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Google’s deal to acquire Motorola was subject of the most news links shared via Twitter during the week of Aug. 15-19, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index.

Google’s Android strategy has looked more like Microsoft’s original Windows CE/Windows Mobile plan than Apple’s iPhone plan up until today. Supercharging Android: Google to Acquire Motorola Mobility The $12.5 billion purchase is framed as a vehicle to defend Android against Apple and Microsoft’s recent patent attacks against Android. Our acquisition of Motorola will increase competition [...]

“Rooting” and Android device is a process that gives the device user complete control over it. People have rooted Android phones for a variety of reasons including installing newer unauthorized versions of Android than the device’s vendor is willing to provide and installing apps that can only be installed on rooted devices. Owners of rooted [...]

Yesterday, I wrote: Motorola Atrix (modular Android phone) & Xoom Tablet Disappointing According to an Analyst I noted my surprise since the Xoom seems to be generating a lot of buzz (good and bad) and the few people I know who have a Xoom seem to like it a lot. Business Insider’s Jay Yarow declared [...]

It pays for smartphone manufacturers to know what their customers do with their products. So, Motorola commisioned a survey study to do just that. New Motorola Mobility Survey Shows More Smartphone Users Crossing the Line Between Work and Play Here’s what they learned from their survey of U.S. smartphone users: 1. 53% check work email [...]

Google has never been afraid of its competition in the past. Now, after making its company name synonymous with “search engine”, gunning down Microsoft’s Hotmail and tackling the smartphone market, it’s looking to take on Apple’s iTunes with the long-awaited launch of Google Music.

Telecom giant Motorola is getting into the cloud storage game with the purchase of Y Combinator-backed cloud storage and cloud streaming company Zecter.

The three-and-a-half-year-old Zecter is best known for its ZumoDrive and ZumoCast services, which let users store and stream files to and from servers on the Internet, AKA “the cloud” of data.

Motorola did not say how much they paid for Zecter, but they bought the whole shebang; acquiring not only Zecter’s products, but also its founder David Zhao, who developed applications for Amazon.com before taking the startup plunge. It also mentioned that Zecter has around one million customers.

Motorola intends to integrate Zecter’s technology into its MOTOBLUR service, a user interface replacement for Android-based devices with a hefty social networking component. MOTOBLUR pushes notifications from various social networks, including Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace.

“Consumers want seamless access to their content and media from wherever they are, while content providers want to ensure that content remains protected and secure,” said Motorola Mobility VP of software and services Christy Wyatt in a statement.

Motorola seems most interested in Zecter’s streaming technology. As part of the buyout, Motorola will be halting the distribution of ZumoCast software. Current ZumoCast users will be able to use the service as normal, but the company said that it would keep users informed about its “future plans” for the product. And almost as a footnote, Moto added that “The ZumoDrive solution will be unaffected.”

AT&T’s 3G network is being used for yet another socially savvy mobile device; the upcoming Moterolla Karma QA1 is curvy, compact and socially aware. The phone will have quick access to Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, JuiceCaster and more. From Motorola’s perspective, the idea of a mobile device is to support communication, no matter how it occurs.

That’s a good point of view to have, considering the dominance of Apple’s iPhone, and the multimedia support mobile devices need for creating, sharing and consuming content. With what appears to be a main tab for social networking, a menu of socially integrated applications are ready and able to connect you with your web world.
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Recently, Motorola has caused a minor stir among tech blogs when one of its job posting indicated a need for people who will be manning what it calls as the Android Social Smartphone Project. And since the first Google Android-powered handset was officially launched last week and will be released on Wednesday, we can’t help but anticipate what this project may become. Read more