Newscast for Aug 25th 2011
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- Google buys Motorola Mobility for $12.5bn, an estimated 63% premium over the stock price at the time of purchase.
- http://www.bgr.com/2011/08/15/google-to-acquire-motorola-mobility-for-12-5-billion/
- http://www.bgr.com/2011/08/15/google-ceo-larry-page-explains-reasoning-behind-motorola-acquisition-spoiler-patents/
- http://www.google.com/press/motorola/quotes/
- http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/when-patents-attack-android.html
- http://mashable.com/2011/08/16/google-motorola-poll/
- http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/google-joins-microsoft-motorola-patent-dispute/?cs=48269
- http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/17/2142203/Judge-Dismisses-Googles-Complaint-Over-Android-Code-Viewing
- http://gigaom.com/2011/08/12/ubuntus-shuttleworth-patents-misunderstood-misused-outdated/
- http://thisismynext.com/2011/08/11/broken-patent-system/
- http://martinfowler.com/bliki/SoftwarePatent.html
- HP pulls TouchPad after only 7 weeks, offers refunds to existing customers, but is WebOS dead?
Quick News
- The JCertif conference is fast approaching.
Android
- A new report from security firm McAfee says that malware targeting android devices jumped 22% in the first half of this year.
- Google is halting their own development of App-Inventor for Android and releasing it as open source.
- Android tablets managed to dent the Apple iPad market share by 20% over the past 12 months in aggregate across all Android tablets, but no single tablet vendor has stood out as a challenger to Apple.
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Random Crap
- The new beta 14 of Google's Chrome browser now incorporates support for native clients.
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- Opening - "Java" the parody song Copyright 1997 Broken Records and Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI),
- written and performed by Loose Bruce Kerr of the Dr. Demento Show and Sun Microsystems attorney.
- Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad.
- Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr - http://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX0gJt-aZg
- Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
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