08/15/2011
AZCentral.com
The devices are remnants of outdated technology and a visionary service that began with big promise but fizzled in early 2008. They came before smartphones, iPads and 4g networks and are so 2006.
That was the year several Valley cities were touting plans for seamless municipal Wi-Fi networks where users could pay by the hour, [...]
08/15/2011
AppleInsider
Google’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility will not affect Motorola’s patent-related lawsuits against Apple, as the search company revealed on Monday it has no plans to rescind those legal complaints.
Motorola will continue to operate as a separate entity under Google, building handsets running Android as it has done before. And the company will also continue [...]
08/14/2011
Computerworld Hong Kong – Online
Intel recently said it would invest US$300 million in companies that develop new technologies for Ultrabooks, a class of thin and light laptops promoted as an alternative to tablet PCs.
The Intel Capital Ultrabook Fund will invest in companies developing hardware and software in areas such as sensors and touch, longer [...]
08/14/2011
CNET.com – New York Bureau
Google said today that it had agreed to buy Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion, adding valuable intellectual property and getting the Internet search giant directly into the handset business.
Google said it would pay $40 a share in cash for Motorola, a 63 percent premium to the company’s closing price on [...]
08/14/2011
CRMDaily.com
If the digital future pans out the way that leading banks, credit card issuers, wireless carriers and tech companies hope, scenarios like this could become common.
Folks rarely leave home without their keys, wallets and cell phones. The thinking behind the next advancement in mobile payments — and it’s likely to take years before this [...]
08/15/2011
All Things Digital
With the entry of Google into the handset-making market, the search giant has just declared a number of things, most especially that its own future is all about mobile.
With the $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola, the struggling but iconic maker of mobile phones and tablets, Google has put a huge stake in [...]
08/12/2011
Light Reading
Reston, Va.-based LightSquared revealed Thursday that it has sent a new letter to the FCC blaming the GPS industry for the fact that GPS interference is even happening in the first place:
“Had the GPS industry complied with DoD’s [Department of Defense] recommended filtering standards for GPS receivers, there would be no issue with [...]
08/12/2011
Bloomberg BusinessWeek
For decades, measuring progress in semiconductors was easy. Every year the chips got faster and the industry moved forward. Speed matters far less these days. Phones, cars, and other everyday objects are becoming computers, and the chips in them need to run graphics, operate radios, and browse the Web, all while using as little [...]
08/11/2011
IDG News Service – New York Bureau
IDG News Service – Tablet users may need more storage capacity in the future, and Samsung Semiconductor on Thursday announced it is now making its fastest solid-state drives for tablets and laptops with capacity of up to 512GB.
The PM830 SSD offers throughput to transfer movies at faster speeds [...]
08/11/2011
Reuters
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Apple Inc’s increasingly effective patent war against rivals like Samsung Electronics may mask its real target: arch-foe Google Inc.
The maker of the iPad and iPhone has sued three of the largest manufacturers of Google’s Android-based devices — Samsung, Motorola and HTC — for multiple patent infringements across multiple countries, pointing [...]
