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• Motorola, Optus launch 'social' Android smartphones

  Motorola has launched its MOTOBLUR range of Android-powered “social” smartphones onto the Australian market with two new handsets and an exclusive partnership with telco Optus.

• Motorola to put Bing search on Android phones

  Motorola will start loading Microsoft's search and map services onto its Android smartphones in China, bringing more non-Google services to the phones amid a row between Google and China.

• Motorola's Quench marks company's eighth Android phone

  Motorola released its eighth Android smartphone on Monday called the Quench or Cliq XT, which comes with a touchscreen and a virtual keyboard.

• Motorola reports a small Q4 profit, held back by phone sales

  Motorola's fourth-quarter sales fell 20 percent year-on-year, but the company still made out a small profit, unhampered by the exceptional charges that plunged it into loss a year ago, it reported Thursday. It expects to make a loss in the first quarter, however.

• Verizon updates Droid software; Users hope it fixes echo problem

  An over-the-air software update to the Droid smartphone started yesterday, but it wasn't clear whether the 14 enhancements address a voice echo problem that hundreds of users complained about in online forums.

• Motorola invests in touch screen company

  Motorola’s venture capital arm invested an undisclosed amount in a company that it believes represents the future of touch-based user interfaces.

• Windows Mobile smartphone sales plunge 20% in Q3

  Sales of smartphones running the Window Mobile operating system declined 20% in the third quarter at the same time that total smartphone sales surged 13%, according to an analysis of newly released sales data from Gartner.

• Upgrade path to Android 2.0 uncertain

  With this week's release of Verizon Wireless' Droid phone comes the first real test of the potential for fragmentation with Android.

• Motorola posts surprise profit

  Even before the phones it is hinging its future livelihood on hit the market, Motorola posted a surprise profit and upped expectations for the current quarter.

• Motorola describes close relationship with Google

  On the day that Microsoft is launching phones that will run on its latest version of Windows Mobile, Motorola is singing the praises of open-source software, specifically Google's Android.

• How Motorola Uses Prediction Markets to Choose Innovations

  <strong>the project</strong>: Deploy a prediction market to aggregate new business ideas suggested by Motorola employees and assess their viability. A prediction market is a system for forecasting the outcome of projects or events based on how willing individuals are to buy "stock" in them. Users buy shares to vote items up. Each item is evaluated based on how much it is "worth:" The higher the value, the more popular the idea.