T-Mobile has decided to pull the plug on its Sidekick 4G smartphone and is, for now, putting the Sidekick line of smartphones on hold until further notice. Our friends at The Verge reached out to the carrier and were told "While the T-Mobile Sidekick 4G is being retired, it doesn't mean we are discontinuing the T-Mobile Sidekick line. T-Mobile continues ...
A judge has ordered Google and Motorola to deliver information concerning how the Android operating system was developed to Apple. The two companies must also give Apple information about Google's planned acquisition of Motorola. The cases relating to this action hail from 2010, when Apple sued Motorola over smartphone patents. Motorola counter-sued. ...
Microsoft has filed a lawsuit with the European Commission against Motorola, claiming that the company is not offering licenses to standard essential patents at fair and reasonable rates. Microsoft is specifically calling out the licensing fees Motorola wants for 50 patents related to H.264 mobile video playback, which Microsoft claims are 1,000 times ...
Apple has requested that the European Commission intervene and help settle its standards-essential patent dispute with Motorola. In a regulatory filing Motorola said, "On February 17, the company received a letter from the European Commission notifying it that the Commission has received a complaint against Motorola Mobility by Apple regarding the enforcement ...
The European Commission has approved Google's proposed $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility. "This is an important milestone in the approval process and it moves us closer to closing the deal," said Google in a statement. "We are now just waiting for decisions from a few other jurisdictions before we can close this transaction. As we outlined ...
Today the U.S. Justice Department approved Google's proposed $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility. However, the regulatory body said it would not hesitate to take action if it feels standard essential patents are not licensed fairly. Earlier today, the European Commission also approved the deal. It still has to clear hurdles in several other ...
According to sources reporting to Reuters, the U.S. Department of Justice is set to announce its approval of search giant Google's purchase of smartphone and tablet manufacturer Motorola Mobility. Google is purchasing Motorola in an effort to secure its patent portfolio in order to bolster defense of Google's Android operating system from the patent ...
Motorola executive Christy Wyatt said that it's not the company's software customizations that delay system updates, rather, it's the hardware. Speaking to media at an event in New York, Wyatt explained, "When Google does a release of the software ... they do a version of the software for whatever phone they just shipped. The rest of the ecosystem doesn't ...
Verizon Wireless today announced that it is pushing system updates to the Motorola Droid Bionic, RAZR, and RAZR MAXX. The updates improve performance, fix bugs, and add Verizon-branded apps/services. Users can download the updates over the air.
Motorola takes its fourth shot at the Droid that started it all with the Droid 4. For the QWERTY keyboard seeker, there's a lot to like about this LTE 4G smartphone for Verizon Wireless.
Apple has filed a new lawsuit against Motorola over a patent license agreement that exists between Motorola and Qualcomm. Specifically, Apple argues that since it is now a Qualcomm customer, it is a "third-party beneficiary of Motorola's agreement with Qualcomm," meaning that Motorola can't sue it for patents it is licensing from Qualcomm. The lawsuit ...
According to recently released court documents, Motorola is looking to get 2.25 percent of Apple's iPhone business in exchange for licensing patents that Motorola claims Apple uses.