Smartphones are the latest trend in technology. To someone from the 1950s, smartphones and the capabilities of today’s wireless devices would seem not less than magic and that was roughly 60 years ago. Technology for the last two generations has advanced with leaps and bounds. The smartphone owes its existence to mobile phones which in turn originated from radio controlled phones which in turn owe...

As technology continues to evolve every year, we see companies launching products with newer technologies incorporated in them. The R&D that goes into developing the new technologies can be prohibitively high, which forces companies to patent the technology. This way if anyone else wants to use it, they must pay them a license fee to help recover the cost. In principle, this seems like a good idea....

It has not been long since Apple won a mammoth lawsuit against the Korean smartphone giant Samsung. It was the start of the “thermonuclear war” Steve Jobs was talking about. It was the start of Apple trying to eliminate the biggest market threat, Android, which Jobs claimed was a “stolen product” and Tim Cook religiously followed the doctrine. Somewhere in the midst of the Apple Samsung...

Motorola Mobility appears to be withdrawing from India. The company has already decided that it would not bring additional handsets to the country. However, this is not the only reason to draw the conclusion. Motorola has even put up its Research & Development Center for sale. It had setup an extensive R&D Department in Hyderabad exactly 2 years back in August 2010. The R&D Center was...

In an astonishing development, Yahoo!, has demanded licensing fees from Facebook for use of its patented technologies. In what could only be perceived as first-blow, Yahoo! has staked financial claims for the technologies that FaceBook currently uses in advertisements, privacy controls, news feed and messaging service. Though exact figures are not currently available, representatives of the two companies...

Motorola Mobility’s supposedly last Quarterly Results before it is amalgamated in the Search Giant Google are in Red. Motorola, true to it’s word about a bleak last quarter posted a operating loss of US$ 70 Million. In a nutshell Motorola lost a small fortune to the tune of US$ 285 Million in the last year. Industry speculation were rife with this bleak news & are still worried about Google’s...

Some days back we heard that Apple had won the hearing against one of its premier competitor HTC over 1 patent that Apple claims that the Taiwanese company infringed upon. HTC has now begun testing technology which will not infringe on Apple’s patents and they seem confident that this ruling won’t bring them down. HTC, however won’t have to go through these troubled times alone. They have banked...

Yesterday, Intel, the largest semiconductor chip manufacturer, joined hands with Google to develop and promote new Intel Atom chips powering Android smartphones. This development partnership marks Intel’s entry into the booming smartphone market. The partnership entails both companies to work on optimizing future versions of the Android Operating System to work on Intel’s x-86 based Atom...

Google & Motorola have announced that Google (GOOG) will be acquiring Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. (MMI). A definitive agreement has been reached and the details are as follows: Google will acquire Motorola at a premium of 63% over Motorola Mobility shares as on Friday, August 12th. This means that Google will pay $40.00 per share in cash, amounting to $12.5 billion. This news was received...

comScore has released the result of the survey, which was taken by more than 30,000 people, on key trends in the US mobile phone industry  during the three month average period ending June 2011. It declares Google’s Android as the clear winner in the smartphone market with 40 % share, a 5.4 % increase from March 2011 Apple’s iOS takes the second position with 26.6 %. RIM’s BlackBerry saw...