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Should (or Will) Google Start Playing Offense With Its Patent Arsenal?

by Mike Mansell August 22, 2011

When Google first launched their patent search in December of 2006 I don’t think many people believed or even thought it possible that Google’s own patents would come to flood the search results only a few years later. But now in 2011 we’ve witnessed Google, a company that has grown to massive proportions over the [...]

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Has Google Burned Bridges With the Motorola Acquisition?

by Mike Mansell August 16, 2011

Now that Google is buying out Motorola Mobility, will its relations with other smartphone manufacturers such as HTC and Samsung be damaged? It’s entirely possible.

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Google to Acquire Motorola Mobility

by Jeff Weisbein August 15, 2011

This morning Google announced that it will be acquiring Motorola Mobility. An acquisition which CEO Larry Page hopes will “supercharge” Android. But perhaps, more importantly, Larry Page notes that, “Our acquisition of Motorola will increase competition by strengthening Google’s patent portfolio, which will enable us to better protect Android from anti-competitive threats.”

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Google Learns From Facebook Failure, Implements Games Into Google+

by Mike Mansell August 12, 2011

If you’re a long-time Facebook user I’m sure that you still remember the “good old days” when Facebook “applications” had a huge tendency to cause frustration right and left because of the horrid levels of spam that would get passed onto the end-users. While I for one was a pretty big Facebook fan at the time, even [...]

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Forget Android Tablets, We Want Chrome OS Tablets

by Mike Mansell August 9, 2011

Even though Google’s Android mobile operating system has covered quite a bit of ground in the smartphone market over the last few years, there really is no denying the sad reality that the OS hasn’t proven to be of any success in the tablet market yet. But why?

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Malware: Perhaps the Fastest-Growing Android Development

by Mike Mansell August 5, 2011

Just yesterday I wrote about a move on the part of Google to enhance developers’ know-how and ability to create feature-rich tablet-focused applications for the Android mobile platform. Many people, myself included, believe that this well-played move will help Google to overcome one of the largest issues with its mobile OS; the fact that many [...]

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Google’s Smart Strategy for Engaging Developers

by Mike Mansell August 4, 2011

When it comes to the mobile industry, the one factor that can honestly and truly “make or break” a device in the open industry is the support and availability of third-party apps. Just look at the first generation Apple iPhone and the first release of the iPhone OS. Sure, it was advanced for its time, [...]

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The Google Patent Hypocrisy

by Mike Mansell August 1, 2011

If you asked me to name one thing – in business and in life – that drives me up the wall it would hands-down be hypocrites. That said, I realize that people are never going to see eye-to-eye all the time, and in all honesty I think that differing opinions on various subjects ultimately does quite a bit of good by brining issues into the open and forcing people to make an attempt at solving things.

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Google Plus Taking a Nose-Dive Already?

by Mike Mansell July 29, 2011

It seems that users have been fed up with Facebook and Twitter for nearly as long as each respective service has been around, and if only in day-dreams I think it’s safe to say that just about everyone has wished for the “perfect” social network to come along at one point or another. After opening its doors as an invite-only service on June 28th, yesterday officially marked the one month milestone for Google Plus.

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Are Android Tablets Doomed for Failure?

by Mike Mansell July 27, 2011

Towards the beginning of the year the tablet-ready 3.0 version of Google’s wildly popular Android mobile operating system, dubbed “Honeycomb” ,was the bees knees in the tech industry. So when the release finally made way into the hands of consumers back in February, a month before the official release of Apple’s second generation iPad, many thought that it would finally help to take Android to new heights in the tablet market.

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