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Just how good a defence are those Motorola patents, again?

August 22, 2011

Susan Decker for Bloomberg: Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), the world’s largest software maker, began arguing its U.S. trade case that Android- based smartphones made by Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. use technology derived from Microsoft inventions. In a trial that began today before the International Trade Commission in Washington, Microsoft accused Motorola Mobility of infringing seven of [...]

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Apple smartphone growth puts competition in the shade

May 3, 2010

Canalys has released its smartphone market share figures for Q1 2010, and the big winners are undoubtedly Apple, HTC and Motorola, all of which posted treble-digit growth in unit shipments compared to the equivalent quarter of 2009. To put that into a little context: Apple’s worldwide market share increased by 4.4%. This increase is almost [...]

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Idiot post of the day (The Return of TechCrunch edition)

January 6, 2010

OK, I wasn’t going to do this. Even I had got bored. But MG Siegler’s post on how “Apple and Google just tag teamed the US Carriers” is just breathtakingly stupid. MG, I know that you’re desperate to justify your earlier breathless hyping of the Nexus One, but seriously – contradicting yourself in the same [...]

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2009: The year tech blogging died

December 22, 2009

Most years are full of idiocy. But I think I can make a decent case for this year being the worst on record, at least from the perspective of writing about technology. This was the year when tech writing plumbed new depths of stupidity, repetition, and sheer unadulterated circle jerking. It was the year when [...]

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Stewart Alsop says dumb things, get attention

November 30, 2009

Image via CrunchBase Stewart Alsop is having many problems with his Motorola Droid: “The software (Google’s Android plus apps both from Google and from other developers) doesn’t work and is unacceptable on a mobile device.” Only thing is that these are problems that it appears no other Droid users are having – blatant, massive issues [...]

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Motorola sues Apple executive over trade secrets

July 19, 2008

Bloomberg.com: Technology: “Motorola Inc., the largest U.S. mobile-phone maker, sued a former executive now working for Apple Inc., accusing him of disclosing its trade secrets to aid in the marketing of Apple’s iPhone. Michael Fenger in March ended an almost six-year career at Motorola where he was a vice president for the company’s mobile- device [...]

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