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Tweet Google-Motorola Purchase May Help Defrag Android Why is Google buying Motorola? Could be for the 17,000 patents or a number of other reasons. Gartner VP Michael Disabato thinks the Google-Motorola buy is tied to setting direction for the Android operating system. “I think one of the reasons Google wants Motorola is because they have [...]

Tweet Vita OS could be ported to Sony tablets and smartphones Having already backed out of the joint mobile phone venture with Sony Ericsson, Sony may also leave Android behind by using a version of the PlayStation Vita operating system to run future smartphones and tablets. In a Q&A session in Japan, Sony CEO Kazuo [...]

Tweet Google, Motorola must capitalize on regulatory win to battle Apple’s iPad The US Department of Justice and European Commission have okayed Google’s planned $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility. Now the two have to work together — and fast — to being Android 4.0 to Motorola’s Xoom and XyBoard and whatever other Android tablet [...]

Tweet HTC Rezound to get updated to ICS later this year As early as November last year, we already heard that the HTC Rezound will get the update to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, the latest iteration of Google’s mobile operating system, sometime this year but no specific date was mentioned. With the recent announcement [...]

Tweet Chrome 17 Goes Stable With Faster, Safer Browsing Google Chrome 17 goes stable for Windows, Mac and Linux. The company paid out $10,000 for bug fixes as well and made the browser faster and more secure. Google Feb. 8 pushed Chrome 17 into the stable channel for Windows, Mac and Linux, paying out $10,500 [...]