Google Is Now a Hardware Company(Officially) !!!

Last August, Google  Chief Executive Officer Larry Page fulfilled a pledge made to one of his senior executives, a square-jawed former attorney named Dennis Woodside. Apple CEO Tim Cook had been trying to poach Woodside to make him Apple’s head of sales; Google had persuaded him to stay, in part by promising him a bigger job, according to two people with knowledge of the matter, but who asked not to be named because the discussions were private. Now it was time to make good.


Woodside says he was speaking with board member K. Ram Shriram when Page asked him to run Motorola Mobility, the company Google had just announced it was acquiring for $12.5 billion. “He said, ‘I know you’ve been looking for a challenge,’ ” Woodside recalls. “ ‘I want you to run Motorola. I think you’d be great at it. Can you let me know by tonight?’ ”

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Android vs iOS vs BlackBerry

As the holiday season approaches, smartphones and tablets are some of the most in-demand items for anyone with even a hint of gadget love in their DNA. Coverage of these exciting new tools is full of hype about new features and also new fears.

With the sheer volume of marketing and fear being thrown around--eclipsing even the number of holiday songs on the radio--it can be hard for even well-informed users to discern meaning from marketing when it comes to security on mobile devices.

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Idea Lunches Some Cheap 3G Android Smart Phones !!!

Leading GDM operator Idea Cellular on Wednesday launched 3G Android smartphones to attract its existing 2G users to its 3G services.

“These smartphones will further drive our existing 3G services. Users will now be able to access the Internet through these devices. We are also studying if we should enter the 3G tablet market. But we have not taken any decision on it,” Idea Cellular MD Himanshu Kapania said.

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