Mac OS Ken: 08.16.2011

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7 • 996 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2011

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Google Agrees to Buy Motorola Mobility for 12.5-Billion-Dollars / Google Chief Legal Officer: Motorola Mobility Suits Against Apple will Continue / Google CEO: Stoked About Motorola Mobility’s Handset Business But Will Keep Android Open / CNET: Google Buy of Motorola Mobility Could Cause Tension with Other Android Partners / The Loop: Google Plus Motorola Mobility Could Equal Good Time for HP to License webOS / Motorola Mobility Acquisition Could Be Shot-in-the-Arm for Google TV / CNET: Google Buy of Motorola Mobility Likely to Face Regulatory Scrutiny / GigaOm: Sources Say Microsoft Was Courting Motorola Mobility Too / Engadget: Secret Source Says Telefonica Drawing Down iPhone 4 Inventory Through 12 September / Electronista: Rumored Verizon Promotion Could Indicate October Launch for Next iPhone / BGR Says Apple Carrier Partners Testing Some iOS Device with 4G Connectivity / eBay Auction of Alleged 3G-MacBook Prototype Gets Yanked / DigiTimes: Secret Supply-Chain Sources Say iPad 3 Nixed for Second Half of 2012 / Computerworld Netherlands: German Court May Not Have Gotten Full Picture in Galaxy Tab 10.1 Injunction Case / Barnes and Noble Says Official Jobs Biography Due Out on 21 November / Work Appears to Be Underway on Apple Grand Central Terminal Store / Most Flagrant Fake “Apple Store” in Kunming Changes Name to “Smart Store”

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0:00.0	This is MacO-S-Kinn. Google Rocks the Mobile Space iPhone rumors roll on and on and something
0:16.5	seems hinky with Apple Fix of the Galaxy tab. It's Tuesday August 16, 2011.
0:23.4	I'm Kan Ray and this is news from Maco-S-Can.
0:28.1	Brought to you by yours truly and supported by listeners like you
0:32.2	subscribers to Maco--Can Day 6.
0:36.0	More information is available at MacoS-Can.com.
0:40.0	This show is also supported by the Mac-O-SS Can Podcast app for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch,
0:46.8	available in the App Store now for $2.99.
0:51.9	It was one of those days when the whole world went topsy-turvy.
0:55.0	Suddenly Google owns a bunch of stuff that before it did not.
0:59.0	A phone manufacturing business, a set-top box manufacturing business, 17,000 patents, with another
1:05.8	7,000 making their way through the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, campuses across the country,
1:12.0	and all it cost was $12.5 billion.
1:15.0	Fortune and a million other stories online say that's how much Google has agreed to pay for Motorola
1:20.3	mobility.
1:22.3	And suddenly I have newfound respect for Moto mobility CEO Sanjay Jaah, who said just last week,
1:28.3	Jeepers we sure would love a great deal with Microsoft like the one Nokia got. Pretty sneaky CEO. Well Google got a
1:36.6	whole bunch of stuff with which it may honestly not know what to do. That's based
1:40.6	on the size of the buy and not a comment on Google's ability to manage.
1:44.4	While Google got a whole bunch of stuff with which it may honestly not know what to do,
1:48.2	most seemed to agree that mostly what Google bought was intellectual property as insurance.
1:54.4	And I don't know if you've heard, but a lot of the cell phone makers out there are suing a lot of
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