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Samsung may buy firms to counter Google-Motorola deal
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Samsung is worried enough that Google's buyout of Motorola might put more control back in the hands of the OS maker that it may buy out companies to compete, according to leaked details from an emergency corporate meeting. Company chair Lee Kun-hee reportedly urged management to improve its software engineer ranks to the point where buying companies might be needed. The Korean executive cast it as a fundamental shift of power in Android that Samsung had to resist, Yonhap said.
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Google pays Motorola $2.5 billion if purchase falls through
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According to sources reporting to Bloomberg, Google will have to pay Motorola $2.5 billion if its proposed purchase does not get approved and completed. The $2.5 billion break-up fee is six times the usual amount, and is a full 20 percent of the $12.5 billion purchase price that Google announced yesterday.
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Swype and Sprint Giving Nexus S Owners an Exclusive
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Swype and Sprint today announced that owners of the Samsung Nexus S will be the first to have access to a new version of Swype's Android keyboard starting today. In addition to a newly revised version of the Swype keyboard, the update includes a custom skin, tap correction, horizontal word choice list, personal dictionary management, and shortcut gestures to perform actions such as select all, or launch Google Maps or Twitter. This version of Swype is only for the Sprint Nexus S, though Swype will offer a beta version to other Android handsets soon.
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Firefox for Android updated with refreshed interface, new developer tools
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Mozilla has released a new version of its Firefox browser for Android smartphones and tablets today that offers a new visual refresh for those that have Android 2.3 Gingerbread, as well as a number of new tools for developers to create better web experiences.
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Google catalogs gets announced; brings digital catalogs to your tablet
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Shopaholics, rejoice! Google has unveiled a nice treat for you that will make your habit of spending money even more enjoyable. Introducing Google catalogs – the service that lets you easily get and browse catalogs issued by a number of brands spanning over various categories, and all the goodness is delivered to you in a convenient, digital form.
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Verizon outs an Andriod 2.3 bug fix via update for the Droid X
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Verizon Wireless has just released a small update for the original Motorola Droid X that will fix any bugs that users of the device may have experienced since having their software updated to Android 2.3 Gingerbread.
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Google CEO Larry Page explains reasoning behind Motorola acquisition
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In a post penned by Larry Page on Google’s company blog, the CEO explains why Google decided to shell out $12.5 billion to purchase smartphone vendor Motorola Mobility. While Page had plenty to say about Motorola’s extensive history and its leading role in Android’s explosive growth, he also points to what many believe to be one of the leading factors behind the deal: patents. “We recently explained how companies including Microsoft and Apple are banding together in anti-competitive patent attacks on Android,” the CEO wrote on Google’s blog. “The U.S. Department of Justice had to intervene in the results of one recent patent auction to ‘protect competition and innovation in the open source s...
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Mystery Android Vulnerability Not Detailed By Prudent Hackers
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Riley Hassell and Shane Macaulay were all set to go on stage at Black Hat and describe a few methods of hacking Android devices. But they never appeared: at the last minute, they decided not to reveal the vulnerabilities they had discovered. Why? “To prevent an unacceptable window of risk to consumers worldwide and to guarantee credit where it was due.”
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Android steals 20% of tablet market from iPad over past year
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Android-powered tablets have taken 20% of the global tablet market from Apple’s iPad over the past 12 months according to new data from ABI Research. While Android tablets have collectively managed to make a sizable dent in the iPad’s global market share, ABI says no single tablet vendor has managed to “mount a significant challenge” against the iPad at this point.
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Google to acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion
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Google and Motorola Mobility have announced an agreement whereby Google will acquire Motorola for $12.5 billion. The acquisition price equates to $40 per share of Motorola stock, or a premium of 63% over Friday’s closing price. The move is considered to be an effort that will better-align Google to compete with Apple’s iPhone, which owned two-thirds of profits among the world’s top-8 smartphone vendors in the second quarter. A Google-owned hardware arm will be able to hold complete control over device hardware, software and services, resulting in an end-to-end user experience that is completely under Google’s control. “Motorola Mobility’s total commitment to Android has created a natural fit...
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Sony slashes Google TV prices
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The signs that Google TV may not quite be the living room revolution that the bods over in Mountain View hoped it would be continue apace, with Sony again slashing the prices of its Google TV kit.
At the end of July we told you how Logitech had severely cut the price of its Revue Google TV set top box to $99 to "remove price as a barrier to broad customer acceptance" - a device launched only 9 months prior at cost of $299.99.
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Google Updates Gmail and Docs for all users
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The fine folks at Google have announced today their newest set of updates for the popular mail and cloud-based document editors Gmail and Google Docs. In these updates you’ll find several innovations brought to you straight from what once was Google Labs and has now been split into teams: Gmail Labs and a series of groups working on Docs. Two of Google’s most popular web-based applications have just gotten better – let’s check out how!
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Google's Real Names Policy Is Evil
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Google's horrible new policy on using real names in Google+ effectively means that the service is now a danger to real people. You have to ask yourself why a company that pledged to not be evil would do this.
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Symantec Releases Free Security Software for Android
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Symantec, well known for its extensive lineup of security products on both the Windows and Mac platforms, today released Norton Mobile Security Lite, a freeware security product aimed at devices running Google's Android OS.
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Does Google's Patent for Shipping Notifications Mean They Have UPS, FedEx and USPS by the Balls?
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Patents related to shipping logistics normally aren't the concern of the public. But when Google receives a patent for electronic shipping notifications, one has to wonder what that means for online merchants, like Amazon, and major shipping companies, like UPS.
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