Former Apple employee Phil Kearney who worked on the AirPort Extreme, AirPort Express and Time Capsule at Google just wrote an article on Gizmodo about the potential of Google buying Palm. The underlying motive? Acquisition of patents: So what could motivate Apple to want to sue HTC? Im in agreement with those who theorize

Bad news for Palm in it's third quarter fiscal year earnings released yesterday. The reported net loss of $22 million is an fairly large improvement over the $98 million reported during Q3 of 2009. In terms of total revenue, Palm's has increased $90.6 million from the same quarter in 2009, up to $349 million. Despite the rather large improvement over their sales in 2009 it hasn't be...

Found under: Google, Trademark, Nexus One, , In case you were not aware of it Google has filed for the trademark acquisition of Nexus One on December 10 2009 but unfortunately for the Mountain View based company did not receive the go ahead for said trademark.Why you ask Well it looks like Nexus has been already trademarked in 2008 by Integra Telecom which means that Google wont at least for now b...

Lending further credence to the perspective that 2010 could prove the year of acquisitions in the mobile space, Yahoo has announced plans to acquire social networking solutions provider Citizen Sports. Citizen Sports has developed a successful company widely recognized for creating sports-centric mobile apps that link fans via social networking platforms. As a result, millions around

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It looks like Google (NSDQ: GOOG)s attempt to trademark the Nexus One name has been denied. The acquisition was filed on December 10th of last year, and Nothing has come from it yet. Oh, wait, a refusal did. Right. Nexus has already been trademarked. It was granted in late 2008 to Integra Telecom (who  in the ...

While we all wait patiently for Apple to concoct its own subscription-based, unlimited music streaming service (hello, Lala acquisition!), MOG is jumping on the opportunity right away. Er, almost right away. Down in Austin this week, the company announced that an iPhone and Android app would be out "in early Q2" in order to bring unlimited music streaming to both operating systems for $10 per mont...

As it turns out, Korea operates two separate trademark systems for hardware and software. So while this doesn't affect Android OS and its distribution, Samsung's recent acquisition of the Android hardware trademark does forbid other manufacturers from releasing Android-branded devices -- whether they be a mobile phone, a PMP, PDA, GPS, DMB, or any other snappily titled mobile computer --...

Hootsuite, one of the most recent Twitter clients to come to Android, just announced it acquired the Swift Twitter app. Many users noticed the interface of Hootsuite to be quite similar to Swift App, for those that have used both clients, so the acquisition doesn't come as an extreme surprise to most. With the developer on board fully now, hopefully we will continue to see updates to the appl...

DENVER--LTE and WiMAX buildouts, as well as an increased attention on distributed antenna systems, should keep equipment manufacturers, site acquisition companies and others in the tower-siting business busy in the next few years, according to...