Google has bought up just over 1,000 patents from IBM to help defend itself in patent lawsuits against aspects of its smartphone technology. The company claims that a “hostile environment” for intellectual property has been created in the technology world by Apple and Microsoft. READ MORE
For those of you returning this week from vacation, you are walking in mid-drama to a lot of $h*# that hit the fan last week in the tech world. The big news this week will surely be follow up stories to the two big stories that broke last week: first, Google announced it’s buying Motorola Mobility and second, Hewlett Packard appears to be repositioning itself to be a software company instead of a hardware company. READ MORE
Fresh on the heels of Google’s announcement that it will acquire Motorola Mobility (MMI) comes, you guessed it, a lawsuit. Motorola Mobility shareholder John W. Keating filed suit against Motorola Mobility and CEO Sanjay Jha in a Chicago court and is seeking class-action status. According to Keating, the $12.5 billion offered by Google does not even come close to the company’s “intrinsic value.” READ MORE
No question: Google’s acquisition of Motorola will shake up the mobile landscape. But what exactly will the post-shakeup landscape look like? CNET‘s Marguerite Reardon has come up with five possible scenarios, some of them pretty interesting, as to how the rest of the market might respond. READ MORE
Now that the technology press have collectively picked ourselves up off the floor after Monday’s surprise announcement that Google had bought Motorola (which happened without the usual preceding weeks of rumors) analysis of the deal has begun. ZDNet’s Larry Dignan is one of the first to weigh in, noting that the deal benefits Google in six important ways. READ MORE
Google announced it plans to acquire Motorola Mobility, one of 39 manufacturers that uses the company’s Android operating system, for $12.5 billion. Google said in a Monday announcement that the acquisition will “enable Google to supercharge the Android ecosystem.” READ MORE
Remember Apple’s 1984 commercial introducing the Macintosh? Back then, Apple was about fighting conformity and subverting Big Brother. These days, though, Apple is effectively “The Man.” READ MORE
It depends how you look at it. There’s no arguing with the fact that the iPad is one of the most successful products the world has ever seen, and that Apple is literally selling them as fast as it can get them off the assembly line. READ MORE
In an apparent attempt to narrow Apple and Google’s lead in the smartphone market, Research In Motion this week announced the launch of three new touchscreen versions of its phones. They include the first touchscreen version of the Bold, a new version of the Torch slider phone, and a touchscreen-only BlackBerry. READ MORE
Good news for fans of the little green robot: According to Nielsen, as of June, Android tops the U.S. smartphone OS market, grabbing a full 39 percent market share. Apple, its closest competitor, finished a distant second at 28 percent. Bringing up the rear are BlackBerry OS at 20 percent and Windows Phone 7 at 9 percent. On the hardware front, however, Apple still managed to retain the title of top manufacturer. In all fairness, Apple’s victory in this category is relatively easy since it is the only company to produce iOS devices; meanwhile, Android’s OS finds its way to devices made by Motorola, HTC, and Samsung. RIM, the makers of Blackberry, surprisingly finished a close second to Apple in the manufacturing department, commanding a 20 percent chunk of the market. Nielsen based its results on a sample of roughly 20,000 people, all of whom are postpaid customers. Read more from TechCrunch.
