Motorola: an announcement the same day as Nokia

This seems to be the current trend among manufacturers of smartphones. This result, however, a very unfortunate: there may be traffic jams.

We already knew that Nokia intends to present its range Windows Phone 8 on September 5. The Finnish company will not be alone. The same day, Verizon and Motorola will hold a press event in New York.

The two companies did not provide further details on the subject of this conference. However, many rely on a RAZR HD presentation. The rumors about this model are indeed more numerous in recent days. It will be recalled that Apple will present its new iPhone on September 12.

To return to the high-end smartphone from Motorola, Qualcomm Snapdragon processor embarks S4 dual-core 1.5 GHz, a microSD slot, an 8 megapixel camera on the back cover and battery (to rival owners of iPhone) of 2530mAh. HD screen has a definition 720 * 1080. Finally, it was nice to belong to Google; the RAZR HD is not supplied with Jelly Bean, but with Ice Cream Sandwich.

Intellectual property: to better understand the judicial review of Apple - I

Motorola v Apple, Samsung v Apple v Apple HTC, Apple and others v: the small world of mobile computing uses the courts as others used the playground, is castagna to outdo, until sometimes to forget the reason for the dispute. Patents, registered designs, injunctions, appeals, motions, etc.. : Jargon sometimes prevents a clear understanding of these cases. We offer a development summary.

Google buys Motorola

Surprise of the day: Google has opened its wallet to afford Motorola Mobility for $ 12.5 billion. Motorola in January had been split into two groups, acquired by Google consists primarily of business phones and tablets. The statement signed by Larry Page, Google CEO says Android will remain free and independent of Motorola. This acquisition is seen as a way to strengthen the position of Android and enhance competition in the sector. The choice of Motorola makes sense: it is an American company that makes only smartphones and only bet on Android in 2008.

Flash 10.2 Android arrives today

Announced in early February after its release on Mac and PC, Flash 10.2 shall be offered for download today via its Android Market or updates OTA. This book is written for Android 2.2 (Froyo), 2.3 (Gingerbread) as well as some users already blessed Android 3.0 (Honeycomb).

In the latter case, it is still a beta and the audience is smaller - even if that geographically - as consisting of Xoom customers. The tablet Motorola will simultaneously receive its first revision system 3.0.1. More will follow before Flash 10.2 do it is proposed final version.

This new Flash Androphones provides video acceleration on H264, but only for Honeycomb. Another novelty reserved for shelves next Android 3.0, an improved browser integration, resulting in navigation and view more smoothly pages. Flash content embedded in Web pages should be better supported as well.

More generally, the performance should be slightly up on today's mobile. Flash applications and data on the PC that used to be used with a physical keyboard can be better managed on devices that offer a virtual keyboard. It will be displayed, for example automatically by the application when necessary. Adobe maintains a list of compatible devices with Flash.

The appearance of the PowerBook

The idea of granting licenses to expand production of Macs was abandoned by the new CEO (Michael Spindler, who was appointed in June 1993). In 1991, the PowerBook first appeared. It was a great success. Apple then began to study the Personal Assistants, who later would lead to the release of the Newton in August 1993. The handwriting recognition system, not very developed, does not provide a very favorable opinion of the users. In 1994, the Power Mac first arrived.

These machines, using a processor developed by the joint powers of IBM and Motorola, proved well able to compete and surpass the speeds of the latest Pentium processors. Besides this, licenses were granted to some companies to build Mac clones turning MacOS (Power Computing, Umax ...), but this opening was not sufficient to address the backlog of trade policy from Apple. In addition, the release of Windows 95 did not help things. In January 1996, while Apple crossed its biggest crisis, the Performance machines, low cost, was another failure, and Spindler was forced to resign. Gil Amelio replaced him.