, Smartphone, Thoughts And Feelings, Twitter, Uniform Experience
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When you look at the latest, greatest devices from Apple, Samsung, Motorola and the like all day, it can be easy to forget that not everyone out there is sporting a smartphone. But feature phone users have thoughts and feelings that need to be tweeted at all times, too. It’s a good thing then, that [...]
Visualized: Apple and Samsung occupy the 99 percent… of phone profits
Posted: 4th May 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: Albatross, Apple, Engadget, Feature Phone, Fri, Graphs, Horace, Htc, Losses, Maven, Mobile Phone, Motorola, Motorola Nokia, Nbsp, Profits, Rim, Samsung, Samsung Phone, Sony Ericsson, Spoils
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Financial maven and maker of beautiful graphs Horace Deidu has found that between the top eight mobile phone vendors, Apple and Samsung share 99 percent of the total spoils. Of RIM, LG, Sony (Ericsson), Motorola, Nokia and HTC, only the latter made a profit — claiming that left over one percent. The remaining six all [...]
Motorola Mobility loses $86 million in Q1, device shipments way down
Posted: 1st May 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: 1 Billion, 1 Million, 5 Million, Broadcast, Bump, Email, Engadget, Financial News, First Quarter, Home Gateways, Home Segment, Lost, Mobile Devices, Moto, Motorola, Nbsp, Q4, Smartphones, Source Link
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Well, the first quarter of 2012 is officially over Motorola Mobility, and the financial news is rather sobering for the company. While revenues were up, the climb was modest, to just $3.1 billion. And that small bump in incoming cash was not enough to stave off another quarter of loses. In fact, after losing $80 [...]