Great piece by Steven Levy.
Motorola
Uh oh Motorola
> In June of 2013, I made an interesting discovery about the Android phone (a Motorola Droid X2) which I was using at the time: it was silently sending a considerable amount of sensitive information to Motorola, and to compound the problem, a great deal of it was over an unencrypted HTTP channel.
Scroll down and take a look at the information Motorola is gathering about its users.
[[Via Ben Brooks](http://brooksreview.net/2013/07/motorola-is-listening/)]
Google says court dismisses Apple’s patent lawsuit
“We’re pleased that the court has dismissed Apple’s lawsuit with prejudice,” a Google spokeswoman said in an emailed statement on Monday.
Dismissal of a case with prejudice means the case is over at the trial court level, though it can be appealed.
Google bought the Titanic… when it was already underwater
MG Siegler describing Google’s purchase of Motorola.
Motorola Droid RAZR M
That looks like ass.