patents are the main reason for the planned purchase of Motorola

December 15th, 2011

The European Commission has asked Google for more information on the planned acquisition of Motorola Mobility from $ 12.5 billion. A decision on the deal has been postponed.

This confirms a spokeswoman for the European Commission (EC) at PC World. The request for additional documentation implies that Dealin of January 10 is not met and the deal before that date may be approved. A new deadline is only after Google announced the documents submitted.

Information is missing
What is missing from the information that Google has provided the Commission did not say. However the spokeswoman said that that data is essential to properly evaluate the acquisition. Google acknowledges the request of the Committee and stressed that it is a routine procedure.

The search giant is “confident that the committee will come to the conclusion that the acquisition is good for competition”. Google promised to continue close cooperation with the committee.

Patents
It is not the first time that Google should provide more information about the deal. The U.S. authorities made a request for additional information on the various implications of the deal. Google announced in August at Motorola want to take over . The deal would focus on the telephone patents that Motorola, which will use Google Android to defend against patent threats from Microsoft, Apple and others.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt denied earlier this month that patents are the main reason for the planned purchase of Motorola. It would be rather a personal wish of Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who always wanted to do something with hardware. Schmidt said that the huge patent portfolio does help. Google is that patents only defensive purposes, he promised.

4G 7-inch tablet ZTE V66 send to FCC for certification

December 9th, 2011

December 9 news, ZTE project launched in the U.S. market next year to support LTE networks of smart phones , it now appears LTE tablet also planned. ZTE has been submitted to the FCC V66 Tablet PC for certification, according to the FCC the information displayed, V66 will support Verizon LTE (band 13) standard for 4G networks.

V66-screen 7-inch, resolution 1280 × 800, 1.2GHz dual-core configuration processor , 1GB RAM, Android 3.2 system battery capacity 4000mAh.

MTS announced officially sales of iPhone 4S

December 1st, 2011

Finally, the first official confirmation of full time release iPhone 4S, the newest smartphone Apple, in Russia. Press release sent out about this operator MTS. It stated the following.

Retail MTS (JSC “Russian telephone company”), one of the largest mobile retail networks in Russia, announces the launch of sales from December 16, 2011 smartfnov iPhone 4S stores across Russia. Acceptance of the preliminary bids will be opened on the smartphone online co ??www.shop.mts.ru December 2, 2011.

Unfortunately, at present the company has not considered it necessary to publish the official price at which it will be offered “the most anticipated new this season.” While it remains to be content with the data razdobytymi sly reporters, but hope that after this announcement will be followed by several others, and some of the retailers, so be a little more verbose. Recall, according to preliminary data, the official iPhone 4S will be available in Russia at prices ranging from 35 to 45 thousand rubles, depending on the amount of internal memory.