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		<title>Consolidating Smartphone Market Putting Pressure on Second-Tier Makers</title>
		<link>http://allthingsd.com/20120207/consolidating-smartphone-market-putting-pressure-on-second-tier-makers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ina Fried</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While Samsung and Apple battle for bragging rights atop the smartphone market, many of their rivals may find themselves battling for their lives.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A lot of attention is being paid to the battle between Apple and Samsung for bragging rights atop the smartphone market. The two are <a href="http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS23299912">neck and neck when it comes to the U.S. smartphone market</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://allthingsd.com/files/2012/02/att_smartphones.png"><img src="http://allthingsd.com/files/2012/02/att_smartphones.png" alt="" title="att_smartphones" width="380" height="285" class="alignright size-full wp-image-171964" /></a></p>
<p>But even more interesting, perhaps, is what is happening to the next tier of players. Both HTC and Motorola, for example, have <a href="http://allthingsd.com/20120206/phone-maker-htc-reports-tough-quarter-and-forecasts-continued-pain-ahead/">recently issued downbeat earnings and forecasts</a>.</p>
<p>Not so long ago, it appeared that the rising tide would lift all smartphone boats. HTC, in particular, was doubling sales year over year, and its growth seemed unstoppable.</p>
<p>But now it appears that the wave is thrashing as many as it is helping. HTC has hit a wall; plenty of other Android players, including Sony and Motorola, are struggling to keep pace with the leaders.</p>
<p>Both Motorola and HTC have said their strategy this year will be about <a href="http://allthingsd.com/20120126/htc-to-give-up-on-quantity-and-try-quality/">putting more effort behind fewer devices</a>. It remains to be seen what the plan is for Sony, which is in the process of taking over its cellphone joint venture with Ericsson.</p>
<p>As for the top of the heap, both Apple and Samsung appear to be flourishing. For the year, Samsung edged Apple in smartphone shipments, while Apple was narrowly ahead of Samsung in the fourth quarter.</p>
<p><a href="http://allthingsd.com/files/2012/02/Screen-Shot-2012-02-06-at-8.46.10-PM.png"><img src="http://allthingsd.com/files/2012/02/Screen-Shot-2012-02-06-at-8.46.10-PM-560x480.png" alt="" title="Screen Shot 2012-02-06 at 8.46.10 PM" width="560" height="480" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-171931" /></a></p>
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		<title>Motorola: Act Now and We'll Include the Previous Owner's Personal Data on Your Refurbished Xoom Free!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:11:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Paczkowski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Motorola sells a bunch of refurbished Xoom tablets without wiping them of their previous owners' data.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> <img src="http://allthingsd.com/files/2011/10/duncecap-378x285.png" alt="" title="duncecap" width="378" height="285" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-132445" />Motorola&#8217;s fall sale of refurbished Xoom tablets has gone about as wrong as it could possibly have gone. </p>
<p>The company said today that 100 of the 6,200 it sold through Woot.com between October and December of 2011 <a href="http://mediacenter.motorola.com/Press-Releases/Motorola-Mobility-Notifies-Certain-Purchasers-of-Refurbished-Motorola-XOOM-Wi-Fi-Tablets-of-Refurbishment-Process-Error-39d6.aspx">may not have been properly reformatted</a>.</p>
<p>In other words, they still contained the personal information of their previous owners &#8212; everything from email and social networking passwords to photos and documents.</p>
<p>What an incredible cock-up.</p>
<p>Motorola&#8217;s solution to the problem? To &#8220;actively pursue the return of the impacted refurbished units&#8221; (visit <a href="http://www.motorola.com/xoomreturn">motorola.com/xoomreturn</a> if you think you may have one). Also: offer customers whose personal data might have been compromised a two-year subscription to credit rating agency Experian’s ProtectMyID identity theft service.</p>
<p>A decent gesture, I suppose &#8212; unless some miscreant has already pilfered your personal information from the device in the four months it has taken Motorola to notice its mistake.</p>
<p>“Motorola sincerely regrets and apologizes for any inconvenience this situation has caused,” the company said in a statement.</p>
<p><strong>Update: </strong>The peanut gallery chimes in:</p>
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		<title>Motorola Raises Barely a Ripple in the Tablet Wave</title>
		<link>http://allthingsd.com/20120126/motorola-raises-barely-a-ripple-in-the-tablet-wave/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Paczkowski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It took Motorola Mobility a full year to ship 1/15th the number of iPads Apple sold in its most recent quarter.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://allthingsd.com/files/2012/01/motorola_tablets.png" alt="" title="motorola_tablets" width="380" height="285" class="alignright size-full wp-image-168025" />Some <a href="http://mediacenter.motorola.com/Press-Releases/Motorola-Mobility-Announces-Fourth-Quarter-and-Full-Year-Financial-Results-39c2.aspx">disappointing numbers</a> in Motorola Mobility&#8217;s latest earnings report: A loss of $80 million on revenue of $3.4 billion, and mobile device shipments of 10.5 million versus 11.3 million a year ago. Still, few were as grim as these: 200,000 tablets shipped in the fourth quarter and just 1 million shipped for all of 2011. In other words, it took MoMo a full year to ship <a href="http://allthingsd.com/20120124/apples-monster-quarter/">1/15th the number of iPads Apple sold in its most recent quarter</a>.</p>
<p>And this is the company that Google has decided to spend $12.5 billion on.</p>
<p>Of course, Motorola Mobility has always known it had its work cut out for it on the tablet front. As <a href="http://allthingsd.com/20111230/motorolas-christy-wyatt-on-how-the-company-plans-to-stand-out-from-the-android-pack/">Christy Wyatt, VP and general manager for mobile devices, told <strong>AllThingsD&#8217;s</strong> Ina Fried</a> last month, &#8220;I think tablets have come a long, long way. Adoption of Android tablets in the broad consumer sense, and especially with enterprise users, is still something we would like to focus on for the next year. A lot of that has to do with the application ecosystem, making sure we have the applications that we need. [Google's] Ice Cream Sandwich [Android update] goes a long way to unify the developer communities across screens.&#8221;</p>
<p>And why will people pick Motorola out of the legion of Android contenders? &#8220;At the end of the day, there are certain brands that consumers trust,&#8221; said Wyatt. &#8220;People tend to go to the Motorola brand where they are looking for a brand that they trust for reliability, for quality.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Motorola Pledges to Take More "Smart Actions" in 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ina Fried</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The cellphone maker plans to keep trying to make smartphones simpler, in part by suggesting to users options to make their phones work better.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After already <a href="http://allthingsd.com/20120110/motorola-ceo-were-going-to-release-fewer-phones-this-year/">promising it will introduce fewer new phones this year</a> than last, Motorola said on Tuesday that it is doubling down on some of the bets it made last year.</p>
<p><a href="http://allthingsd.com/files/2012/01/mutricy_hi-res.png"><img src="http://allthingsd.com/files/2012/01/mutricy_hi-res-265x400.png" alt="" title="mutricy_hi-res" width="265" height="400" class="alignright size-Medium380 wp-image-167256" /></a></p>
<p>In particular, Motorola plans to continue investing in so-called &#8220;smart actions&#8221; &#8212; rules designed to make it easier for novice users to make their phones act the way they want them to.</p>
<p>For example, if a phone is consistently running low on battery, the phone recommends settings to improve battery life. If a user misses several calls in a row, the phone can suggest turning up the ringer.</p>
<p>All of those options were there, Motorola says, but required users to know the exact control panels and settings that needed to be tweaked.</p>
<p>&#8220;You need to be a geek to do that,&#8221; <a href="http://mediacenter.motorola.com/Executive-Team/Alain-Mutricy-33d8.aspx">Senior VP Alain Mutricy</a> said in a briefing with reporters.</p>
<p>Motorola also plans to expand the Razr line introduced last year, and will continue investing in the Webtop software that allows phones to connect to laptop-like docking stations. The phone maker has already introduced the Razr Maxx &#8212; a new, high-end version of the Razr with a more capable battery.</p>
<p>While not going into details about new devices or the company&#8217;s soon-to-be-reported earnings, Mutricy said that Motorola is focused primarily on the high end of the U.S. market, particularly as carriers upgrade to high-speed 4G LTE networks.</p>
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		<title>A Loss for Apple in Motorola Suit</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 16:52:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Drew FitzGerald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. welcomed a ruling from the U.S. International Trade Commission that denied patent-infringement allegations raised by Apple Inc.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. welcomed a ruling from the U.S. International Trade Commission that denied patent-infringement allegations raised by Apple Inc.</p>
<p>Apple had asked the commission to block imports of Motorola phones such as the Droid and Droid X that run Google Inc.&#8217;s Android software, claiming they infringed on its patents.</p>
<p><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204409004577159422087560992.html#ixzz1jS5SqnPh">Read the rest of this post on the original site »</a></p>
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		<title>Expedia President Scott Durchslag Resigns Suddenly</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tricia Duryee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Closely following the spinoff of TripAdvisor from Expedia last month, Scott Durchslag has officially stepped down as worldwide president of Expedia.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Closely following <a href="http://allthingsd.com/20111209/expedia-takes-stock-as-tripadvisor-gets-ready-to-fly-the-coop/c">the spinoff of TripAdvisor from Expedia</a> last month, Scott Durchslag has officially stepped down today as worldwide president of Expedia.</p>
<p><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-163368" title="expedia_scottDurchslag" src="http://allthingsd.com/files/2012/01/expedia_scottDurchslag-231x285.png" alt="" width="231" height="285" />We confirmed his resignation with a spokesperson, but it was <a href="http://www.geekwire.com/2012/expedia-worldwide-president-scott-durchslag-departs#utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+geekwire+%28GeekWire%29">first reported by Geekwire&#8217;s John Cook</a> this morning.</p>
<p>The spokesperson did not provide a reason for Durchslag&#8217;s departure, adding that the role would now be filled by Expedia&#8217;s CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi.</p>
<p>Before Durchslag&#8217;s 14-month stint at Expedia, he was the COO at Skype and a corporate VP at Motorola. As seen in the photo on the right, Durchslag attended the  <strong>D</strong> conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., last June <a href="http://allthingsd.com/20110601/exclusive-groupon-books-travel-plans-through-expedia-partnership/">to announce a travel partnership with Groupon</a> before Groupon&#8217;s CEO Andrew Mason was interviewed on stage.</p>
<p>Expedia&#8217;s stock was trading down about 1 percent, or 40 cents, today to $28.91 a share.</p>
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		<title>Intel Shows Just How It Plans to Get Into Phones (Video)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ina Fried</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an interview, Intel's top phone executives talk about the company's big bet on Android.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For years, Intel has talked about <a href="http://allthingsd.com/20111221/intel-to-detail-its-phone-plans-at-ces-next-month/">using its chips to power smartphones</a>. Now it actually has something in its hands.</p>
<p><img src="http://allthingsd.com/files/2012/01/mike_bell_intel.png" alt="" title="mike_bell_intel" width="380" height="285" class="alignright size-full wp-image-162637" /></p>
<p>At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Intel is showing a working reference design that it is offering to any phone maker that wants to use its chips. The phone itself packs a 1.6GHz single-core Atom chip along with an array of sensors and radios.</p>
<p>&#8220;The sample platform we have is fully buzzword compliant,&#8221; General Manager Mike Bell said in an interview.</p>
<p>The company has been testing thousands of phones internally and says the performance is top of class, with battery life at least as good as most Android devices.</p>
<p>&#8220;We are not the best at power, but we are definitely very, very competitive,&#8221; Bell said.</p>
<p>Compatibility is another issue that Bell said he is asked about a lot. Nearly all Java-based Android apps should run, as well as a good number of those designed specifically for chips based on cores from rival ARM.</p>
<p>&#8220;We think that gets rid of the last argument people have,&#8221; Bell said.</p>
<p>Of course, Intel faces plenty of competition in the phone chip space, including existing Android chip providers Qualcomm, Nvidia, Texas Instruments and other challengers, such as Broadcom.</p>
<p>Intel is announcing two phone customers running its chips &#8212; a Lenovo phone for China slated to be released in the first half of the year and a multi-year, multi-device alliance with Motorola Mobility that will begin with a phone in the second half of the year.</p>
<p>Although Intel announced only the two customers, Bell indicated more names will be coming soon. (Think next month&#8217;s Mobile World Congress for an update.)</p>
<p>&#8220;You can imagine our business is all about scale,&#8221; he said, declining to say how many phone designs are being built around its chips, or how many customers it has.</p>
<p>In a roundtable with reporters, Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha said he was attracted to the chipmaker by both its roadmap and its approach, which focuses as much on running multiple instructions on a single chip core as it does on packing in as many cores as possible.</p>
<p>&#8220;What they have done is multithreading vs. multicore,&#8221; Jha said, noting there is a big debate in computer science as to which is better. Jha said that, along with other innovations like three-dimensional transistors, this will be important as the laws of physics prevent rapid performance gains just by shrinking the size of transistors.</p>
<p>Intel has focused its phone efforts entirely on Android for now, noting that it believes it has more people working on Android than Google does.</p>
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		<title>Motorola CEO: We're Going to Release Fewer Phones This Year</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Android phone maker says to expect a slowdown in the rapid-fire release of new models as it looks to concentrate its marketing behind several key products.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>While the trend has been for Android device makers to throw new models off the assembly line at a dizzying pace, at least one phone manufacturer is stepping off the treadmill.</p>
<p><a href="http://allthingsd.com/files/2012/01/Screen-Shot-2012-01-10-at-4.03.28-PM.png"><img src="http://allthingsd.com/files/2012/01/Screen-Shot-2012-01-10-at-4.03.28-PM-380x347.png" alt="" title="Screen Shot 2012-01-10 at 4.03.28 PM" width="380" height="347" class="alignright size-Medium380 wp-image-162617" /></a></p>
<p>Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha said his company plans to release fewer new models this year, in an effort to concentrate its marketing dollars.</p>
<p>&#8220;A lot of products that are roughly the same doesn’t drive the market to a new place,&#8221; Jha said on Tuesday in a roundtable meeting with reporters. Of course, it is an interesting statement from a company that released the Droid Bionic and Droid Razr in rapid succession, followed on Monday by the Droid Razr Maxx &#8212; a version of the Droid Razr with a bigger battery.</p>
<p>Jha noted that it was a delay in the Bionic that caused that product&#8217;s debut to be so close in timing to the Razr.</p>
<p>Asked whether he thinks Motorola would be better off if others also slowed their launches or if he prefers them to continue their current pace, Jha demurred.</p>
<p>&#8220;I made this decision independent of what the others will do,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We’re doing what we think is the right thing.&#8221;</p>
<p>Jha also said the company plans to pursue fewer new ideas in an effort to make more things stick. </p>
<p>The shift comes at a key time for Motorola, which is in the process of trying to sell itself to Google. The company also warned last week that <a href="http://allthingsd.com/20120106/motorola-mobility-warns-on-q4-earnings/">fourth-quarter sales would come in below</a> what most analysts had been expecting.</p>
<p>Last year the company introduced the notion of a lap dock in which phones could be plugged into a bigger screen and keyboard to perform many of the same tasks as a laptop. </p>
<p>Jha conceded that the product hasn&#8217;t been the commercial success it hoped nor did customers find it delivered the performance they were looking for.</p>
<p>However, Jha said that the company is making further refinements and still believes in the concept for the future.</p>
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<li><a href="http://allthingsd.com/20120106/coming-to-a-smartphone-near-you-gorilla-glass-2/">Coming to a Smartphone Near You: Gorilla Glass 2</a></li>
<li><a href="http://allthingsd.com/20120106/rim-hopes-next-playbook-os-will-impress-at-ces/">RIM Hopes Next PlayBook OS Will Impress at CES</a></li>
<li><a href="http://allthingsd.com/20120104/ultrabooks-the-ultra-fancy-new-name-for-laptops/">Ultrabooks, the Ultra-Fancy New Name for Laptops</a></li>
<li><a href="http://allthingsd.com/20111230/at-ces-expect-more-gadgets-telling-you-to-get-off-the-couch/">At CES, Expect More Gadgets Telling You to Get Off the Couch</a></li>
<li><a href="http://allthingsd.com/20111221/intel-to-detail-its-phone-plans-at-ces-next-month/">Intel to Detail Its Phone Plans at CES Next Month</a></li>
<li><a href="http://allthingsd.com/20111221/microsoft-pulling-out-of-ces-after-this-year/">Microsoft Pulling Out of CES After Upcoming Show</a></li>
<li><a href="http://allthingsd.com/20111221/intel-to-detail-its-phone-plans-at-ces-next-month/">Intel to Detail Its Phone Plans at CES Next Month</a></li>
<li><a href="http://allthingsd.com/20111130/dell-will-drop-the-flashy-vegas-act-for-ces-this-year/">Dell Will Drop the Flashy Vegas Act for CES This Year</a></li>
<li><a href="http://allthingsd.com/20111118/ultrabook-conga-line-preps-for-ces-2012/">Ultrabook Conga Line Preps for CES 2012</a></li>
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		<title>Apple Plays the Long Game Against Android, Aiming for a Big Pot</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:40:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Paczkowski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple has no intention of settling its Android patent suits quickly -- or cheaply.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://allthingsd.com/files/2011/09/chips1.png" alt="" title="chips1" width="319" height="240" class="alignright size-full wp-image-120729" />Think Apple&#8217;s broad legal battle against Android will end in a series of settlements? Think again. </p>
<p>The company&#8217;s in no hurry to resolve its legal claims against Android smartphone vendors like Samsung, HTC and Motorola, says Deutsche Bank&#8217;s Chris Whitmore. Instead, it&#8217;s likely holding out for a big payoff. </p>
<p>Which is a wise move, because in doing so Apple is undermining Android in a number of ways. The threat of litigation is obviously a deterrent &#8212; or at the very least, a consideration &#8212; to any handset manufacturer mulling Android as a potential OS for its devices. And for those OEM&#8217;s that have already been sued, it significantly raises the cost of supporting Android. </p>
<p>So realistically, expediency isn&#8217;t the game here. The longer these cases drag on, the better it is for Apple, especially if the company ends up prevailing in the end. Whitmore seems to believe it&#8217;s the likely outcome and figures Apple could end up collecting a fee of $10 for every Android device sold, which would add about $35 to its share price. And though less likely, if it wins outright and convinces a court to ban some Android handsets, the upside is even greater, as you can see in the chart below.</p>
<p><a href="http://allthingsd.com/files/2012/01/Android_Apple_patent_suits.png"><img src="http://allthingsd.com/files/2012/01/Android_Apple_patent_suits-380x247.png" alt="" title="Android_Apple_patent_suits" width="380" height="247" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-162491" /></a>&#8220;Although Apple has not expressed a desire to settle, most believe a settlement could occur resulting in a $10-per-unit software licensing fee,&#8221; Whitmore says. &#8220;&#8230; Beyond the monetary benefit to Apple, a settlement would make Android-based handsets incrementally more expensive and less competitive due to the higher OS cost and would likely support incremental iOS share gains vs. Android. &#8230; Given the upside potential associated with an outright win, we don’t expect Apple to settle anytime soon.&#8221;</p>
<p>Over at FOSS Patents, <a href="http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2012/01/financial-analyst-believes-patent.html">Florian Mueller takes issue with Whitmore&#8217;s $35-per-share figure</a>.</p>
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		<title>Interview: AT&amp;T's De La Vega on LTE, Tablets and Life After T-Mobile</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:08:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ina Fried</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The head of AT&#038;T's cellphone unit also explains why Motorola and Research In Motion were notably absent from the company's announcements on Monday.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://allthingsd.com/files/2012/01/ralph_de_la_vega.png" alt="" title="ralph_de_la_vega" width="379" height="285" class="alignright size-full wp-image-161722" />AT&#038;T had a busy year in 2011. It announced &#8212; and then dropped &#8212; plans to buy T-Mobile USA. It launched its first LTE service and saw increased iPhone competition from Verizon and Sprint.</p>
<p>The company kicked off 2012 by <a href="http://allthingsd.com/20120109/att-uses-vegas-stage-to-tout-lte-plans-nokia-phone/">announcing six new Android devices</a>, all running on LTE, as well as new LTE-capable Windows phones from HTC and Nokia. </p>
<p>Moments after he left the stage, AT&#038;T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega <a href="http://allthingsd.com/20120109/atts-de-la-vega-shared-data-plans-still-in-the-works/">sat down with <strong>AllThingsD</strong></a> to talk about a wide range of issues facing his company, various mobile device makers and the industry as a whole.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s an edited look at what he had to say.</p>
<p><strong>On the failure of the T-Mobile deal and where AT&#038;T goes from here:</strong></p>
<p>We&#8217;re very pleased that the FCC approved our purchase of the Qualcomm spectrum. We&#8217;ll be working to put that into play as quickly as possible. And we are always going to be on the lookout for new spectrum that comes on the market. We hope that the FCC also makes more spectrum available.</p>
<p>We&#8217;ve put that behind us and we are moving on to have a great 2012.</p>
<p><strong>On BlackBerry maker Research In Motion, which was notably missing from AT&#038;T&#8217;s announcement on Monday:</strong></p>
<p>BlackBerry has got some interesting things coming up. I&#8217;m encouraged by some of the things that I understand they are bringing to market.</p>
<p>BlackBerry has been a great partner and, you know, people love their devices. They love the keyboards. I think they are working on all of the things customers want. I am very pleased with, at least, the things that are on their roadmap. As soon as they can get them I think they are going to have a lot of customers knocking on their door.</p>
<p><strong>On Motorola, which was also absent from AT&#038;T&#8217;s Vegas announcements:</strong></p>
<p>They are going to have some exciting stuff. They are just not ready to announce them with us. It&#8217;s really early in the year.</p>
<p><strong>On Sony&#8217;s future in the smartphone market:</strong></p>
<p>As you know, they bought out the Ericsson interest. I think they are going to have a more focused approach and put what I call more &#8220;Sony-ness&#8221; into their smartphones. We&#8217;ve met with their team and I am very encouraged.</p>
<p><strong>On whether AT&#038;T will offer fewer tablets this year after so many iPad rivals failed to make a dent in the market:</strong></p>
<p>I think you are going to see us find models that have a particular differentiated approach to the tablet market. Obviously Apple sets the bar with the iPad, so Pantech is now looking at a very low-end device, still a great device, but I think that kind of distinction is what customers want.</p>
<p><strong>On why the 5.3-inch Samsung Galaxy Note might stand a chance:</strong></p>
<p>That&#8217;s the first hybrid device that tries to fill in a niche between a tablet and a smartphone. I&#8217;ve been using that device and it is, surprisingly, an amazing device. I didn&#8217;t understand whether we were going to be able to make that transition work, but you ought to try it. I think you will get hooked on it.</p>
<p>I think it is for somebody that wants to make it their primary device and doesn&#8217;t want to carry around a tablet as well. It&#8217;s surprisingly thin. It fits in your pocket.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s an iconic device. It&#8217;s exclusive to us. We&#8217;re going to put a lot of marketing effort behind it.</p>
<p><strong>On whether we will see LTE phones that work across multiple carriers even though the first devices don&#8217;t support that.</strong></p>
<p>The first ones are done that way because of technology limitations. How many antennas can you squeeze into one of those things? It&#8217;s the first generation. As the technology matures,  you will incorporate more bands into the devices. I think you will have as many bands as customers are going to want. It&#8217;s not inexpensive, but I think technology will allow us to do that at a reasonable price.</p>
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		<title>Motorola Mobility Says Holiday Quarter Wasn't So Jolly</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 22:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ina Fried</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The company, which is in the process of being acquired by Google, said its fourth-quarter sales were about $3.4 billion.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Motorola Mobility on Friday warned that fourth-quarter sales won&#8217;t be what many were expecting.</p>
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<p>The cellphone maker said it estimates its sales totaled $3.4 billion, and that it will post &#8220;modest profitability,&#8221; excluding various items. Motorola said it shipped about 10.5 million mobile devices in the quarter, just over half of which were smartphones.</p>
<p>While Motorola itself hadn&#8217;t given a forecast for the quarter, analysts were expecting sales to be a lot closer to $3.9 billion.</p>
<p>The company is in the process of trying to sell itself to Google. Motorola shareholders have approved the details, but it is still in the process of getting regulatory approval for the transaction.</p>
<p>&#8220;The company continues to work closely with Google to complete the proposed acquisition of Motorola Mobility as expeditiously as possible,&#8221; Motorola said in a statement. </p>
<p>Motorola said it still expects the deal to close &#8220;in early 2012,&#8221; but added the caveat that &#8220;it is possible that the failure to timely meet such conditions or other factors outside of the company&#8217;s control could delay or prevent completion of the transaction altogether.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>HTC Profit Falls 26 Percent Amid Stiffer Competition</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 19:33:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lorraine Luk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[HTC Corp. reported its first quarterly earnings decline in two years, as the Taiwan handset maker faced intensifying competition and slower demand for smartphones in a shaky global economy.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>HTC Corp. reported its first quarterly earnings decline in two years, as the Taiwan handset maker faced intensifying competition and slower demand for smartphones in a shaky global economy.</p>
<p>The company, which grabbed market share in the U.S. and Europe through its early adoption of Google Inc.&#8217;s Android platform for mobile phones, is being challenged in those key markets by Samsung Electronics Co., Apple Inc., Nokia Corp. and Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc., all of which have quickly expanded their premium smartphone offerings.</p>
<p><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203513604577144062605551278.html">Read the rest of this post on the original site »</a></p>
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		<title>Coming to a Smartphone Near You: Gorilla Glass 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren Goode</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Corning, maker of that super-thin, chemically-strengthened glass we swipe on our smartphones and tablets every day, is bringing Gorilla Glass 2 to CES next week.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Corning, maker of specialty glass that is used in many newer consumer electronics devices like mobile phones and tablets, will show off a new version of its super-thin, chemically-strengthened Gorilla Glass next week at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.</p>
<p><img src="http://allthingsd.com/files/2012/01/GorillaGlass-380x285.png" alt="" title="GorillaGlass" width="380" height="285" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-160725" /></p>
<p>Aside from the fact that this magic glass is being labeled Gorilla Glass 2, we don&#8217;t have many other details at this point. But in this <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43384144/#43831415">MSNBC.com video</a> from last year, Corning says the next big thing in glass will be a Gorilla Glass that can be formed into 3-D shapes so it can be used in products like keyboards and kitchen countertops. (The company also said at the start of 2011 that Gorilla Glass would be a $1 billion business; it later had to scale back that estimate.)</p>
<p>Corning says its Gorilla Glass is currently used in more than 575 product models across 30 major brands, totaling more than 500 million units worldwide.</p>
<p>Devices with Gorilla Glass displays include Motorola&#8217;s Xoom tablet, Nokia&#8217;s newer smartphones and Android smartphones (with the exception of the Galaxy Nexus).</p>
<p>While it&#8217;s unclear whether Apple&#8217;s latest iPhone and iPad displays are made using Corning&#8217;s Gorilla Glass, Walter Isaacson&#8217;s recently published biography of Steve Jobs includes an anecdote about how Jobs used his &#8220;reality distortion field&#8221; to get Corning to bring its specialty glass to market in time for the first iPhone launch.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, an IHS iSuppli <a href="http://allthingsd.com/20110318/58766/">teardown of the iPad 2</a> last year suggested that the device&#8217;s screen is made of Dragontrail Glass, manufactured by Japan&#8217;s Asahi Glass.</p>
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		<title>Christy Wyatt on How Motorola Plans to Stand Out From the Android Pack</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ina Fried</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The head of Motorola's Android business talks with AllThingsD about where Android gained and where it fell short in 2011, as well as what Motorola is doing as it waits to be acquired by Google.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Even as it prepares to be swallowed up by Google, Motorola Mobility is hardly standing still.</p>
<p>One of the key driving forces behind the company is Christy Wyatt, a former Palm and Apple executive, now corporate vice president and general manager<br />
for mobile devices at Motorola. In an interview earlier this month, Wyatt talked about how the company is trying to stand out in an increasingly crowded Android field.</p>
<p><a href="http://allthingsd.com/files/2011/12/ChristyWyatt.jpg"><img src="http://allthingsd.com/files/2011/12/ChristyWyatt-380x266.jpg" alt="" title="ChristyWyatt" width="380" height="266" class="alignright size-Medium380 wp-image-155655" /></a></p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a partial transcript of our interview:</p>
<p><strong>AllThingsD: Where do you see the opportunity to invest to make your Android devices better than others?</strong></p>
<p>Christy Wyatt: We’ve focused over the past year in four key areas. They’ve moved a little bit away from what I’d call aesthetics and focused more on user experience and performance.</p>
<p>The first is modality. You saw us earlier in the year launch our first Web-top platform with the lap dock. This is really the concept that your phone is really enough for you 80 or 90 percent, but sometimes &#8212; if you are writing a long article, for example &#8212; you are going to want a keyboard. That doesn’t mean you want a different device. You might want a different way of accessing the device you are already using. You don’t have to be carrying 52 cords and 52 chargers and multiple data plans.</p>
<p>The second one is this concept of &#8220;content anywhere.&#8221; We’re not a content company, per se. We don’t have a music store or a video store or a book store. We’ve really never gone down that path, because we believe the consumer has many viable paths for buying content already.</p>
<p>From a consumer’s perspective, I’m less interested in selling you yet another 99-cent song. I’m more interested in giving you an integrated view of where all your stuff is. When I say, &#8220;show me my music,&#8221; I mean all of my music, not just the stuff I bought from the store on that particular device.</p>
<p>We acquired a company, and we’ve launched a new experience, called MotoCast, which is essentially that streaming experience. </p>
<p>The third one is this concept of our device performance. It’s not okay if your battery runs out of power. It’s just not. You are too reliant on these products. Things like the smart actions and the smart rules and devices becoming more intelligent.</p>
<p><strong>What are smart actions? Because I don’t think a lot of people have heard of them.</strong></p>
<p>Sure. Smart actions are essentially your device is monitoring its own performance behavior. If it starts to notice there are things it could be doing better, it will make a gentle suggestion to the user. Something like, “I notice that your battery is running low, if you wanted to dim the screen and turn off a certain network setting then you will get better battery performance.” And, if you are open to it, &#8220;Would you like your phone to continue making those kind of suggestions?&#8221; For the consumer who is not really aware of things like battery-saver mode or Wi-Fi offloading, this is a very consumer-friendly way.</p>
<p>The fourth one is clearly around enterprise. Forty percent of mobile devices are going to work, in one way, shape or form. In order for Android to be fully participating in that community &#8212; there’s security, device management, data management, network management &#8212; there’s a variety of things we’ve built into the core Android platform for Motorola devices to make them business-ready.</p>
<p><strong>You are in charge of this enterprise business. Am I correct that the challenge has been getting Android accepted in the enterprise, more than Motorola losing out to, say, HTC?</strong></p>
<p>I think our focus has been less on the other Android venders. There’s a very strong device vendor already behind the firewall. Those users are looking for alternatives. We want to make sure Android is the first choice they think of when they go to move to another platform. Make no mistake, Motorola very much wants to sell devices and have the greatest market share behind the firewall, but we are very comfortable in our ability to compete and getting that done, provided Android is accepted behind the firewall.</p>
<p><strong>If I were to look at 2011, I’d say you had a bunch of interesting devices. But it wasn’t necessarily consistent throughout the year. You had some challenges with Bionic.</strong></p>
<p>If you were to ask us, we were very happy with the way we turned out in 2011. We spun out as a separate company. Motorola split into two companies. It was our first year on our own as a standalone mobility company. We had some fantastic product hits. </p>
<p>The bottom line is the mobile business is a hits business. There’s some that are blockbusters and there are some that are not. But, in general, I think we are very happy with where we ended up.</p>
<p><strong>I walked away from CES last year saying one of the most interesting things was the Atrix with the Web-top software and the lap dock. My sense was it was really innovative, and it wasn’t quite ready for primetime, in terms of some of the experience characteristics. Are we going to see a lot of people carrying these things in 2012?</strong></p>
<p>I think it was a very bold move for us to introduce this concept of modality and really shoot for this device, this processor, this connection being the primary connection in your life. I do think you are going to see us continue to go down that path. That can take many forms.</p>
<p>You are going to start to see individuals use multiple screens, and using similar connections and similar experiences across multiple screens.</p>
<p><strong>If you look back at the year, where are some of the things where Android moved furthest, and what do you think are some of the things still on the to-do list as an ecosystem?</strong></p>
<p>I think on both of those lists would be the tablets.</p>
<p>Especially with the Xyboards and some of the tablets, we&#8217;re seeing products that are thinner, sexier for the consumer &#8230; are more ready for business. As you start to see what is coming out with Ice Cream Sandwich, you start to see some evolution in the user experience.</p>
<p>I think tablets have come a long, long way. Adoption of Android tablets in the broad consumer sense, and especially with enterprise users, is still something we would like to focus on for the next year.</p>
<p>A lot of that has to do with the application ecosystem, making sure we have the applications that we need. Ice Cream Sandwich goes a long way to unify the developer communities across screens.</p>
<p><strong>Do you think there will be fewer stronger competitors in that space? We&#8217;ve seen everyone who has ever made a phone and everyone who has made a PC say, &#8220;Let&#8217;s make an Android tablet.&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>That clearly had an effect on the Android market. It was instantly flooded. That ended up creating a lot of consumer confusion.</p>
<p>At the end of the day, there are certain brands that consumers trust. If you are looking for the low-cost leader, you are going to look for the low-cost leader and you are going to find that in a variety of different places. That&#8217;s generally not where you find us. People tend to go to the Motorola brand where they are looking for a brand that they trust for reliability, for quality.</p>
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		<title>Before Google Deal Closes, Motorola Buys Video Guide Start-Up SetJam</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 17:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Kafka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Motorola Mobility, which is supposed be acquired by Google, has made bought a company in the meantime: The mobile handset maker has picked up SetJam, a small New York-based company that provides online video listings and data. SetJam originally positioned itself as a consumer-facing Web site, but appears to have pivoted to a B2B service; former SetJam CEO Ryan Janssen announced the deal via email.]]></description>
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		<title>ITC Initial Ruling: Motorola Infringes Single Microsoft Patent, but Not Six Others</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:12:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ina Fried</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ITC issued an interim finding that certain Motorola products infringe on one of Redmond's patents. However, it also found no infringement of six other Microsoft patents.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Microsoft won a partial victory in its patent dispute with Motorola, as the International Trade Commission issued an initial ruling that certain Motorola products infringe on one of the software maker&#8217;s patents. However, the same administrative law judge found no infringement of six other patents that Microsoft had claimed infringed on its intellectual property.</p>
<p><a href="http://allthingsd.com/files/2011/12/Screen-Shot-2011-12-20-at-2.32.56-PM.png"><img src="http://allthingsd.com/files/2011/12/Screen-Shot-2011-12-20-at-2.32.56-PM.png" alt="" title="Screen Shot 2011-12-20 at 2.32.56 PM" width="154" height="132" class="alignright size-full wp-image-155593" /></a></p>
<p>“We are pleased with the ITC’s initial determination finding Motorola violated four claims of a Microsoft patent,&#8221; Microsoft Deputy General Counsel David Howard said in a statement. &#8220;As Samsung, HTC, Acer and other companies have recognized, respecting others’ intellectual property through licensing is the right path forward.”</p>
<p>Tuesday&#8217;s ruling by an administrative law judge is one step in the process. The trade commission itself will now review the finding and issue a final ruling, at which time it will decide whether to ban the import of any Motorola products.</p>
<p>The ruling follows a separate decision on Monday by the commission that certain HTC phones infringe on an Apple patent. In that decision, a final ruling by the commission (though still subject to court appeal) ordered that HTC products using the infringing technology be banned for import, as of April. HTC has said it plans to drop the feature in dispute.</p>
<p>Both cases are among a growing docket of patent disputes involving much of the mobile industry. A key issue for the industry is whether Google&#8217;s freely available Android operating system infringes on patents held by Microsoft, Apple, Oracle and others.</p>
<p><strong>Update</strong>: In an interview, Motorola General Counsel Scott Offer said the company is pleased with Tuesday&#8217;s ruling.</p>
<p>&#8220;We view it as a huge win for us,&#8221; Offer told <strong>AllThingsD</strong>. &#8220;They had, originally, nine patents in their first case. They are down to one patent, effectively.&#8221;</p>
<p>As to that one patent, Offer said that it relates to how mobile devices process meeting requests via email.</p>
<p>&#8220;We are reviewing our options on that,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Tuesday&#8217;s decision now goes before the full commission, which typically issues its ruling within two months, though that can be extended, as was the case with Apple and HTC.</p>
<p>For now, Offer said, Motorola wants to keep the focus on its products rather than the court battle.</p>
<p>&#8220;We feel we&#8217;ve got great products and we are focused on our product portfolio.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Weekend Update: Al Franken Still Not Happy About Carrier IQ</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 00:24:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ina Fried</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Minnesota senator said he remains troubled about the carrier-installed monitoring software even after reviewing responses from its maker, carriers and phone manufacturers.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Senator Al Franken says he is still concerned about the use of <a href="http://allthingsd.com/20111201/carrier-iq-improves-my-wireless-service-by-logging-my-keystrokes-please-explain/?mod=snippet">software from Carrier IQ</a> even after reviewing materials sent to him by device makers and wireless carriers.</p>
<p><a href="http://allthingsd.com/files/2011/12/Franken-Weekend-Update.png"><img src="http://allthingsd.com/files/2011/12/Franken-Weekend-Update-380x254.png" alt="" title="Franken Weekend Update" width="380" height="254" class="alignright size-Medium380 wp-image-154812" /></a></p>
<p>&#8220;People have a fundamental right to control their private information,&#8221; Franken said in a <a href="http://franken.senate.gov/?p=press_release&#038;id=1891">statement posted to his Web site</a>. &#8220;After reading the companies&#8217; responses, I&#8217;m still concerned that this right is not being respected.&#8221;</p>
<p>Franken said he is concerned that the average user of a phone running Carrier IQ&#8217;s software has no idea what information is being collected and who is getting it, or even the fact the software is running at all.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m also bothered by the software&#8217;s ability to capture the contents of our online searches &#8212; even when users wish to encrypt them,&#8221; Franken said. &#8220;So there are still many questions to be answered here and things that need to be fixed.&#8221;</p>
<p>In addition to his statements, Franken&#8217;s office also released the responses from Carrier IQ, AT&#038;T, Sprint, Samsung, and HTC. The senator says he still hopes to hear from T-Mobile and Motorola by Tuesday.</p>
<p>Sprint, for example, said it began installing the software on devices in 2006 and has put it on about 26 million devices, though only 5 percent of those phones are being asked to send data at any given time. AT&#038;T said the software is installed on about 1 percent of its devices, or 900,000 phones, with 575,000 of those reporting data at any given time.</p>
<p>The carrier noted it has not used the software to profile customers or deliver ads but only to certify devices prior to launch and to review performance of the device and network after launch.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s a lot of other interesting bits of data in the response letters, each of which is posted as a PDF on Franken&#8217;s site.</p>
<p>Carrier IQ, which sent a response letter to Franken, has also tried to clear the air <a href="http://allthingsd.com/20111213/carrier-iq-gets-transparent-about-its-mobile-monitoring/">in interviews</a> and <a href="http://allthingsd.com/20111214/carrier-iq-we-volunteered-to-be-grilled-by-the-feds/">in meetings</a> with both the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Communications Commission.</p>
<p><strong>Update:</strong> Sprint said on Friday that it has decided to stop collecting data using the software.</p>
<p>&#8220;We have weighed customer concerns and we have disabled use of the tool so that diagnostic information and data is no longer being collected,&#8221; Sprint said in a statement. &#8220;At Sprint, we work hard to earn the trust of our customers and believe this course of action is in the best interest of our business and customers.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Google Working to Address Europe's Concerns About Motorola Mobility Deal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:05:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ina Fried</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You'd think European Union officials might have other things to worry about, but ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://allthingsd.com/files/2011/08/motorola-android-150x150.png" alt="" title="motorola-android" width="150" height="150" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-109934" />Google confirmed on Monday that the European Union has asked the company for more information as it reviews the search giant&#8217;s <a href="http://allthingsd.com/20110815/gulp-google-buying-motorola-mobility-for-12-5-billion/">plans to acquire Motorola Mobility</a>.</p>
<p>The company characterized the request as routine and shrugged off the notion the <a href="http://allthingsd.com/20110817/googorola-triumphs-in-snarky-nickname-poll-over-12-5b-bid/">deal</a> could be blocked.</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re confident the Commission will conclude that this acquisition is good for competition and we&#8217;ll be working closely and cooperatively with them as they continue their review,&#8221; Google said in a statement to<strong> AllThingsD</strong>.</p>
<p>Motorola shareholders have <a href="http://allthingsd.com/20111117/motorola-mobility-shareholders-approve-acquisition-by-google-regulatory-approval-last-hurdle/">already approved selling to Google</a>, though the transaction awaits antitrust approvals in the United States, EU and elsewhere.</p>
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		<title>An iPhone Rival, Not on Price</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 01:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Bensinger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Verizon Wireless is betting customers are willing to pay extra for its network quality and high-speed mobile broadband network, with a growing slate of smartphones priced at $299.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Verizon Wireless is betting customers are willing to pay extra for its network quality and high-speed mobile broadband network, with a growing slate of smartphones priced at $299.</p>
<p>The latest addition is Samsung Electronics Co.&#8217;s Galaxy Nexus, which will start selling this month for $299, or $100 more than the entry level iPhone 4S. The Galaxy Nexus follows the introduction of HTC Corp.&#8217;s Rezound and Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc.&#8217;s Droid Razr, both cost $299 with a two-year service contract.</p>
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		<title>Feds Formally Bless Google's $400 Million Admeld Deal</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:56:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Kafka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Department of Justice has formally approved Google's $400 million Admeld deal without conditions. We told you about this on Monday. Next up for Google: Trying to get that $12.5 billion Motorola deal clear.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The <a href="http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2011/December/11-at-1567.html">Department of Justice</a> has <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/take-walk-on-sell-side.html">formally approved Google&#8217;s $400 million Admeld deal</a> without conditions. <a href="http://allthingsd.com/20111128/google-looks-forward-to-an-early-christmas-present-from-washington-an-okay-for-admeld/">We told you about this on Monday</a>. Next up for Google: Trying to get that $12.5 billion Motorola deal clear.</p>
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		<title>QOTD: Faint Praise for Googorola, More for Google</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Kafka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We still view GOOG’s acquisition of the football coaching headphone equipment company as highly risky, but given signs that Amazon &#038; Facebook may also enter the Smartphone market, GOOG’s move isn’t unprecedented. &#8211; Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney, who is upgrading his Google rating to &#8220;buy&#8221; from &#8220;neutral,&#8221; despite his lack of enthusiasm for the $12.5 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p> We still view GOOG’s acquisition of the football coaching headphone equipment company as highly risky, but given signs that Amazon &#038; Facebook may also enter the Smartphone market, GOOG’s move isn’t unprecedented.</p></blockquote>
<p class="attribution">&#8211; Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney, who is upgrading his Google rating to &#8220;buy&#8221; from &#8220;neutral,&#8221; despite his <a href="http://www.motorola.com/Business/US-EN/Business+Product+and+Services/Accessories/Two-Way+Radio+Accessories/Audio+Accessories/Headsets/Heavy+Duty+Headsets/RMN5047A_US-EN">lack of enthusiasm</a> for the <a href="http://allthingsd.com/20110817/googorola-triumphs-in-snarky-nickname-poll-over-12-5b-bid/">$12.5 billion Motorola deal</a>. On the bright side, he adds, if regulators approve the purchase next year, it will &#8220;still provide GOOG with patent support, &#038; it’s an accretive deal.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Motorola Mobility Shareholders Approve Acquisition by Google</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 01:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ina Fried</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The company said it now expects the deal won't close before early next year, as it works to complete various regulatory requirements.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Motorola Mobility said late on Thursday that 99 percent of shares, voting at a special meeting earlier in the day, were in favor of the company&#8217;s deal to <a href="http://allthingsd.com/20110815/gulp-google-buying-motorola-mobility-for-12-5-billion/">be acquired by Google</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://allthingsd.com/files/2011/11/Motorola-logo.png"><img src="http://allthingsd.com/files/2011/11/Motorola-logo-380x257.png" alt="" title="Motorola logo" width="380" height="257" class="alignright size-Medium380 wp-image-145496" /></a></p>
<p>The company said it is working quickly to complete the deal but, given regulatory filings and <a href="http://allthingsd.com/20110928/feds-taking-close-look-at-google-motorola-deal/">other approvals still needed</a>, it will probably be early 2012 before the deal can close. Motorola had said earlier that the deal should close late this year or early next year.</p>
<p>Google is paying $40 per share, or a total of $12.5 billion, for the company.</p>
<p>&#8220;We are pleased and gratified by the strong support we have received from our stockholders, with more than 99 percent of the voting shares voting in support of the transaction,&#8221; CEO Sanjay Jha said in a statement. &#8220;We look forward to working with Google to realize the significant value this combination will bring to our stockholders and all the new opportunities it will provide our dedicated employees, customers, and partners.&#8221;</p>
<p>Last month, the company said in a filing that it was <a href="http://allthingsd.com/20111031/motorola-mobility-sacks-800/">cutting 5 percent of its workforce</a>.</p>
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		<title>Google Android Head Andy Rubin on Steve Jobs, Google Music and Moto: The Full AsiaD Interview (Video)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kara Swisher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We're posting the full videos from the recent AsiaD conference, starting with the opening-night speaker, Walt Mossberg's interview with Google Android head Andy Rubin.]]></description>
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<p>Today, we start posting the full videos from the recent <a href="http://allthingsd.com/category/asiad/"><strong>AsiaD</strong></a> conference, which took place in Hong Kong earlier in October.</p>
<p>Over the next two weeks, we&#8217;re going to follow the schedule of the actual event, starting with the opening-night speaker, Google Android head <a href="http://allthingsd.com/20111019/andy-rubin-asiad/">Andy Rubin</a>.</p>
<p>In this wide-ranging onstage interview with Walt Mossberg, Rubin talks about an array of mobile topics, including: Ice Cream Sandwich, which is Android 4.0; Google&#8217;s launch of the new Galaxy Nexus, the next-generation lead device, with its partner Samsung; Google&#8217;s upcoming music store; the integration to its pending acquisition of Motorola; and the impact of Apple&#8217;s Steve Jobs on technology.</p>
<p>And there&#8217;s a lot more from Rubin, so click away:</p>
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		<title>Siri Co-Founder Kittlaus Departs From Apple</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 06:17:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kara Swisher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Siri, is it true that one of your creators left the building at Apple? Yes, sigh, Dag.]]></description>
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<p>Dag Kittlaus &#8212; the co-founder and CEO of the company that created the Siri voice control feature, which Apple launched to <a href="http://allthingsd.com/20111011/the-iphone-finds-its-voice/">much acclaim</a> recently &#8212; has left the company, according to sources.</p>
<p>There were several reasons for the departure, which was amicable and has been planned for a while, sources said. They included Kittlaus&#8217;s family being in Chicago, a desire to take time off and an interest in brainstorming new entrepreneurial ideas.</p>
<p>Kittlaus has led the speech recognition efforts for Apple since <a href="http://allthingsd.com/20100428/apple-snags-siri/">Apple bought Siri in April of 2010</a>. He had been Siri&#8217;s CEO since 2007. Before that, the Norwegian-born Kittlaus was an Entrepreneur in Residence at the Stanford Research Institute and had also worked at Motorola.</p>
<p>Kittlaus apparently left just after the launch of the iPhone 4S, in which Siri&#8217;s speech recognition technology was the highlight, but sources said other key execs from Siri are expected to remain at Apple.</p>
<p>I have queried Apple PR and am waiting for a response.</p>
<p>Here is a <a href="http://allthingsd.com/20090528/d7-video-highlights-ceo-dag-kittlaus-of-siri/">video of Kittlaus demoing Siri</a> at the seventh <strong>D: All Things Digital</strong> conference in 2009:</p>
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		<title>Google's Rubin Says Ice Cream Sandwich Is Filled With "Butter"</title>
		<link>http://allthingsd.com/20111019/googles-rubin-says-ice-cream-sandwich-is-filled-with-butter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:17:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ina Fried</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an interview after his onstage appearance at AsiaD, Google's mobile chief talks about Android's new look as well as its future on screens of all sizes.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It turns out that ice cream isn&#8217;t the only dairy product the Android team has been working on. </p>
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<p>The big focus with the new version of Android was on improving the user interface, Google&#8217;s mobile chief Andy Rubin said in an interview on Wednesday. That interface, which builds on the holographic look that debuted with Honeycomb, was designed to be like butter.</p>
<p>&#8220;We want everything to be smooth as butter,&#8221; Rubin said. In addition to the new look, Rubin said the software includes all kinds of other features, from being able to control music from the lock screen to allowing developers to tap the phone&#8217;s graphic processor for image-intensive tasks.</p>
<p>The other big goal of Android 4.0, of course, was to unify the tablet and phone versions of the operating system. Google offered the first look at Ice Cream Sandwich on Wednesday at <a href="http://allthingsd.com/20111018/liveblog-of-the-the-google-samsung-ice-cream-sandwich-unwrapping/">an event with Samsung</a>, where the two companies announced the Galaxy Nexus, which will be the first device running the new software. Other devices will follow within weeks after that one, Rubin said.</p>
<p>While Andy Rubin is most focused on getting Android running on as many phones, TVs and tablets as possible, he sees opportunities well beyond that.</p>
<p>Already, he notes, the operating system has spread to watches from Motorola and car dashboards from Mercedes.</p>
<p>&#8220;Tell me what screen Android shouldn’t be on,&#8221; Rubin said, speaking to <strong>AllThingsD</strong> just after he <a href="http://allthingsd.com/20111019/andy-rubin-asiad/">finished his onstage appearance at <strong>AsiaD</strong></a> in Hong Kong.</p>
<p>Virtually any screen can be better if it is running Android, he insists. There are actually only two screens where Rubin says he doesn&#8217;t want to see Android: Nuclear reactors and weapons systems. (And the licensing terms already prohibit those, he notes.)</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll have more from my interview with Rubin, including his thoughts on Apple&#8217;s Siri, in a follow-up post shortly.</p>
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