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Google acquires Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion
Wow. Shit just got real. In what is easily Google’s biggest acquisition in its history, Google today said it will acquire phone hardware maker Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion in cash to help enhance sales of its Android mobile OS. All told, Google payed $40 a share for Motorola Mobility, representing a 63% premium for [...]
Continue reading...Internal Google emails reveal brazen attitude regarding Java licensing and Android
Saturday, August 13, 2011
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If you haven’t been paying attention to every Android-related lawsuit, who can blame you? With upwards of 50 separate cases currently in play, it’s decidedly challenging, if not impossible, to keep tabs on every single case. But one of the more important cases is Oracle’s suit against Google for including copyrightable java code in Android [...]
Continue reading...Google claims Microsoft’s re-telling of Novell patent purchase is a diversion tactic
Sunday, August 7, 2011
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There’s a bona fide soap opera drama going on between Microsoft and Google at the moment and we can’t get enough. Here’s a brief recap. This past week, Google’s top lawyer David Drummond lambasted the patent system on the whole and accused companies like Microsoft and Apple of conspiring together to keep “bogus” patents out [...]
Continue reading...Microsoft calls out Google for their hypocritical stance on patents
Thursday, August 4, 2011
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Google Chief Legal Officer David Drummond kicked up a storm of controversy yesterday with a blog post where he lambasted companies like Microsoft and Apple for attacking Android via the courtroom as opposed to focusing on innovation. The entire thing is boldly hypocritical, but especially when he accuses Microsoft and Apple of colluding together to [...]
Continue reading...Google’s Chief Legal Officer David Drummond rails against patent attacks from Apple and co.
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
David Drummond, Google’s Chief Legal Officer, wrote on Google’s official blog today that companies like Oracle, Microsoft, and Apple are fighting against Android because they prefer litigation to innovation and are attempting to throttle Android’s growth. Android is on fire. More than 550,000 Android devices are activated every day, through a network of 39 manufacturers [...]
Continue reading...Android defense? Google purchases 1,030 patents from IBM
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
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When it comes to Intellectual Property, Google often tends to speak out of both sides of its mouth. It favors innovation and a few of its executives have even publicly lambasted the US patent system, but all the while, Google’s very existence and continued success is based on an ever-so-important patent for its search algorithm. [...]
Continue reading...Circles on Google+ is more of a chore than a feature
Thursday, July 28, 2011
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Not too long ago, Google+ came in like a whirlwind and quickly, not to mention inexplicably, became the darling of the tech collective. At last, people opined, not only a Facebook competitor, but a social network that’s actually superior to Facebook! The root of the rave reviews regarding Google+ centered on a new feature it [...]
Continue reading...Google Books removed from iTunes App Store for TOS violations – Report
Monday, July 25, 2011
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For some reason, Google Books appears to have been wholly removed from the iTunes App Store. First observed by 9to5Mac, they theorized that it might have been a temporary glitch, but it’s now been quite a few days and still no sign of the app. Users attempting to access the Google Books app page are [...]
Continue reading...Google Labs on the way out, though Google’s 20% time will remain intact
Sunday, July 24, 2011
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Google Labs for some time now has been an interesting place to see what type of side projects Googlers were up to. But in an effort to focus more on delivering finished made products, Google announced earlier this week that they’re shutting down Google Labs. In many cases, this will mean ending Labs experiments—in others [...]
Continue reading...When Google outhustled Microsoft to sign an ad deal with MySpace
Sunday, July 24, 2011
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You don’t hear about MySpace much these days, which is sort of interesting given that it used to be the ish back in the day. But as we all know, Mark Zuckerberg smoothly positioned Facebook as the social network of choice, subsequently usurping MySpace’s influence in the process. But way back when MySpace was still [...]
Continue reading...Oracle set to depose Larry Page
Friday, July 22, 2011
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We haven’t commented too much on the ongoing litigation between Oracle and Google, but suffice it to say that Google seems to be in dire straights. While it may be slightly too early to say, it appears that Google willfully infringed Java patents owned by Oracle, a fact which may ultimately force Google to pay [...]
Continue reading...Why Google+ has no long term traction and why Circles is not THAT useful
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
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I’ve had a lot of back and forth with friends concerning the prospects of Google+. Put simply, I don’t think it poses much of a threat to Facebook. What Google has on its side is the ability to leverage its search engine and email prowess to really increase the number of Google+ users while at [...]
Continue reading...Google, shame on you for helping people get even drunker!
Thursday, July 14, 2011
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By Josh Rosenthall: Check out the potential for grave repercussions from Google’s search suggest feature. Looks like it’s a little bit too accurate for it’s own good! via imgur
Continue reading...Eric Schmidt smugly wary of Apple’s involvement in Nortel patent acquisition
Monday, July 11, 2011
Less than two weeks ago, Apple was part of a consortioum of tech companies who acquired over 6,000 patents from Nortel. Together with EMC, Ericsson, Microsoft, RIM, and Sony, the winning bid was $4.5 billion. Lost in the shuffle, notably, was Google whose bids reached up into the billions but couldn’t compete with the combined [...]
Continue reading...Behind the scenes of the Nortell patent auction – Google bids Pi as Apple and Microsoft seek to weaken Android
Saturday, July 2, 2011
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Earlier this week, Apple was part of a consortium of tech heavyweights that won an auction for over 6,000 Nortel patents. The final and winning bid came in at $4.5 billion and came from a grouping of Apple, EMC, Ericsson, Microsoft, RIM, and Sony. Left outside in the cold were both Intel and Google. Interestingly [...]
Continue reading...Open letter to RIM from anonymous executive highlight’s RIM’s troubles
Friday, July 1, 2011
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Yesterday BGR posted a scathing letter to RIM’s senior management team from an anonymous RIM executive highlighting the companies many inefficiencies and explaining the fundamental problems the company faces in its attempts to stave off ever more threatening competition from the likes of Google and Apple. A few excerpts: We are in the middle of [...]
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Monday, August 15, 2011
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