Product Chatter - Stuff about Products

Today’s announcement of Google acquiring Motorola Mobility for $12.5B was quite a surprise and has all sorts of angles to consider as to why and whether it’s good or bad.   Here are just a few ways to look at it.

Two of the hottest trends in technology these days are mobile apps and cloud services, with both driving us into what is already being dubbed the "Post-PC Era".    Our center of the computing universe is quickly moving from the desktop with local apps to a mobile, always connected, distributed framework.   To accomplish this, mobile devices need the support of cloud services.

This week was pretty amazing for news made by every major smartphone player and sets up the battles to come for the next couple of years.    We had HP, Nokia, Microsoft, RIM and Apple all in the fray.  Let's take a look at all of the happenings and try to assess where the market is heading.