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Judge rules that employee-poaching lawsuit against Google, Apple and others can continue
In the high-tech bubble that is Silicon Valley, engineering talent is king, and the battle for that talent is often fierce. Indeed, Steve Jobs was so paranoid about other companies stealing his employees that the “About This Mac” option on the Apple menu bar – which used to list the names of employees involved in the [...]
Continue reading...Safari owns over 50% of mobile browser marketshare
Friday, January 6, 2012
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Google views the smartphone market as nothing more than a numbers game. Getting Android handsets into as many hands as possible is their ultimate goal, and while they like to tout impressive numbers like 700,000 daily activations, the reality is that Android users are less likely to purchase apps than their iPhone counterparts and that [...]
Continue reading...Andy Rubin tweets: 3.7 million Android activations in two days
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
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Google’s Android head Andy Rubin tweeted just a few minutes ago that the number of Android activations on December 24th and 25th came in at 3.7 million. An impressive figure to be sure, but as we’ll explain in a post shortly, Apple also did quite well over the Christmas holiday as iOS activations this past [...]
Continue reading...Google Music Store finally becomes a reality
Monday, November 21, 2011
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By Luis Estrada: Well after years of haggling with record companies, Google last week finally unveiled its new Android-centric Google Music service and to say that it borrows a lot from iTunes would be quite an understatement. But hey, if the model works, why change it. Like iTunes, songs on Google Music will be available [...]
Continue reading...Eric Schmidt dismisses claims that Android ripped off the iPhone
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
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By Josh Rosenthall: In his biography, Steve Jobs minced no words when it came to Android. Jobs vowed to spend every last penny in Apple’s coffers to destroy Android, claiming that it was a copycat product that unabashedly stole Apple’s IP. “I will spend my last dying breath if I need to…to right this wrong. [...]
Continue reading...Eric Schmidt touts competitive threat of Siri in letter to US Sentate antitrust subcommittee
Monday, November 7, 2011
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By Josh Rosenthall: Google may try hard to uphold their ”Don’t be Evil” mantra, but the search giant apparently has no qualms about being hypocritical. We saw this first hand a few months back when Google made a number of public statements about the sorry state of the patent system and how companies like Apple and [...]
Continue reading...Google set to release native Gmail app for the iPhone – Rumor
Monday, October 31, 2011
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By David Goldman: MG Siegler writes that Google either already has or is on the verge of submitting a native Gmail app for acceptance into the iTunes App Store. Now why in the world would I need a native Gmail app you might be wondering. After all, the web-based version of Gmail is pretty slick [...]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs’ advice to Larry Page
Saturday, October 22, 2011
By Josh Rosenthall: Steve Jobs’ hatred for Android can’t be overstated. In a recently released excerpt, the Apple co-founder vowed to destroy Android and told biographer Walter Isaacson he’d spend his last dying breath trying to right what Jobs considered to be Google’s grand theft of Apple’s iOS. Nevertheless, Jobs appeared to have mended fences [...]
Continue reading...Eric Schmidt praises Steve Jobs – “He was always ahead of me”
Monday, October 17, 2011
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By Josh Rosenthall: Erick Schmidt and Steve Jobs have had their squabbles over the years, most famously when Jobs felt Schmidt stabbed him and Apple in the back with their plans for Android. You might remember that Schmidt at one point was a board member at Apple before resigning in 2009 citing a conflict of [...]
Continue reading...Samsung and Google delay Galaxy Nexus announcement out of respect for Steve Jobs
Friday, October 7, 2011
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By Sarah Petit: Samsung and Google were all set to unveil the new Galaxy Nexus and Android Ice Cream Sandwich update at CTIA San Diego next Tuesday. Yesterday, however, those plans were axed. When one developer asked why, they received a message back from Samsung stating: “Samsung and Google decide to postpone the new product [...]
Continue reading...Google mourns Steve Jobs on homepage
Thursday, October 6, 2011
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Google is notoriously strict about what it puts on its homepage, which is why it’s incredibly telling and symbolic that the search-giant put a link to Apple’s website on the bottom of their own homepage. It’s nice to see Google pay tribute to Jobs on their homepage, one of the most trafficked sites on the [...]
Continue reading...Google opens up Chromebook retail store in London
Saturday, October 1, 2011
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By John Hiesler: Et tu, Google? Apple’s retail initiative was a stroke of genius and it’s no wonder that other companies have tried to emulate Apple’s retail success. First there was Microsoft whose own line of retail stores are, not too surprisingly, eerily similar to Apple’s. What’s more, Microsoft is seemingly positioning its own retail [...]
Continue reading...2/3 of mobile Google searches originate from iOS devices
Thursday, September 22, 2011
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It’s never pretty when Congress tries to wrap its head around technology, a fact which was quite evident when Apple and Google were grilled over issues related to location tracking just a few months ago. This week, Google chairman Eric Schmidt appeared before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights to [...]
Continue reading...HTC paid for the patents it acquired from Google and why they’re hypocrites
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
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This past week, HTC filed a lawsuit against Apple for patent infringement using a number of patents HTC acquired from Google, some of which, not surprisingly, were previously assigned to Motorola.
Continue reading...Microsoft was also contemplating Motorola acquisition before Google swooped in
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
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As the reverberations from Google’s acquisition of Motorola have started to simmer down, Om Malik of Gigaom writes that Motorola was keen on selling and that Google wasn’t the only interested suitor. Microsoft was also interested in purchasing Motorola and acquisition discussions between the two companies had reportedly been ongoing for some time. Driving Microsoft’s [...]
Continue reading...Will Google’s Motorola acquisition be a success?
Monday, August 15, 2011
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There’s so much fallout from Google’s Motorola announcement today that it’s hard to even know where to begin. While Google certainly strengthens its patent portfolio, the acquisition clearly raises a number of important questions. First, how will Google’s other Android partners react? After all, they’re now competing with Google in the hardware market. Publicly at [...]
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Wednesday, February 1, 2012
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