Articles tagged with: Google and Motorola

Google Acquisition Has Potential to Revitalize Flagging Motorola

google's Android operating system continued to dominate USA smartphone market share, accounting for 52 percent of units sold to consumers (excluding business users) in the second quarter of 2011, concludes a report from The NPD Group. more

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Google Seeking Sanctions Against Microsoft

google is seeking sanctions against Microsoft after it claims that Microsoft released its confidential computer source code to an outside person without prior authorisation. more

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Apple Takes Second Place Among US Smartphone Platforms

The latest comScore study surveyed more than 30,000 USA mobile subscribers and has again found Samsung to be the top handset manufacturer overall with 24.5 percent market share. google Android led among smartphone platforms with 36.4 percent market share. more

Related Tags: samsung, apple-iphone, nokia, rim, android, usa, USA

Skyhook Sues Google over Location Services in Motorola's Android Phones

Location services provider, Skyhook Wireless is suing google, claiming that the search engine giant is infringing its patents. In a complaint filed with a federal court in Massachusetts, USA, the company also alleges that google caused it to lose a valuable partnership by unfairly having Motorola include google's competing technology in its mobile phones. more

Related Tags: skyhook-wireless, wi-fi, android, location-based-services, wireless, os, court,

NTP Sues Apple, Google, HTC, LG, Microsoft and Motorola Over Wireless Email Patents

NTP, the company that took US$612 million from Reaearch in Motion over a long winded patent lawsuit has now fired off a salvo of lawsuits against Apple, google, HTC, LG, Microsoft and Motorola. The lawsuit relates to a claimed infringement of eight patents related to the delivery of electronic mail over wireless communications systems. more

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Verizon says iPhone challenger goes on sale Nov. 6

Verizon Wireless will start selling its answer to the iPhone - the Droid - for $200 next week as the company taps into the growing appetite for smart phones that go far beyond making calls. more

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Industry Big Guns with no Bullets to Fire

After a devastating end to 2008, the future is looking bleak. At the start of 2009 the mobile industry is starting to implement strategic job cuts and closing of overseas offices. This is just the beginning. The New Year started with Nortel Networks filing for Chapter 11. Many companies are not far behind. The question remains: how will some of the largest blue chip companies fare this year? Based on recent findings, Frost & Sullivan expects several firms to have a tough time fighting this year's projected internal and external challenges. more

Tech Firms to Develop Guidelines for White Spaces Database

Seven technology companies have announced that they are working together to facilitate the timely creation and operation of a white spaces database to govern use of the USA's vacant television broadband spectrum, commonly known as TV white spaces. more

Chinese Man Killed by Exploding Mobile Phone

..ed by the eye-witness. On the web: Hexun more

Related Tags: battery, batteries, gansu, China

Dell Smartphone Rumours Resurface

The persistent rumours that computer maker, Dell is preparing to launch a range of mobile phones got another boost when it was reported that the firm could launch its first handsets next month. A report in the Wall Street Journal said that Dell has had a group of engineers working on the phones for more than a year from an office in the Chicago area. more

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