Motorola created some amazing devices in 2013 with Google’s backing, including the Lenovo A766 blue

Motorola created some amazing devices in 2013 with Google’s backing, including the Lenovo A766 blue . Of course, it also lost obscene amounts of money each and every quarter while doing so. Lenovo is preparing to finalise the deal to buy Motorola from Google, and it’s planning to stop the losses in short order. However, Motorola CEO Dennis Woodside isn’t going to be there to see it – Woodside has left Motorola to take the chief operating officer job at Dropbox. Is this the beginning of a Motorola brain-drain?


The deal includes $660 million (￡398m) in cash and $750 million (￡453m) in Lenovo ordinary shares; the remaining $1.5 billion (￡905m) will be paid in the form of a three-year promissory note.
The Supreme Court recently granted cert on two cases about how the Fourth Amendment applies to the search incident to an arrest of a cell phone found on a person arrested.  In textual terms, when is a search of a cell phone incident to arrest constitutionally “reasonable”? In this post, I want to lay out some of the possible Fourth Amendment rules that the Court might consider to answer that question. I’ll start with a basic introduction to the rationales of the search incident to arrest exception.  I’ll then offer a few possible rules the Court might adopt to answer when a cell phone can be searched under the exception.  Next, I’ll turn to possible rules for how broadly a search should extend under the exception if/when such searches are allowed.  In future posts, I’ll offer some thoughts on how the Court might choose among the rules.
The reaction was slow in coming, but financial markets and corporate bosses have been jolted awake to China’s relentless growth decline and are scrambling to cope with wrenching changes in global business.LG's phone-crafting factories have cranked out yet another smart phone -- this one's a mid-range, mid-size mobile running the latest version of Android.

But some communities aren't happy. A state law restricts their ability to reject cellphone towers, which some say gives carriers too much power.The L90 is the fanciest of LG's third-generation L Series mobiles, and can be seen on the far-left in the image above. L Series phones aren't quite as bleeding-edge as the high-end G Series mobiles, but should have a more reasonable price tag to match.

Current Motorola chief Dennis Woodside said that "with the recent launches of Moto X and Moto G, we have tremendous momentum right now and Lenovo's hardware expertise and global reach will only help to accelerate this."

"The acquisition of such an iconic brand, innovative product portfolio and incredibly talented global team will immediately make Lenovo a strong global competitor in smartphones. We will immediately have the opportunity to become a strong global player in the fast-growing mobile space," Yang Yuanqing, chairman and CEO of Lenovo, said in a statement. "We are confident that we can bring together the best of both companies to deliver products customers will love and a strong, growing business.

Woodside isn’t exactly a household name, but he is credited with leading the charge at Motorola over the last two years which resulted in the company once again making Lenovo S920 phones that people actually want to use. Losing him to Dropbox is undoubtedly a blow to Motorola, but he’s probably about to cash in big time on the Dropbox IPO. In some ways, it’s a step up – Dropbox is valued at about $10 billion (￡6 billion) right now, but the Motorola Mobility sale only valued the phone maker at a little under $3 billion (￡1.8 billion).