The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has started an investigation regarding Motorola Mobility, Google’s most recent acquisition, to find if it hampers innovation in the mobile market. The firm refuses to license several patents to its rivals, reports say.
According to a Bloomberg reports, the American regulatory body set into motion an official probe that revolves around assurances Motorola Mobility laid down to license its mobile technology standards to competitors on fair terms.
The FTC …

Google’s Nexus 7 tablet $199 sounds highly attractive, but industry analysts and several potential buyers believe that it misses key hardware features. Others say the search giant’s mediocre effort only intends to perk up its fragmented Android mobile operating system (OS) in an Apple iPad dominated tablet market.
The Mountain View based firm Wednesday introduced the Nexus 7 to a house packed of developers during its I/O 2012 conference. The slate is now available for sale online at the …

BAE Systems, a defense firm based in the UK, has built up a new positioning system using transmission signals from mobile phones, TV, Wi-Fi and radio to measure accurate user locations within a couple of meters.
The firm touts its novel technology as a substitute for existing similar technologies such as GPS (US) and GLONASS (Russia). It believes current positioning systems rely on relatively weak satellite signals that are susceptible and unprotected against unfriendly …

Google last week unveiled its newest Android operating system with several striking novel features; however, the company seems to lack effort in finding a solution to an issue that has relentlessly hounded its mobile operating system: fragmentation.
Just as the search giant made widely known the impending arrival of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, most Android device owners still run on the relatively outdated Android 2.3 Gingerbread. This version already is three major releases after the former. Based …

Google Analytics has drawn closer to mobile app tracking from a position that custom-made for established websites, said Google product manager JiaJing Wang.
According to Wang, the company’s analytics service will offer Android and iOS apps results with better, wider, and more specific metrics.
Wang said, “Application developers and marketers need to have a profound understanding of their mobile applications’ usage.”
Google Analytics will have several reports, of which one set …

Want to know how Siri stacks up against Google Voice Search? Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster did too and so he conducted a test that pits the two head to head.
According to Munster, Siri – the voice assistant of the iPhone – has lost to Google Voice Search in a test he (perhaps with his team) conducted. Making a total of 1,600 searches on each system, Munster wrote in a note to clients on Thursday that Siri gets a “D” grade while Google Voice Search gets a “B+”.
Furthermore, …

The recent launch of the Google Nexus 7 tablet has ignited fire in a somewhat dormant Apple iPad-dominated tablet market.
Google Nexus 7 is the first Google-branded slate designed and developed by the search giant itself. It comes with the most attractive set of high performance features found on a tablet so far, which will not compromise topnotch hardware and software specs with price. The Google tablet will be yours for just $199 for the 8 GB model (the same price and capacity as Amazon’s …

Just when you thought RIM could not sink any lower, it has managed to do worse in the first quarter of this year with announcements that drive observers to note that RIM is surely on a doomed path.
The first of these announcements is a $518-million loss in the first quarter of the year, the Canadian handsets and tablet maker’s first net loss in eight years.
RIM has indicated in its earnings performance report that despite a revenue of $2.8 billion, it lost $0.37 per share. This loss is …

Nokia, still struggling against essentially a duopoly dominated by Apple and Samsung in the smartphone space, has been in clear trouble since last year.
Nonetheless, the Finnish handsets maker – once regarded as the undisputed king in mobile phones – seems to be holding true to their announced path: sell as much feature phones as possible and transition to Windows Phone as their high-end smartphones’ operating system.
However, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop, a former high-ranking executive of …

Google has officially announced the next update to its mobile operating system, Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, during its keynote at Google I/O 2012 in San Francisco.
Jelly Bean, previously thought as Android 5.0, builds upon Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, so it’s not a major face lift for Android OS, and this version specifically makes the platform faster, more intuitive and “buttery smooth”.

Google I/O 2012 keynote on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.

Project Butter
A key improvement, called Project …