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Schmidt on Motorola: “products and Android”

Chris Burns, May 24th 2012 Discuss [0]

This week Google held a Big Tent event at the Grove Hotel in Hertfordshire, speaking with their audience on all things digital - and perhaps most importantly: Motorola. Google's Eric Schmidt spoke up on Motorola specifically, letting the world know that it's not just going to be a situation in which Google dumps the company after they've taken their patents as it's been suggested. Instead there may well be some enhanced Motorola devices coming soon - and Android devices galore, of course. Read The Full Story

Google Chrome hacked at $1m Pwnium contest

Ben Kersey, Mar 8th 2012 Discuss [0]

Eric Schmidt may have claimed that Google’s Chrome browser is “by far the safest” at his MWC 2012 keynote speech last week, but that hasn’t stopped an enterprising student from finding an exploit at CanSecWest Pwnium, an alternative to the Pwn2Own contest. Read The Full Story

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt’s full MWC 2012 keynote video

Rue Liu, Feb 29th 2012 Discuss [0]

During Mobile World Congress 2012, Google chairman Eric Schmidt gave an exceptional keynote that touched upon Android, Chrome, the state of the mobile world today as well as how the developing world will be affected by connected technologies in the future. And, he threw in some odd bits about personal robots. Well, now you can watch the entire keynote presentation for yourself as Google has posted the hour-long video on YouTube. Read The Full Story

Google’s Motorola buy paves way to Nexus confusion

Chris Davies, Feb 14th 2012 Discuss [0]

Google's $12.5bn acquisition of Motorola Mobility may have been given the regulatory go-ahead on both sides of the Atlantic, but the prospect for other Android OEMs - and users - is still unclear. The deal, in question for several months over concerns that hardware and software control around Android might give Google an unfair advantage, is likely to send Motorola's rivals like Samsung, HTC and LG scurrying to the drawing board as they face the challenge of competing with the dominant force behind their primary platform. Still, as Andy Rubin said last August, Motorola isn't necessarily a lock-in for the next Nexus device. Read The Full Story

Google-Motorola deal approval deadline set for February 13 in Europe

Rue Liu, Jan 19th 2012 Discuss [2]

The European Commission has set a February 13 deadline to decide whether or not to approve Google's $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola. The new date comes after the commission suspended the January 10 deadline to wait for additional documents from Google. Read The Full Story

Google reportedly paying smart TV vendors to use Android [Update: Google denies]

Chris Davies, Jan 9th 2012 Discuss [3]

Google is reportedly paying manufacturers to use Android in their TVs, with models such as Lenovo's new K91 ICS-based smart TV supposedly earning vendors a kick-back. The deals, so Neowin's sources say, are part of Google's plan to extend Android through the living room, and are likely what chairman Eric Schmidt was referring to when he suggested that the majority of new TVs would support Google TV by this summer. Updated after the cut. Read The Full Story

MediaTek’s Google TV 120Hz chipset detailed

Chris Davies, Jan 6th 2012 Discuss [1]

MediaTek, one of Google's new chipset partners for the ARM-based next generation of Google TV, has detailed the SoC potentially powering your next Android-based smart TV. The MediaTek 120Hz Smart TV packs media decoding, wireless, 3D processing and more into a single chip, including WiFi synchronization of multiple sets with one or more WiFi-enabled base stations, for simultaneous broadcast between them all. Read The Full Story

Google TV ditches Intel for ARM

Chris Davies, Jan 5th 2012 Discuss [13]

Google TV is jumping from x86 to ARM-based chipsets, in the hope of reducing power consumption, noise and price of the set-top boxes, after the first generation of the platform failed to set the smart TV world alight. Chipset manufacturer Marvell has announced that its ARMADA 1500 HD “Foresight” SoC will be at the heart of the new Google TV STBs, an HD/3D capable chip that can simultaneously decode two 1080p streams in addition to performing SD-to-HD upscaling.

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Schmidt tips Google tablet incoming

Shane McGlaun, Dec 27th 2011 Discuss [17]

Google's Eric Schmidt gave an interview to an Italian newspaper last week that talked about all sorts of things. The most titillating part for gadget hounds is the little blurb offered that Google would be making a tablet directly in the next six months. This would be a move similar to what Google has done with Nexus smartphones in the past. Read The Full Story

Logitech Revue Google TV 2.0: Have you got it yet?

Chris Davies, Dec 11th 2011 Discuss [165]

Logitech pushed out the Google TV 2.0 update to its Logitech Revue set-top box this week, upgrading the smart TV adapter with Android Market access, a revised UI and more. The update, based now on Android 3.1, arrived on the SlashGear Revue - which we reviewed, in first-gen form, all the way back in November 2010 - this weekend; has your Revue been revised yet? Read The Full Story

Google’s Schmidt: Carrier IQ is unacceptable keylogger

Shane McGlaun, Dec 9th 2011 Discuss [11]

Carrier IQ has been in the headlines in a very bad way over recent weeks. The company makes software that tracks the usage of users on smartphones and logs keystrokes. The software is the center of wiretapping suits and the FTC has been called on to investigate the company. Google's Eric Schmidt was on hand at a conference on internet freedom that the search giant was hosting and spoke about condemning Carrier IQ. Read The Full Story

Google’s Eric Schmidt envisions Google TV on majority of new TVs by summer of 2012

Paul Fang, Dec 7th 2011 Discuss [12]

Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt has become the unofficial chief bearer of good news for his company at the LeWeb Conference in France this year, in his onstage interview just today. Known for lofty predictions (such as his anticipations for self-driving cars and semantic search engines) when he speaks at conferences, Schmidt spoke about his big plans for Google TV, which he believes will embedded in the majority of new television sets by the summer of 2012. That's quite a prediction to make, even for the Google Chairman, especially since not much ground has been broken by Google TV, at least at the moment. Read The Full Story