Google Going All In on Mobile
The tech media, and general media as well, is all a flutter about Google acquiring Motorola Mobility (note that this is one part of Motorola, the other being their Solutions group which is 2x the size of Mobility in terms of revenue). Henry Blodgett thinks it will end as a disaster for Google and my good […]
Google Announces the Intent to Acquire Motorola Mobility
Falling squarely in the Monday morning wow, that’s a surprise, category, Google announced that it intends to acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5B in cash. The obvious move to compete head to head with Apple, also helps Google offset the recent acquisition of the Nortel patents by a consortium that included Microsoft, RIM and Apple, but […]
ON that Personal Computing Nirvana Again
This will be a fairly short post – because all I do is refer to this piece I wrote recently: Motorola Takes Us a Step Closer to Personal Computing Nirvana–and it’s Not Even a Computer Why bring it up again? Because Walt Mossberg just validated the concept: Today’s best smartphones are really hand-held computers. They […]
