San Francisco: Google is expected to use its annual software developers' conference to showcase the latest mobile devices running on its Android software, while also unveiling other features in its evolving product line-up.
The gathering, scheduled to begin Wednesday in San Francisco, provides Google with an opportunity to flex its technological muscle in front of a sold-out audience of engineers and entrepreneurs who develop applications and other features that can make smartphones and tablets more appealing.
Reporters from around the world also will be on hand, giving Google a chance to generate more hoopla about its latest innovations.
The company, which is based in Mountain View, California, made a big splash at last year's conference by staging an elaborate production to highlight the potential of Google Glass - an Internet-connected device and camera that can be worn on a person's face like a pair of spectacles. Google co-founder Sergey Brin wowed the crowd last year by taking to the stage and then engaging in a live video chat with a group of skydivers who were in a dirigible hovering above the convention. When they jumped, the skydivers' descent to the rooftop was shown live through the Google Glass camera....
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12:55 PM, May 15, 2013
Washington: Google Inc's core Internet business grew net revenue 23 per cent in the first quarter, softening the effect of a sharp decline in its Motorola mobile phone division. Shares of Google, which reached an all-time high of $844 in March, were up 1.5 per cent to $777.75 in after hours trading on Thursday. "Google eked out an acceptable quarter, but it wasn't easy," said Stifel Nicolaus analyst Jordan Rohan....
02:30 PM, Apr 21, 2013
San Francisco: Google's latest quarterly results provided further proof that the Internet search leader is figuring out how to make more money as Web surfers migrate from personal computers to mobile devices. The first-quarter numbers released Thursday show that a recent decline in Google's average ad prices is easing. That's an indication that marketers are starting to pay more for the ads that Google distributes to smartphones and tablet computers....
01:38 PM, Apr 20, 2013
Back in 1973 Motorola was very categorical in rejecting the assumption that mobile phones cold replace landlines. ...
04:59 PM, Apr 03, 2013
The Motorola DynaTAC is the world's first mobile phone - that Motorola termed as a portable radio telephone. ...
04:14 PM, Apr 03, 2013
Exactly 40 years ago, on April 3, 1973, Motorola demonstrated the world's first portable cellular telephone and system. ...
03:35 PM, Apr 03, 2013
The long-running Xbox case has seen many twists and turns since it was filed in late 2010. ...
04:47 PM, Mar 23, 2013
The Motorola X Phone is very much real and will start shipping in July this year, according to sources within Motorola. The X Phone has been circulating in the rumour mills for quite some time now and is expected to be unveiled, or at the very least, teased during Google I/O in May. That would also be a good launchpad for the estimated July launch date. ...
12:07 PM, Mar 16, 2013
The lay-offs come on top of the 4,000 jobs cut at Motorola Mobility in August. ...
01:45 PM, Mar 08, 2013
Motorola Mobility had an operating loss of $353 million during the quarter. ...
07:16 AM, Jan 23, 2013
Google filed a motion with the International Trade Commission, asking that two patents be withdrawn from the case. One patent remains. ...
06:34 AM, Jan 10, 2013
Samsung Electronics has confirmed that the company this year will come up with handsets running Tizen OS backed by Intel. ...
05:40 PM, Jan 03, 2013
Google Inc is working with recently acquired Motorola on a handset codenamed "X-phone", aimed at grabbing market share from Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter. ...
12:50 PM, Dec 22, 2012
San Francisco: Google is selling Motorola Mobility's TV set-top business for $2.35 billion, lightening the load that the Internet search leader took on earlier this year when it completed the biggest acquisition in its history. The cash-and-stock deal announced late Wednesday will turn over Motorola's set-top division to Arris Group Inc., a relatively small provider of high-speed Internet equipment that is looking to become a bigger player in the delivery...
10:10 AM, Dec 20, 2012
San Francisco: Google's Motorola Mobility unit cannot assert a patent against Apple Inc which covers a sensor that stops phone users from dialing wrong numbers on touchscreen devices, a US trade judge ruled. In an entry on the US International Trade Commission docket on Tuesday, Administrative Law Judge Thomas Pender ruled the Motorola patent invalid. "We're disappointed with this outcome and are evaluating our options," Motorola spokeswoman Jennifer Weyrauch-Erickson said....
10:47 AM, Dec 19, 2012
Seattle: Microsoft Corp and Google Inc's Motorola Mobility unit have requested a federal judge in Seattle to keep secret from the public various details from their recent trial concerning the value of technology patents and the two companies' attempts at a settlement. Microsoft and Motorola, acquired by Google earlier this year, are preparing post-trial briefs to present to a judge as he decides the outcome of a week-long trial last...
10:57 AM, Dec 16, 2012
New Delhi: In August, Motorola had announced to axe 20 per cent of its global work force, and shut almost a third of its offices across the world. And now the company seems to have started its process. The company has now shut down its India website. If you go the Motorola website you will get a message that reads, "Important Message to our customers in India. We are streamlining...
12:05 PM, Nov 26, 2012
Seattle: A Google expert witness testified on Tuesday that Microsoft will make roughly $94 billion in revenue through 2017 from its Xbox game console and Surface tablet that use Google's patented wireless technology. Michael Dansky, an expert for Google's Motorola Mobility unit, testified on the last day of a high stakes trial over patents between Microsoft and Google in Seattle. The $94 billion figure he cited also includes a wireless...
10:52 AM, Nov 21, 2012
