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Rumor: Google offered Motorola’s hardware division to Huawei

Michael Crider - April 11, 2012

One of the biggest Android stories of 2011 was Google's acquisition of American handset manufacturer Motorola, now in its final stages. While most business pundits speculated that the purchase was primarily for Motorola's extensive patent portfolio (the company was one of the first large-scale manufacturers of cell phones and...

Google makes 4 times as much revenue on iOS as on Android? Not so fast

Michael Crider - March 30, 2012

Earlier this week a report from The Guardian stated that Google was making four times as much money off of advertising from iPhone, iPad and iPod ads than it was on the entire Android platform. Android Community elected not to run the story, because frankly, we had doubts about...

LibreOffice Android port progresses to prototype

Michael Crider - February 6, 2012

A few months ago we brought you news that LibreOffice, the open source offshoot of popular free office suite Open Office, was headed to Android. While it would be wrong to say that the team of developers is making rapid progress, progress is nonetheless being made. The prototype app...

Google CEO claims Android still doesn’t make much money

Michael Crider - January 20, 2012

Despite objections from certain multi-national software conglomerates, Google claimed in its latest quarterly report that Android still isn't making much money - or at least not as much as it could. While Android is reaching towards 50% smartphone market share in nearly every world market, Google CEO Larry Page said...

Google’s fourth quarter: 250 million Android devices, 11 billion app downloads

Michael Crider - January 19, 2012

If the reports that Apple was "catching up" with Android yesterday made anyone contemplative (and contemplate that it was a narrow focus on new smartphone buyers), Google's earnings call today should be enough to put any and all doubts to rest. Amid the regular pomp and circumstance of corporate...

Google gets patents from IBM, including “computer phone”

Michael Crider - January 3, 2012

In the great IP wars of the early 21st century, patents are bought and sold like AK-47s on the black market. And to extend the metaphor, Google just picked up a payload that might prove to be very effective indeed. The company has acquired 188 patents outright with another...

Lenovo, ZTE and other Chinese OEMs band together to fight Android patent trolls

Michael Crider - December 30, 2011

If you're tired of seeing all the patent lawsuit stories that pop up on Android Community, imagine how tired we are of writing them. We're not alone, and a group of Chinese manufacturers is reportedly joining forces to fight off the legal bulldogs from Apple, Microsoft, Oracle and the...

British Telecom sues Google directly over Android patents

Michael Crider - December 19, 2011

Did you think that the patently insane suits surrounding Android had been curtailed now that Apple's litigious pursuits in The US and Australia have been set back? Think again. This morning British Telecom, one of the largest telecommunications conglomerates in the world, filed suit against Android creator Google in Deleware, United States....

Huawei is the latest target for Microsoft’s patent license fees

Michael Crider - November 8, 2011

Let it be known, ambitious original equipment manufacturers: if you get too successful, expect a visit from Microsoft, asking for their latest round of protection money patent license fees. Huawei is the latest manufacturer to draw the watchful eye of Microsoft after a couple of successful product launches, including...

53% of Android phones pay license fees to Microsoft

Michael Crider - October 24, 2011

Apple's patent tyranny against every Android manufacturer they can find gets a lot of ink, but it appears that Microsoft is getting the bank. After securing yet another licensing deal with Taiwanese OEM Compal, Redmond announced that a full 53% of Android devices being made are done so with...

LibreOffice team working on a free Android version

Michael Crider - October 14, 2011

If you're a Linux user, odds are you've already heard of LibreOffice, a fork of the popular open-source suite OpenOffice. The project has been gaining steam in the last year, and now the developers say they're targeting platforms other than desktops, namely Android, iOS and a web app. That's...

Java creator James Gosling leaves Google for robotics company Liquid Robotics

Shane McGlaun - August 31, 2011

It has only been a few months since James Gosling, the geek considered the father of Java, went to work for Google. The thing that was so strange to me when Gosling went to work for Google was at the time Google and Oracle were in a legal battle...

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