Motorola

Motorola Solutions Inc was declined to dismiss a class action lawsuit filed against the company over allegations that it misled its shareholders about deteriorating prospects for its cellphone business, resulting in investment losses.

On Monday, US District Judge Amy St. Eve in Chicago ruled there is a "genuine dispute" as to whether predecessor company Motorola Inc in 2006 and early 2007 hid key information about its ability to compete with such rivals as Nokia Oyj and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd.

At an event in New York a mobile phone maker Motorola unveiled its new flagman 4G compatible device, Motorola Photon, also known as Droid X2.

Motorola Photon 4G features NVIDIA Tegra 2 chip with 1 GHz, a 4.3” 540x960 screen and 8 megapixel front camera with 720p video recording. Besides, the device is equipped with 16 GB built-in storage, 1 GB RAM and a SD slot for up to 32 GB cards.

Motorola launches a netbook-powering Android smartphone, the Atrix which will run exclusively on Orange network.

A 1GHz dual-core handset the Atrix comes with 1GB of Ram and 16GB of on-board Flash storage.
The smartphone can power a netbook-like shell, available separately. The netbook, called Lapdock, 11.6in screen, keyboard and battery. The Atrix connects through a built-in dock, providing the unit's memory, storage and processing power. This offers access to a dedicated desktop-style UI, Firefox browser and QuickOffice suite.

Consumer named Verizon the mobile network of the year for the second consecutive year according to the stats given by Harris Interactive.

“Since the change in the portability of phone numbers, switching mobile phones and mobile networks is significantly easier,” said Jeni Lee Chapman, Executive Vice President of Brand and Communications Consulting with Harris Interactive.

“Verizon’s strong brand equity can have a large impact when consumers have a choice.”

Motorola Mobility Holdings makes a dull forecast for its sales in this quarter impacted by the next Apple iPhone that comes with Verizon Wireless. The company expects unusual drop and has already already noticed a decline in smartphone sales, Chief Executive Sanjay Jha said on Wednesday.

Motorola first-quarter phone sales typically fall 7 percent to 10 percent from the fourth quarter shopping season.

While last week Google's Andy Rubin unveiled an upcoming Motorola tablet running the Android OS, codenamed Honeycomb, this week a mobile forum posted some pictures of 10-inch Motorola tablet which revealed that the device will run on Verizon network.

Next year Motorola Mobility will be rolling out a product that enables consumers to stream video to mobile devices such as tablet computers and cellphones in their home. The product was announced at the Reuters Global Media Summit and it will be showcased at the Consumer Electronics show right after Motorola Inc spins off Motorola Mobility, which includes its set-top box and cellphone business, from the rest of the company on January 4.

Motorola Inc will separate its business into two separate companies in January as reported by the co-chief executive Greg Brown.

Previously, Motorola said it would separate the business in the first quarter into two parts: Motorola Mobility, which will sell mobile handsets and television set-top boxes, and Motorola Solutions, which will supply wireless technology to governments and enterprises.

A lawsuit was filed by Microsoft Corp with the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington at Seattle against Motorola on allegations that the phone maker charges excessive royalties on network technology used in Microsoft's Xbox game system.

According to the data from research firm Canalys this year brought a tremendous growth for Android smartphones with the sales up 1,309% on a year over year basis.

"With Samsung, HTC, Motorola, and Sony Ericsson all delivering large numbers of Android devices, and with focused efforts from many other vendors, such as LG, Huawei and Acer, yielding promising volumes, the platform continues to gather momentum in markets around the world," Canalys analyst Pete Cunningham said in a report.

Apple is suing Motorola over three patents infringement caused by the Droid smartphone maker. The Cupertino company says Motorola is purposefully using its touchscreen software, as well as other display technologies.

"Motorola's infringing activities have caused and will continue to cause Apple irreparable harm, for which it has no adequate remedy at law, unless Motorola's infringing activities are enjoined," Apple said in a nine-page filing on Friday with the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin.

Two patent lawsuits and one patent complained were filed by Motorola with the US International Trade Commission and US federal court. The company sues Apple for infringing its patents in a range of the Cupertino products.

Revolutionary new concept mobile phone is unpredictably getting available from Mozilla, but not from Apple, Google, Motorola or HTC.

The hottest concept mobile phone, Seabird, was developed by a designer Billy May in his spare time as part of a Mozilla Labs project.

As Motorola introduced a hardware eFuse protection that is meant to enforce software restrictions many websites started offering unofficial versions of Froyo updates for Droid X smartphones. Motorola, in turn sent them cease-and-desist letters urging them to discontinue encouraging users to jailbreak.

Motorola and Verizon Wireless are partnering for a digital tablet device which would allow users to watch television on it, as reported by the Financial Times. The tablet is expected to tie closely to Verizon's FiOS digital pay television service, the newspaper said, citing the sources familiar with the case.