Smart phone wars

Posted by on Aug 23, 2011 in Android, mobile, news | Comments Off

This post was originally posted on in-traction.com. Head on over and join in the discussion.

Yesterday Google took their turn in the latest round of the smart phone wars when it was announced that Google is to buy Motorola Mobility for $12.5bn. Motorola split their business sometime ago with Mobility being the development and manufacture of mobile phones arm.

It seems that, for now at least, Google will continue to run Mobility as a separate business. Motorola are already dedicated to producing Android devices and so, you would imagine, that this is a great opportunity for Google to have control over the hardware as well as the software in it’s mobile ecosystem.

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Everyone else was doing it…

Posted by on Oct 28, 2008 in news | 0 comments

… I just wanted to be popular.

Inspired by all the cool kids at Headscape; Craig Rowe, Dave McDermid, Ed Merritt, and Paul Boag who are blogging their little hearts out, I thought I would join in. Welcome to robborley.com.

I’m not really sure yet what this will be about, or that it will keep my attention for longer than about 10 mins, but as I’ve always wanted to be cool, here is my latest attempt. 

Let’s see how it goes.

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