Last week when Google announced plans to purchase Motorola Mobility and its 17,000 patents, many expected backlash against Apple. Today an unlikely ally appeared when Microsoft opened a case in front of the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) which attempts to block sales of the Motorola Droid 2, Droid X, Cliq XT, Devour and Backflip smartphones. The Redmond legal team alleges that Motorola Mobility is infringing on seven of its patents.
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In light of the recent events unfolding in courtrooms around the world between Apple and Samsung, it seems the war in mobile will be won based on patents. With a healthy library of 17,000 patents, Motorola Mobility was the perfect acquisition for Google, an acquisition which may have single handedly saved Android.
It’s time to put the speculation to rest, Motorola has come clean with sales data for its inaugural tablet, the Motorola Xoom. More than 250,000 Xooms have been shipped by the manufacturer during the first quarter of 2011, a respectable number, but shipments and actual device sales are quite different from a retail perspective. Combined with 9.3 million mobile device, 4.1-million representing smartphones, and it’s easy to see why Motorola’s net revenues were up 30 percent compared with the year-ago quarter.
Rise and shine, it’s time to kick off your morning with the US Update. Headlining this morning’s news is an update on PS3 jailbreaker Geohotz who reportedly left the US for a South American vacation. We follow up with rumors of Motorola Mobility’s web-based OS then drop details on the BlackBerry PlayBook battery life. This and more on today’s US Update.
Android has certainly emerged as Motorola Mobility’s primary focus over the past two years. However, according to a report from Information Week, the company might be hedging its bet on Android as it hopes to launch its own web-based OS in the near future. Officially, Motorola has neither denied nor confirmed the existence of such project.
In the midst of the Nokia Microsoft alliance, better known as “Nokisoft”, Motorola Mobility has revealed that 28 percent of handset sales originate from one carrier, Verizon Wireless. These details were contained in Motorola’s SEC filing and with the Xoom launching in two days, investors may be watching sales closely.
