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...some positive signs. Handset sales began slowly improving in late 2009 as Jha set about changing Motorola's 9-to-5 corporate culture and wooed top talent away from competitors. He scrapped much of the 2009 product portfolio in favor of new smart-phone offerings, all running Google's Android operating platform. (Get the latest gadget news and reviews at Techland.com...
...Motorola to one horse - even if it's Google - was a risky but necessary move, as the market-leading iPhone taught consumers to increasingly demand usability in addition to cool hardware, Motorola's traditional specialty. "Software is the star now," says Carolina Milanesi, a Gartner analyst. "The choice of Android was one Motorola couldn't postpone without risking falling further behind or never recovering...
...last year, Motorola emerged as one of the largest shippers of smart phones. That's largely due to Droid, its newest offering for Verizon Wireless. Motorola has also made headway with Cliq, its T-Mobile phone, and early in March it launched BackFlip, the first Android phone for AT&T. About 40% of wireless customers now use smart phones, according to Web research firm Crowd Science, and that portion is growing rapidly. To complement Android, Motorola developed Motoblur, one of the first user interfaces to unite social-networking tools such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. "We fundamentally changed our focus...
Since Jan. 12, Google's primary mission when it comes to its China operations has been damage control. What, if any, of its businesses beside search will survive? So far, it appears that Chinese adopters of Google's new Android operating system - including China Mobile and China Unicom, the two dominant mobile-phone companies - still have the government's permission to utilize the platform. But the future of other businesses that Google is involved with in China - for example, TOP 100.cn. a music portal funded by Google and several big music labels - is unclear...
...back to the problem of trying to define rock 'n' roll. Rock is the cooing on "Gimme Shelter", the dripping guitars on "Purple Haze", the riff that brings Pete Townshend's nimble strumming to new heights on "Pinball Wizard." It's Thom Yorke's nasal voice on "Paranoid Android" and the way Nirvana somehow managed to sound loud and muffled at the same time. But is it the saccharine harmonies of Abba's "Dancing Queen"? Pudgy dudes in Led Zeppelin T shirts would probably say no, but the 30 music historians, journalists and industry executives who make up the Rock...