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Walkie-talkie payola?

Sep 27, 2011
The Justice Department and Securities Exchange Commission are looking into Motorola Solutions to see whether it offered bribes to foreign...

Google paid way more than it had to for Motorola

Sep 14, 2011
I don't claim to be a mergers and acquisitions expert but it looks like Google's been buying its groceries at the convenience store. In other words...

Patents, the tech stocks of tech companies

Sep 8, 2011
HTC, the fifth largest smartphone maker (George Martin... Billy Preston... Brian Epstein?), has amended an existing lawsuit against Apple claiming...

Meanwhile, you can get a Samsung Galaxy Tab for free kinda

Aug 19, 2011
That's at Best Buy if you buy a $1500 46-inch 3D TV. They toss in a Galaxy Tab for free. Best Buy says this is more a promotion for the 3D TV than...

Google buying Motorola

Aug 15, 2011
So this is a fine way to kick off a week in tech news. Google is slated to pay 12.5 billion dollars for the handset maker. The deal would put...

Xoom successor already planned

Mar 23, 2011
You know what? I give up. Don't buy a tablet. That's my advice. At least don't buy one until all the retailers start advertising every single...

Xoom is great! Don't buy it.

Feb 24, 2011
That's the gist of Walter Mossberg's review of Motorola's new challenger to the iPad on All Things D. He says the Android Honeycomb operating...

For public good, not for profit.

Motorola Xoom to cost 700 dollars? Or maybe 800? I'm exhausted.

Jan 24, 2011
The Xoom, Motorola's impending Android based tablet and alleged iPad killer, was arguably the hit of the recent Consumer Electronics Show. Huge...

Toward the top of the cresting (or possibly swelling) wave of tablets

Jan 6, 2011
Two tablets that are getting a lot of press coming out of CES are Motorola's Xoom and RIM's PlayBook. The Xoom runs on Android and Motorola is...