> They’re a leading home device maker, and that’s also a big opportunity,” Google CEO Larry Page said of Motorola on Monday. “We’re working with them in the industry to really accelerate innovation. via [appleinsider.com](http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/08/15/motorola_purchase_may_bolster_google_tv_in_bid_to_unseat_apple_tv.html)By “accelerate innovation” Page means shoving free Google TV-enabled Motorola set-top boxes down the throats of consumers via the cable companies, and then claiming victory in market share over Apple. They…

> The high-level talks between Google and Motorola started about five weeks ago. Google CEO Larry Page and Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha were talking directly, and only a handful of executives were brought into discussions. Our sources suggest that Android co-founder Andy Rubin was brought into the talks only very recently. via [gigaom.com](http://gigaom.com/2011/08/15/guess-who-else-wanted-to-buy-motorola/)Like I said earlier, this move was more about defense than any sort of long-term mastermind plan, as suggested by the delusional Dan Lyons. The short span of time suggests…

> **Motorola Mobility, which has been Google’s only major licensee fully committed to Android, is now working on a new web-based mobile operating system apparently intended to give it more control over its future, enraging Android advocates anew just weeks after Nokia opted against adopting Google’s mobile OS.** > > Word of Motorola’s new project was [reported](http://www.informationweek.com/news/development/mobility/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=229400097) by *Information Week*, which attributed “a source familiar with the matter.” > > While the company issued an email statement insisting that “Motorola Mobility…

> Motorola will reportedly reduce orders for its Xoom tablet starting in the second quarter of 2011, and no orders are apparently scheduled past June, suggesting a Xoom successor and newer competitor to Apple’s iPad 2 is already in the works. via [appleinsider.com](http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/03/22/motorola_not_planning_orders_for_ipad_competing_xoom_past_june_report.html)And so yet another tablet described by many pundits as “the first real competitor to the iPad” has flopped. More and more evidence is stacking up…

> The Xoom tablet is trim, light, and very pretty > … but when you place it next to the iPad 2, it looks as though it > was designed and built by angry Soviet prison labor instead of by > Motorola. via [instapaper.com](http://www.instapaper.com/go/135636816/text)From Andy Ihnatko, of course.…