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Google mourns Steve Jobs on homepage
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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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 stores to be [...]
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 [...]
Continue reading...Google acquires Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion
Monday, August 15, 2011
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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. [...]
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Thursday, October 6, 2011
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