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SEC Filing Reveals How Motorola Had Google Over a Barrel
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-09-14
Nothing like an SEC filing to shed light on the ins-and-outs of deals.
Motorola Mobility, which is in the process of being acquired by Google for $12.5 billion, filed a proxy statement explaining how the bid went down, including how Motorola got the search engine giant to sweeten the
There's Room for More Than Apple, Google in Mobile
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-09-13
One of the regular memes has Apple iOS and Google's Android mobile operating systems as the only platforms that matter in mobile. With some 70 percent of the market combined worldwide, it's an easy case to make. But that's the near-term view.
The long view could paint a
Netflix App Hums on Motorola Droid Bionic
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-09-12
Great news, Netflix/Android phone owners!
Netflix, which has fought to navigate the rough waters of security and digital rights management to put its service on more Android phones,
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Google Zagat Buy Provides More Antitrust Fodder
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-09-09
Amazing. Google acquired Zagat, a niche content company nearly as old as myself whose little red pocket-sized booklets of restaurant reviews I can remember devouring 15 years ago. What's so amazing about this? It's a consolidation of workflow tools. Google, which makes easily a dozen or
Google's Objectivity With Motorola Comes Under Fire
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-09-08
For several months, pundits and folks with grudges versus Google's Android operating system have speculated that the provider of the world's leading smartphone platform has a heavier hand in the release of its platform to open source than it led us to believe. Google didn't do
Is the Android Update Alliance Working Yet?
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-09-07
At Google I/O back in May, executives for Google's Android platform proudly announced they were working on a way to provide regular platform updates for Android smartphones for 18 months -- when the hardware makes it possible. Android Product Manager Hugo Barra said the group was formed to
Does it Matter for Google if Motorola's Patents Suck?
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-09-06
While there's no question Google's bid for Motorola was predicated on the company's huge intellectual property war chest of 17,000 patents (7,500 pending), some say the phone
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Apple TV Looking More Likely to Challenge Google TV?
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-09-05
Even pundits who formerly thought Apple Television -- as in a fully integrated box with a Web browser that flings content across iPhone's, iPod touches and iPads, as well as Macs -- was hopeless are beginning to warm to the idea the company Steve Jobs reinvigorated has to try
Google Offers Debuts on Home Page
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-09-02
Google.com is touting Google Offers to reach the masses, adding another house ad to its repertoire on its most important piece of real estate.
Google +1 Button Rolls Out as Chrome Extension
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-09-01
Google has taken its +1 button to the consumer masses, allowing users to install the +1 Chrome extension to begin +1ing favorite Web pages and sites right from their browser. Sundar Pichai, senior vice president of Chrome, posted a link to the +1 button extension from the Chrome
Eric Schmidt Waxes Bullish on Google TV Ahead of Europe Launch
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-08-31
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt held forth on many things at the MacTaggart lecture to the Edinburgh International TV Festival August 26, including a session in which he regaled reporters with tales of Google TV. While he acknowledged that Google TV is still a beta product
James Gosling, Google Hardly Knew Ye
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-08-30
Java Founder James Gosling has left Google, where he was definitely not helping the search engine with its patent infringement case versus Oracle.
A Google spokesperson told me: We thank James for his contributions to Google and the technology industry at large. We wish him all the best
Google+ is an Identity Service, Stupid
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-08-29
NPR's Andy Carvin scored a fascinating question-and-answer bout with former Google CEO and current Executive Chairman, who spoke at the Edinburgh International TV Festival April 28. Carvin asked
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Google Voice Search Comes to Google Maps
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-08-26
Google Chrome is the most voice-enabled browser in the free world, as the company propelling it continues to weave voice throughout its core applications via Chrome. The search engine Aug. 25 switched on the ability to let users speak search queries into their computer microphone to look for
Apple, Google CEO Turns Aren't the End of Eras
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-08-25
There is a lot being written about Apple CEO Steve Jobs' stepping down from the company he built, was subsequently exiled from, and restored to fairy-tale-like glory. Prodigal son, indeed. I'm going to leave the eloquent waxing about Jobs, who is sadly ceding the reins to COO Tim
