Google executive chair Eric Schmidt has claimed the current legal skirmish between Apple and Google for utter domination in the mobile industry is the only struggle worthy of mention and discussion, ignoring subjects related to Microsoft and Research In Motion.
In his privilege speech at the AllThingsD conference on Wednesday, Schmidt said as the two tech giants battle for supremacy of the mobile market, the eventual winners will be consumers.
“The Android-Apple platform fight is the …

During the launch of the new Motorola model, Eric Schmidt, Google’s CEO, has made public a series of data that reveals Android’s progress.
According to the figures announced yesterday evening, the number of daily activated Android terminals reached 1.3 million, an impressive jump from the 900,000 daily activations announced by Andy Rubin in June this year. Due to the increased adoption rate, the total number of Android terminals activated until earlier this month reached the …

Eric Schmidt told Boston University graduates to shut down their devices once in a while (Image: aspeninstitute-internal (CC) via Flickr)

Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google Inc, addressed Boston University college graduates last Sunday, telling them that they need to take radical steps and set an example to their generation by limiting their use of computer screens and smartphones.
This year’s set of graduates grew up with Google and its products and services that have made communication and …

From CEO to Chairman, It’s a $101M Change of Pay For Google’s Eric Schmidt / image via AP

Up from his asking pay of $1 a year as Google’s CEO, Eric Schmidt now has a pay package of $101 million following his assumption in April last year of the post as the giant Internet search company’s executive chairman.
The Associated Press this morning reported the gist of Google’s regulatory filing that said Schmidt, who turned over his old job as CEO to co-founder Larry Page, was awarded a …

Google recently instituted a 2-for-1 share split that saw the company offer existing shareholders two shares for each share owned. This is something Google employees and shareholders have been clamoring forever since the company shares reached the high $600′s and moved the shares well beyond the reach of anyone who would want to buy them.
This effectively meant that existing shareholders could not sell their shares owing to the fact that they were beyond the reach of any prospective …

Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt may have inadvertently announced company plans to release a new tablet in the span of six months.
According to The Next Web (TNW), Schmidt said in an interview with Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera the possibility of Google releasing a Nexus tablet in half a year’s time.
TNW quoted Schmidt in saying that Google “plans to market a tablet of the highest quality,” but the tech site immediately commented that the interview was in Italian …

Eric Schmidt has called the controversial Carrier IQ software as a “key-logger” and that Google neither used nor supported the program.
Carrier IQ has repeatedly said claims that say its program records keystrokes and personal information are not true.
According to Reuters, the Google executive chairman stood by and followed through the company’s original statements that it has no affiliations whatsoever with Carrier IQ and called its software a key-logger.
Google is having a hard time to …

Google Executive Chair Eric Schmidt has announced that Android now leads Apple’s iPhone mobile operating system at the LeWeb Conference.
The former Google CEO took part in the event to talk about Google but thoroughly discussed Android as well.
“Android is ahead of the iPhone now,” said Schmidt to a stunned crowd mostly made up of Apple users.
Schmidt explained that Google was able to achieve the feat through unit volume, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, lower price tags and the …

Google executive chair Eric Schmidt has flapped down US legislation proposals that wish to enforce online copyright implementation, saying that once approved, the bills will end with Internet censorship.
The Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011, better known as PROTECT IP Act, is the US Senate’s legislation corollary to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the US House of Representatives.
The two bills intend to fight the …

Google executive chair Eric Schmidt has announced that the firm will remain committed to offer its Android mobile operating system (OS) free of charge.

Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt. (Image: Jolie O'Dell (CC), via Flickr)

“We will run (Motorola) sufficiently independently so it will not violate the openness of Android,” Schmidt said at a press conference today.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the former Google chief executive, during his South Korea tour, said the …