Motorola Mobility LLC, owned by Google, will stop manufacturing products in China and Brazil. The company announced that it has signed a definitive agreement with Singapore-based Flextronics which will acquire Motorola's manufacturing operations in Tianjin, China and assume the management and operation of its facility in...
As we head into the holiday season, I thought it would be good to look back on five key themes that framed a momentous year. These events are really in no particular order, but we grouped them into themes to keep this week’s column true to its name.
Now that December is here and the Google Nexus 4 still isn't, it's becoming clear that the smartphone sitting atop many Christmas lists will not be under the tree. According to Google's website, the Nexus 4 will not ship for another 5-6 weeks, and...
The three leaders in mobile payments all have very different business models. Analysts say there is room for several players in this fast-growing ecosystem.
They say bad news comes in threes, and if that's true then wireless carriers have reached their quota of bad news from Google this week. First, the search engine giant launched its Nexus 4 smartphone, selling out of the GSM/HSPA+ device in one day...
Google Fiber connected its first set of homes yesterday in the Hanover Heights section of Kansas City. The ultra high-speed network claims that it offers speeds of up to 1 Gigabit per second. So far there are no reports that those speeds have actually...
After selling out within hours of its UK launch, Google's no-contract Nexus 4 hits the Google Play store in the US today. The GSM/HSPA+ phone is sold unlocked for $299 ($349 for the 16GB version). Although it's called the Nexus 4, its display is...
President Obama probably used his iPad to post the most popular tweet in history Tuesday night. The fact that the President is stepping out with an iPad instead of his BlackBerry is a coup for Apple, but like the President the Cupertino company has...
Even before its newest slate of mobile devices hit the market, Google's Android operating system was winning the smartphone war. IDC says Android had a 75% market share in the third quarter, versus just 15% for iOS and 10% for all others (Windows Phone...
Google may be giving a new meaning to the phrase "over-the-top" with the launch of its newest line of Nexus devices. The Nexus 4 is an unlocked smartphone powered by Qualcomm's top-of-the-line 1.5 GHz quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro and running Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean.)...
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Much was said in September this year about the arrest of Fábio Coelho, Google Brazil's CEO. To understand his arrest,...
While Microsoft was busy unveiling its new Windows 8 operating system and Surface tablet today, Google's new Nexus 10 tablet surfaced a little earlier than planned. Today a Korean website posted two photos of a what appears to be the user manual for the...
It was not an easy quarter for Microsoft and Google. The two giant companies both presented their results for the quarter ending Sept. 30.
The acquisition of Motorola Mobility pushed down Google’s results, since Motorola Mobility posted an operating loss of $527 million in its...
A milestone for financial markets: at the close of trading in New York on Monday, Google (GOOG) was the world’s second-largest technology company based on its market capitalization, temporarily stealing that honor from Microsoft (MSFT).
Both companies are worth just under $250 billion, although Microsoft...
The president of Google Brazil, Fabio Coelho, was arrested and later released on September 26, for not removing two videos from YouTube that allegedly contain slander and defamed a mayoral candidate in Campo Grande, Alcides Bernal (PP).
The detention followed a Mato Grosso do Sul...
I have just finished a second view (the total event was about two hours long), and quite frankly was both amazed and disappointed in the session. Amazed at what Apple has been able to accomplish in the past two years
By now, just about anyone who follows technology knows that on Aug. 24, nine jurors in California voted in favor of Apple with the largest patent lawsuit victory
Cloud computing services have transformed how enterprises buy technology and even how chief information officers (CIOs) deal with corporate demands. In Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, cloud computing (in general) appears to be past the peak of inflated expectations, although in many countries,...
April 20 marked the one-year anniversary of the so-called “location-gate” controversy in which it was first revealed that Apple (and soon after Google) were tracking subscriber location information and storing that data
Google reported today in a government filing that it plans to cut 4,000 jobs, or about 20% of Motorola Mobility’s workforce in an attempt to streamline operations and “shifting the emphasis from feature phones to more innovative and profitable devices.”
The company, which acquired Motorola...
