Rumors are abuzz that Nikesh Arora, Google’s SVP and Chief Business Officer, will run Motorola once the Google-Motorola deal closes later this year. A report by Business Insider claims that Arora who has been running the company’s international business for Eric Schmidt and who also took over the global business later when Schmidt stepped down, is thought to have been “agitating” for a CEO role. He was recently included in a carefully scrutinized list of candidates to run Yahoo. There&...

HTC has always been juggernaut in terms of releasing smartphones, but often we have seen most of the new releases have been iterative products rather than groundbreaking flagship products. Clearly this trend of releasing iterative products is starting to take toll on HTC as it December quarter figures are down by 26 percent. Now comes a report that HTC is finally giving in and will focus on limited high spec, high margin products. In an interview to Mobile Today Magazine, HTC’s UK chief Phil Robertson state...

Samsung has officially announced that the company hasn’t made any decision on the Samsung Bada and Intel’s Tizen merger yet. This statement comes three days after when Tae-Jin Kang, senior VP for Samsung’s Contents Planning team had told Forbes that the Bada and the Tizen merger was already underway. However, the company has now officially mentioned that it is looking at this merger “as an option.” Now when this term option comes in, we are instantly reminded of Google’s acquis...

A guide has been released by the NFC Forum and the Bluetooth Special Interest Group that describes at length the procedures required to pair Bluetooth devices with the help of NFC technology. The Bluetooth Secure Simple Pairing Using NFC guide is free for a download from here and also points out how NFC technology can be used to pair smartphones with vehicles/pedometers. It also mentions how this tech can be used in future to control television sets with smartphones. Continue reading…. (more…)Goog...

Just after 10 days of the Motorola RAZR launch in India, we are hearing of an unannounced smartphone belonging to the RAZR family. Folks at Pocketnow have spotted an unknown Motorola device codenamed as the Droid RAZRMAX. According to them, this handset would be a few inches thicker than the 7.1mm thin RAZR and probably might sport a battery with a larger capacity. While the RAZR’s battery survives through a day, the RAZRMAX due its larger battery may push the limits a bit further and might last more th...

Motorola Mobility today announced that approximately 99 percent of their stockholders voted to approve the proposed merger with Google, a step forward in the completion of the merger. The two companies, Motorola Mobility and Google, entered into a definitive agreement back in August where Google had acquired Motorola Mobility for $40 per share in cash (for a total sum of $12.5 billion). It was also previously mentioned that the proposed merger was set to close by the end of this year. While the companies cont...

Well news has it that Motorola’s Xoom 2 tablets are going to be approximately 9mm thin (0.2 mm thicker than the iPad 2). While one tablet will feature a 10.1-inch display, the other will sport a slightly smaller display size at 8.2-inches. Both the tablets share a common codename ‘Fleming’, will also house a 5.0 MP camera at the rear and will most likely be based on Android Gingerbread.ReadGoogle+

Seems like HTC and Vodafone are not the only ones who think that plonking a Facebook button on the bottom of a QWERTY keypad is a great idea. Motorola, too, will be launching a phone with ‘easy access’ to Facebook with a dedicated button, according to a document found on the Bluetooth SIG database. The Motorola EX225 will come in single-SIM and dual-SIM variants, have a 2.47-inch TFT LCD display and a 3.0 MP camera. It will be 3G enabled and is likely to have a Facebook optimized UI.ReadGoogle+

As promised, Motorola has released its Xoom tablet in the Indian market. The tablet, which was officially the first to run Android 3.0 (Honeycomb, the flavour of Android Google had specially brewed for tablets), arrives in two variants – a Wi-Fi one for Rs 32,990 (MRP: Rs 34,490) and a 3G one for Rs 39,990 (MRP: Rs 41,490). Both have 32 GB storage (no other storage variants, as of now), pack in a powerful 1 GHz dual core processor, 1 GB RAM, 10.1 inch displays, and battery lives that are expected to ran...

Less than a week after it announced that the price of the original iPad would be slashed from $499 (for the 16GB, Wi-Fi only version) to $399, Apple has cut the prices of the iPad in India. This is significant because the tablet hit the country officially barely a month ago. While previously the iPad’s pricing in India had started from Rs 27,990, it now has come down to Rs 24,500, a fall of about 12.47%,  bringing it well below the Rs 25,000 barrier and actually bang into high-end smartphone and netboo...