Posts tagged with Google
Google completes Motorola acquisition, replaces Sanjay Jha with Dennis Woodwide
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Google today announced via a blog post that it has finalized the $12.5 billion buy-out of Motorola Mobility. Company also stated that CEO Sanjay Jha will be replaced by Googler Dennis Woodside.
China approves Google-Motorola deal
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A long standing hurdle in Google’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility is finally gone, as China approved the deal. However authorities did put a condition before Google that Android should remain open to all for the next five years; which shouldn’t be a problem if Google has planned to remain fair to other hardware partners.
Google starts selling Galaxy Nexus on Google Play store in US
It is one of those days, when I envy the Android fans in United States, the reason? Well, Google has re-opened its online store to sell Galaxy Nexus directly to consumers in the country.
The search giant is currently offering three versions of the smartphone to consumers – Unlocked, with Verizon and with Sprint. While the unlocked version has been priced at USD 399.99 (yes!), the contract versions will cost USD199.99 with a two-year commitment.
This is the second-time, Google is trying to directly sell a Nexus smartphone to consumers, the first attempt with Nexus One in 2010 was a big flop. We hope company has fixed the service and other issues this time and consumers are not disappointed with their purchase from Google store.
The Galaxy Nexus can now be grabbed by the US consumers from the devices section in Google Play store. As this section is called ‘devices’, it looks like we are going to see more such smartphones and tablets on sale in the coming days.
For those, who have been living in a cave, Galaxy Nexus is the company reference smartphone for the Ice Cream Sandwich release of Android and comes with a 1.2GHz dual core processor, 1GB RAM, Android 4.0.4, 16GB of internal storage, NFC and 5MP rear camera.
Say hello to rAndy, the new CyanogenMOD mascot, by Caio Alves!
It appears as though the face of CyanogenMOD has permanently changed. A while back, the CM team asked the community for submissions of their own homemade mascots. The submissions would then be reviewed and voted on by the team and the selected winner would be chosen to represent the custom ROM project from here out.
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Gingerbread still the most dominant Android flavor; ICS on less than 3% of devices
While Google has time and time again said that it plans to iron out fragmentation in the Android ecosystem, the numbers tell an obviously and entirely different tale. According to statistics from Android’s Platform Versions dashboard that were detailed in a report by Engadget, Android 4.0 — or as most of you know it, Ice Cream Sandwich — is only installed on a whopping 2.9% of all devices.
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Google ready to pay Oracle for Java patents
According to a Reuters report, Google has stated that it is ready to pay Oracle for its patents, but latter has dubbed its proposed sum as too low.
This report is coming from the court filings of the on-going legal battle between the two firms over the use Java patents in Android.
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Asus made Google tablet to launch in May – Digitimes
Some reports suggest that a variant of Asus Eee Pad memo 370T might be launched as Google tablet.
Rumor king Digitimes is back with another report related to alleged Asus-Google tablet. Publication states that this co-branded tablet could debut as early as May. Obviously there is no confirmation and all this is coming from anonymous industry sources, so take it with a pinch of salt.
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Google automatically syncs local search results from PC to smartphones
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Google has released a new nifty feature for iPhone and Android search pages that is intended to help you on the go. Next time when you search for local information on your PC, it will automatically appear under recent icon on Google search page on your Android or iPhone.
MIT App Inventor beta goes live for public
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After Google closed down App Inventor at its end and gave the project to MIT, it is available for public use for the first time. Still in beta, MIT App Inventor has already gone through two phases of testing and the current public beta will help in cleaning up rest of the bugs.
Android Market adds more app stats for publishers
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If you were wishing for more stats related to your Android Market app, then you wish has come true and Google has revamped the app stats in Market Dev Console. Company has pushed a major update yesterday, adding new metrics, new ways to analyze your data, and a redesigned UI that’s much easier to use.
