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Stray Thought: Google to buy Motorola Mobility.

One of the big news in the Month of August 2011: Google to buy Motorola Mobility. Google licenses Android OS to handset makers such as HTC, Samsung, LG, Sony Ericsson and Motorola. Would Google be competing with its Android licensees by buying Motorola?

Imagine if Microsoft bought HP Personal Systems Group and started making its own branded computers?

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HTC and Samsung: “Dear Google, we have patents too.”

In Google’s Official Blog, Larry Page, Google CEO says:

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 from Microsoft, Apple and other companies.

Note to Larry Page:

HTC has those S3 patents that Apple is found to be infringing upon and Samsung is suing/countersuing Apple for patent infringement. Buy them too, and Google would have more in its patent arsenal.

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Note to anyone who cares:
Both HTC and Samsung make Windows Phone 7…….errrr phones. LG also makes that awkwardly named phones, but do they have worthwhile patent portfolio? -editor

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Patent Cold War is turning for the worse as Google acquired Motorola.

I might have been watching too much of Star Trek: Enterprise on Netflix. The “Temporal Cold War” arc might have been a ridiculous plot but it was actually enjoyable to watch.

Google just announced its upcoming acquisition of Motorola Mobility.

We recently explained how companies including Microsoft and Apple are banding together in anti-competitive patent attacks on Android. The U.S. Department of Justice had to intervene in the results of one recent patent auction to “protect competition and innovation in the open source software community” and it is currently looking into the results of the Nortel auction. 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 from Microsoft, Apple and other companies.

Who would’ve thunk that Google would have to categorize Apple and Microsoft as common enemies? Motorolans and Googlers are combining forces against the Apples, Microsofties and Oracles. Don’t forget Samsungers and the HTCees. Android is under attack and Googlers are not going to take it anymore.

Patent Cold War is going strong.

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Google to acquire Motorola Mobility.

Google has just announced its upcoming acquisition of Motorola Mobility, the maker of Droid line.

This is an interesting development since recently Google accuses Microsoft of violating confidentiality agreement. Microsoft in its lawsuit against Motorola was said to show Android source code to an expert witness without Google’s consent.

I’m a bit confused why showing Android source code needs Google’s consent. I always heard that Android is an Open Source project. Well, apparently it is not. -editor

Motorola on January 4th, 2011 separated its core business into two companies; Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions.

By acquiring Motorola Mobility, Google will be able to control both Android software and hardware.

This should make HTC really happy. -editor

This is so unlike Microsoft and Nokia “partnership”.

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Google is buying Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion while Microsoft acquired Nokia without buying it. – editor