Articles about Motorola

GeekWork Picks: Rover seeks engineers to help grow dog-sitting platform

Rover has come a long way since it was founded in Seattle in 2011. The dog-sitting tech company has acquired one… Read More

Amazon expands ad-supported Prime smartphone discount program with addition of Moto G Play

Amazon says its discount smartphones for Prime members supported by lock screen ads have been a huge hit, so the online… Read More

Microsoft to preload Office and Skype on millions more Android devices under new Lenovo deal

Microsoft has struck a deal to preload some of its most popular programs onto a portion of Chinese tech giant… Read More

Motorola and Socrata partner to improve neighborhood crime reporting, seeking to help police rebuild public trust

Motorola Solutions, the Schaumburg, Ill.-based telecommunications company, and Socrata, the Seattle digital government startup, are partnering to improve Motorola’s crime reporting… Read More

Motorola enlists Ashton Kutcher and ‘would you rather’ game to plug its new smartphone

This is an interesting tactic to take to sell smartphones — making fun of people’s addictions to their smartphones. “We… Read More

Inventor of the cell phone: iPhone 6s is ‘boring’ and VR is the birth of a new industry

It been more than 40 years since Marty Cooper stood on a Manhattan sidewalk and placed the first ever cell phone… Read More

Appeals court sides with Microsoft in dispute with Google over Motorola patents

An appeals court on Thursday ruled in favor of Microsoft in a patent battle with Google, further cementing an emerging legal precedent… Read More

Apple sides with Microsoft in closely watched patent dispute with Google

Lawyers for Microsoft and Google will appear Wednesday morning at the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco in a long-running dispute… Read More

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Lenovo closes acquisition of Motorola Mobility

Motorola Mobility announced today that its acquisition by Chinese tech giant Lenovo has finally closed, almost 10 months after the… Read More

Microsoft, Motorola Solutions to share technology with patent licensing agreement

Microsoft today announced a patent licensing agreement with Motorola Solutions, enabling the two companies to share technology. The license will… Read More

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Holiday sales boost iPhone’s market share in the U.S., as BlackBerry circles the drain

While Apple famously says that it doesn’t care about the market share of its products, the company’s mobile market share… Read More

Intellectual Ventures’ patent showdown with Motorola ends in mistrial

Intellectual Ventures’s first legal fight with Google-owned Motorola Mobility has ended with both sides walking away with nothing but a… Read More

Intellectual Ventures to battle Google in court over mobile patents this week

For the first time ever, Intellectual Ventures finds itself in patent court this week. The Bellevue-based company run by former Microsoft… Read More

Low-cost Moto G now available for pre-order, ships December 2

Motorola said that the low-cost Moto G would be coming to the U.S. in January. Well, it seems like they’ve… Read More

Lead juror in Microsoft vs. Motorola was genetics pioneer Mary-Claire King

Mary-Claire King, the famed scientist who discovered the link between the BRCA1 gene and many forms of breast and ovarian cancer,… Read More

Microsoft wins jury verdict vs. Motorola; $14M in damages is half of what Microsoft sought

Updated with Google comment. A federal jury in Seattle ruled in Microsoft’s favor this afternoon in a patent dispute with… Read More

Microsoft vs. Motorola: It’s game day, and the jury is dressed accordingly

Updated with details of Motorola’s closing argument. After a trial lasting more than a week, lawyers for Microsoft and Motorola… Read More

Microsoft patent chief in court: We weren’t trying to put Motorola out of business

How far apart are Microsoft and Motorola these days? They can’t even agree on what they’re arguing about. The trial… Read More

Motorola lawyer to jury: ‘Microsoft was trying to put Motorola out of business’

A lawyer for Motorola urged a jury in Seattle this afternoon to consider the company’s October 2010 patent licensing offer… Read More

Microsoft vs. Motorola: Jury seated, patent trial set to start

A jury of seven women and one man will hear opening statements in federal court in Seattle this afternoon in… Read More

Motorola vs. Microsoft, Round 2: Judge deals blow to Google on eve of jury trial

A long-running patent dispute between Microsoft and Motorola will come to a head in federal court in Seattle this week… Read More

Moto X: A Google phone made in the USA starting at $199

If you’re an Android fan and want to have hundreds of color selections for a smartphone, well, Google’s new device… Read More

Two years after gobbling up Motorola, Google set to debut Moto X smartphone

We’ll finally get a first look at the so-called Moto X when Google’s Motorola unit unveils the much-anticipated smartphone in… Read More

iPhone sales stay hot as shipments of smartphones set to pass feature phones in 2013

Smartphones are taking over the world. Well, not really. But the latest estimates from the International Data Corporation indicate that… Read More

ITC sides with Microsoft, says Xbox 360 did not infringe on Motorola patents

A major chapter in the Microsoft v. Motorola patent war finally came to a close Wednesday and it’s good news… Read More

Why I won’t buy another subsidized Android phone (and why you shouldn’t, either)

Guest Commentary: In the past few weeks, T-Mobile has been trying to shake up the mobile phone industry by offering… Read More

Judge: Motorola can’t block sales of Xbox, Windows

Motorola Mobility won’t be able to block the import and sale of Xbox or Windows, a federal judge in Seattle… Read More

Microsoft vs. Motorola: Courtroom cleared as secret Xbox details discussed

With the general manager of Microsoft’s Xbox hardware group on the stand in the company’s patent trial vs. Motorola, a… Read More

Motorola wants to collect royalties on Microsoft Surface, too

Reporting from federal court: Microsoft’s patent dispute with Motorola focuses largely on technologies used by Windows and the Xbox 360,… Read More

Microsoft vs. Motorola patent trial begins, with brief Xbox ‘Durango’ mention

The patent trial pitting Microsoft vs. Google’s Motorola Mobility is getting underway in federal court in Seattle, with a standing-room-only… Read More