Tag: MOTOROLA

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... According to an official press release and new illustrated video, Google's joint operation with Sony, Intel and Logitech "seamlessly integrates your TV, DVR recordings and the entire Internet" by way of either a special television or a separate box. Google also boasts that, with various search functions, customizable home screen ...

We can't ask George Washington Carver if he prefers crunchy or smooth peanut butter. We can't seek the consultation of the Wright Brothers on how to go about saving the airline industry. We can, though, pick the brain of the very much alive Marty Cooper, the man who invented the cell phone -- which is exactly what C-Span recently did. Over the course of a half hour interview, Cooper revealed that ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Ben Stiller frequently steals the spotlight at the Oscars with ridiculous costumes and zany routines. At this year's ceremony, though, his passionate love for the Na'vi from 'Avatar' apparently overpowered his desire for laughs. Stiller dressed as a blue-hued humanoid in a hilariously uncomfortable routine honoring James Cameron's ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... While Facebook's membership continues to expand, the site's success has been somewhat marred, at least in the media, by a never-ending brouhaha over privacy issues. The site is now facing a California class-action lawsuit, in which five Facebook members are claiming that the site erroneously announced that its updated privacy ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... The Mogreet mobile video firm focuses on MMS, particularly the development of text messaging and the incorporation of phone-to-phone video sharing. The company has now drafted Hollywood icon David Lynch to help share its new technology, as it has introduced a texting program through which subscribers can receive exclusive David ...

Share A reader writes: These Android smartphones look pretty hot. It seems they can do everything the iPhone does, but they come in more flavors, from more companies. So what's the best one to get? Dear Reader: The Android operating system may be the first serious competitor to the iPhone platform -- with a slick interface and tons of cool applications. Unlike Apple's tightly policed Apps ...

Motorola, riding high on the success of the Droid, yesterday officially unveiled the Backflip, an Android-based phone. Nothing too exciting on the software front, as the Backflip is currently running the Blur skin (also seen on the Cliq) on Android 1.5. With Android 2.0 already out, the phone's older OS is already looking a bit old pre-launch, but Moto promises 2.1 later in the year. The ...

AT&T is finally getting in on the Android party, promising to soon carry handsets from Motorola, HTC, and Dell. In total, five separate devices will be launching in the first half of 2010. Among those is the Dell Mini 3, which is the company's first smartphone and has only been available in China and Brazil. The Dell is a 3G- and GPS-enabled device with a 640x360 touchscreen and a 3-megapixel ...

It's been a very, very, very, very, long time since Motorola had a legitimate hit on its hands. In fact, ever since the release of the RAZR in 2003, the company -- which had been the driving force behind the mobile industry for 20 years -- has been steadily sliding into obsolescence. But, if sales numbers for the highly anticipated DROID are a good predictor, the company that sold the first ...

Motorola's DROID may be the largest threat to Apple's stranglehold on the smartphone market to date, and for good reason. Available starting tomorrow for $199 (with a minimum $70 voice and data monthly plan), the DROID offers lots to like: a sturdy, angular, all-black design; a crystal clear, high-resolution display (854 by 480 pixels); a faster, 550MHz-rated processor; the next-generation ...

Verizon and Google announced a new partnership that will bring Android powered devices to the cellular carrier in the coming weeks. While we knew that Android handsets were coming to Big Red, the press release suggests this partnership goes beyond Verizon slapping its branding on an HTC Hero. According to the announcement, the two companies, "plan to co-develop several Android-based devices that ...

Motorola has created a new cell phone technology that could warn users when a disaster occurs, even if most of the network is not working, according to NewScientist. Here's how it would work: In the event of disaster, a functional cell phone outside and nearby the disaster area is alerted. Using Wi-Fi, this phone creates a peer-to-peer network with another phone and passes along the alert. The ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/apple/iPhone_3G_overtakes_the_RAZR_as_bestselling_domestic_handset'; According to a report from NPD, sales of cellphones have shifted in a manner which should shock and stun even a casual observer. Apparently for the first time in years, Motorola's ubiquitous RAZR has been overtaken in consumer sales... by the iPhone 3G. This is a watershed moment for handset sales ...

No matter how dire Motorola's situation may be, it's still been able to cling to one last title keeping it firmly entrenched in the ranks of the world's mobile manufacturing elite: US phone sales. For years, Motorola has ridden the RAZR gravy train to success on its home turf more than any other, keeping more globally relevant rivals like Nokia and LG at bay. No longer, though -- Samsung has ...

To be honest, we were surprised that we didn't hear this number along with the other doom and gloom professed during Motorola's Q3 earnings call, but the writing was very clearly on the wall. As part of the mentioned $800 million expenditure cut planned for 2009, 3,000 (more) of Moto's employees will be looking for work elsewhere. According to an unnamed spokeswoman, a "little over two-thirds of ...