Google headquarters must be all high-fives this week. Just hours after the European Commission cleared the company’s proposed acquisition of Motorola, the US department of justice has given its approval to the deal as well. “The division concluded that the specific transactions at issue are
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Remember the Razr? It was Motorola’s incredibly popular series of super-thin flip phones that sold more than 130m units, making it the most popular “clamshell”-style phones in the history on the mobile device industry. Well, the Razr is back, at least in name if not in design
Fresh in from Nokia World, Brett Haggard and Simon Dingle are joined by Ben Kelly to discuss Nokia’s new device line-up, Sony buying out Sony Ericsson, Motorola’s new RAZR Android device, bendy-screen gadgets, Ubuntu on smartphones and tablets, and much more
There’s a wave coming. Its first eddies were felt almost a decade ago, and by now it has already engulfed some outlying regions. But the general public has been largely unaware of its approach. Until now. I’m talking about the arrival of fully
Telkom has launched its first mobile offerings aimed at the business market and is taking the fight to its rivals with aggressive introductory offers on smartphones and tablets. Telkom Business Mobile – the brand the company is using
The patent wars in the technology industry are intensifying. Google’s proposed US$12,5bn acquisition of Motorola Mobility is regarded as a defensive move by the search giant to buy up a patent portfolio to protect itself from companies like Apple that are
There’s less and less separating mobile handsets from one another when it comes to the hardware that powers them. So, what happens when users can decide for themselves what operating system software they want to run on their phones? Just looking at the latest
With the recent announcement that Android developer Google is acquiring Motorola Mobility, the US handset manufacturer is expected to enjoy more attention than it has in recent years. If its most recent smartphone, the Atrix, is anything
Motorola’s Xoom has (finally) gone on sale in SA. Though it was originally regarded as the ultimate Android response to Apple’s iPad, much has changed since it was first released in international markets in February. TechCentral’s Craig Wilson spent some time
Motorola Mobility, the mobile devices arm of Motorola that is in the throes of being bought by Google, is finally launching its Android-based Xoom tablet and Atrix smartphone in SA. With a 10,1-inch screen, 1GB of RAM, 32GB of flash memory