Motorola Inc. posted higher quarterly profit and stabilized its long revenue decline, as the company’s wager on smartphones running Google Inc.’s software began to pay off.
The Schaumburg, Ill., company sold 2.7 million smartphones in the second quarter, up from 2.3 million in the first quarter, helped by its Google-based Droid. The follow-up device, Droid X, [...]
In the United States, Google Inc. is defending itself against lawsuits, a congressional probe and a 37-state investigation led by Connecticut Atty. Gen. Richard Blumenthal regarding personal information the Internet giant collected from unsecured wireless networks while assembling photos and data for its Street View mapping service.
But Great Britain’s data protection watchdog says that its [...]
Verizon Wireless smartphone customers use 25 percent more data than AT&T iPhone customers, thanks in large part to new Verizon’s new Android smartphones, a recent study indicates.
Validas, a company that analyzes cell phone bills and usage for consumers and corporate customers, analyzed 20,000 consumer phone bills between January and May of 2010 and discovered that [...]