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Motorola snags Aloqa to put location-aware mobile content in plain sight

Motorola snags Aloqa to put location-aware mobile content in plain sight

September 16, 2010 12:54 PM Matthew Lynley

Motorola has acquired location-based service search developer and darling of MobileBeat 2009 Aloqa for an undisclosed chunk of change to enhance its factory-shipped MOTOBLUR phone user interface with location-based push content.

The technology will allow Motorola phones to push content …

Google Ventures reportedly invests in Apple game maker Ngmoco

Google Ventures reportedly invests in Apple game maker Ngmoco

August 11, 2010 4:58 PM Dean Takahashi

Google Ventures has made an investment in iPhone game publisher Ngmoco, according to a report by Techcrunch.

Techcrunch said that the venture capital arm of Google has made an investment in Ngmoco. That’s startling in part because Ngmoco has been …

SK Telecom squeezes Android, CPU, and storage into a SIM card

SK Telecom squeezes Android, CPU, and storage into a SIM card

February 19, 2010 9:26 AM Devindra Hardawar

South Korea’s SK Telecom is looking to innovate what SIM cards can do with its upcoming Android SIM, and Theme SIM package. According to Engadget, SK’s Android SIM shoves the Android OS, a CPU, user data, applications, and a gig …

Verizon flirts with Apple, but Android is already girlfriend material

Verizon flirts with Apple, but Android is already girlfriend material

April 28, 2009 9:30 AM Matthaus Krzykowski and Matt Marshall

There’s been lots of speculation that Verizon, the largest U.S. phone network, is flirting with Apple, with the idea of introducing an iPhone on Verizon’s network next year.

Verizon is building out a new fourth-generation network, based on Long Term …

Google releasing public Android SDK today? [Confirmed]

Google releasing public Android SDK today? [Confirmed]

August 18, 2008 10:26 AM Matthaus Krzykowski

It appears that Google is currently releasing the public Android software development kit (SDK), which lets developers and manufactures build on its operating system for upcoming phones.

[Update: This is confirmed. The code has now been released.]

The …

Sources: HTC's Google Android phone is "weeks away" from launching

Sources: HTC's Google Android phone is "weeks away" from launching

August 14, 2008 8:39 AM Matthaus Krzykowski

Over the past few days, we’ve gotten multiple confirmations from reliable sources that the first phone built on Google’s Android platform will launch in the next several weeks. It will be an HTC phone, likely the HTC Dream, and will …

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