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Google, which bought Motorola Mobility in 2011 for $12.5 billion, announced last week it is selling the smartphone maker to PC manufacturer Lenovo for $2.9 billion. Bad deal? Perhaps not, experts are saying: Think patents, not hardware. Google is not a hardware company, so why did they pay so much for Motorola? Because what they wanted was not to get into the smartphone manufacturing business so much as they wanted to grab Motorola’s vault of patents. Google lost out in a 2011 bidding war for the patent trove of Nortel Networks, a bankrupt telecom equipment maker in Canada, which saw 6,000 patents bought by a consortium that included Apple, Microsoft, Blackberry, Ericsson and Sony for $4.5 billion. That patent haul would protect the consortium from intellectual property infringement suits, but…

Microsoft Corp.’s board has chosen longtime company executive Satya Nadella to guide the company into the future after the once-dominant software giant faltered in recent years amid the rise of mobile computing and as competitors Google, Amazon.com and Apple increasingly threaten its relevance. Nadella will assume the role of chief executive officer and join Microsoft’s board immediately. The company also announced that Bill Gates, formerly board chairman, will assume the title of founder and technology adviser, which Microsoft said will allow him to devote more time to the company and to support Nadella in shaping technology and product direction. Gates remains a board member. John Thompson, lead independent director, will become board chairman. Nadella becomes only the third CEO in Microsoft’s 39-year history, following in the footsteps of co-founder Gates…

The Broken Circle Breakdown Described as “passionate, beautiful and achingly honest”, The Broken Circle Breakdown, directed by Felix Van Groeningen and based on the play written by Johan Heldenbergh and Meike Dobbels, portrays the intense ups and downs of the love story of banjo player Didier (Heldenbergh) and tattoo artist Elise (Veerle Baetens). Falling in love with each other hard and fast, the pair are soon fully intertwined, welcoming a daughter, Maybelle, who changes their lives. FIVE FACTS: 1. The film was nominated for the 2013 Lux Prize, as well as in the category of Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards. 2. Of working with Helenbergh, Van Groeningen said: “He’s a great, great guy. What’s so incredible about him in this movie is that he made a…

Ten years ago Tuesday, Mark Zuckerberg and a few friends launched Facebook as a handy tool for college kids to check each other out. Now it’s a major hub of the Internet, used by 1.2 billion people around the world to share vital information and jokey photos, too. And as Facebook enters its second decade, facing new demands from users, competitors and Wall Street investors, Zuckerberg is pushing for even more change. Already, instead of just a place for posting personal updates, Facebook has become a platform for people to network, for groups to communicate and for businesses to reach current and future customers. Now the Facebook CEO wants users to see more content that’s professionally produced and is encouraging them to engage in more public conversations about news, sports…

Sprint Corp. will provide free wireless broadband service to 50,000 students nationwide under a program President BarackObama mentioned in the State of the Union address last week. Starting Sept. 1, the Overland Park-based wireless company will provide the connections to lowincome students in elementary and secondary schools for four years, an announcement said. “This initiative will build on the efforts of today’s most innovative tech companies to help make our nation’s children better students, problem solvers, creative thinkers, and future leaders, while also training teachers to effectively use mobile technologies to improve student outcomes and prepare them for a competitive workforce,” Sprint chief executive Dan Hesse said in the company’s announcement. Hesse will participate in a kick-off event Tuesday with President Obama, U.S. secretary of education Duncan Arne, Sprint chairman…

The European Union’s antitrust watchdog says Google is offering new and far-reaching concessions to address allegations it is abusing its dominant position in Internet searches. The EU’s executive said Wednesday that Google guarantees it will display results from three competitors in a similar way whenever it promotes its own specialized search services like Google shopping. Antitrust Commissioner Joaquin Almunia says this “provides users with a real choice between competing services presented in a comparable way.” He says Google’s offer of concessions, its third, will be sent to the plaintiffs for evaluation before the Commission makes a final decision on a settlement in the case opened in late 2010. Google has a market share of about 90 percent of Internet searches in Europe, compared with around 70 percent in the U.S.…

Apple TV has been back on the news agenda in the last few weeks. Do you remember that? It was long the unsung, underappreciated stepchild of the astonishingly successful Apple device line-up of the last decade or so, and those who haven’t paid much attention to the fact that Apple even ‘does’ TV may be surprised to read that it celebrated its seventh birthday recently. Yes, the little black box came into the world on January 9, 2007, and therefore predates the iPhone. And yet, it’s that device and the even younger iPad that have hogged most of the consumer attention, press acclaim and sales figures. But if some recent developments and rumors relating to both the Apple TV and the TV world as a whole are anything to go…

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Eric Paslay Eric Paslay The Texas native whose songwriting prowess has already produced massive hits for Eli Young Band, Love and Theft and Jake Owen finally becomes the star attraction himself on this eponymous debut album. Having already produced singles stretching back to 2011, including “Never Really Wanted”, “Friday Night” and “Song About a Girl”, Eric Paslay serves up more of the radio-friendly, uptempo country singalongs that are the Nashville-based singer-songwriter’s stock in trade. FIVE FACTS: 1. The album has already attracted critical acclaim, with USA Today’s Brian Mansfield describing it as “incorporating a sense of both spirituality and ‘80s pop.” 2. Paslay is credited as writing or co-writing every song on the album, earning a solo credit for “Deep as It Is Wide”. 3. “Friday Night” was released as…

U.S. companies are reporting strong profits for the fourth quarter of last year. But most are failing to impress investors who were hoping for even better numbers or rosier outlooks, and are too worried about larger global macroeconomic forces to do much buying. “Earnings season is going quite well,” says Christine Short, a senior manager at the research firm S & P Capital IQ. “But what we’re seeing in earnings season is not what we are seeing in the market.” With results in from half of the companies in the S & P 500 index, fourth-quarter earnings are up a respectable 7.3 percent, making it the best quarter of last year, according to S & P Capital IQ. Of the 250 companies that have reported results, 172 companies have beaten…

SAN FRANCISCO - Google must move a mystery barge from a construction site on an island in the middle of San Francisco Bay because the permits are not in order, a state official said Monday. The notice came after the San Francisco Bay ‘ Conservation and Development Commission investigated numerous complaints about construction of the floating, four-story building, commission executive director Larry Goldzband said. The investigation found that neither the Treasure Island Development Authority nor the city of San Francisco had applied for required permits for the work to be done at the site and could face fines and enforcement proceedings. Goldzband said Google can resolve the issue by moving the barge to one of the fully permitted construction facilities in the San Francisco Bay. “It needs to move,” he…

Here at AppleMagazine, we were greatly saddened in recent days to hear of the passing of Philip Seymour Hoffman. Accomplished as a film actor, producer and director, Hoffman began his acting career in the early ‘90s. He attracted acclaim as a supporting actor in such notable films as 1992’s Scent of a Woman, Twister in 1996 and Boogie Nights the following year. Hoffman’s star turn in the title role in Capote in 2005 won him a series of accolades, including i the Oscar for best actor, and by 2010, he had debuted as a director with the romantic comedy film Jack Goes Boating. Described by The New York Times as “perhaps the most ambitious and widely admired American actor of his generation”, Hoffman certainly achieved much in his lifetime, ¡…

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Like it wasn’t bad enough that the Super Bowl was a super bore and that 99.999% of the commercials turned out to be pricey stink bombs. Even worse, Apple didn’t run an ad to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Mac and its iconic Big Brother Super Bowl ad as many fans had hoped the company might. But ah, Monday morning the Apple faithful awoke to a little treat. Turns out the company did make an ad. In a sign of the times, though, instead of shelling out a fortune to run it on TV, they posted it on the company’s website and on YouTube. Called “1.24.14,” the spot was shot entirely on iPhones on the day of the anniversary. In the spot, the company proclaims the Mac was launched…

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LOS ANGELES - When you buy a TV, sales clerks often pitch you on “future proofing” your set. Turns out, buying a cable TV company relies largely on the same principle. Charter Communications Inc.’s $38 billion bid to ‘ take over the much-larger Time Warner Cable Inc. is an attempt to future-proof its business by getting its foot in the door of millions more homes wired for Internet service. As people use more mobile devices, watch more online video and connect everything from thermostats to refrigerators to the Internet, delivering those Internet services will become increasingly valuable. Gone are the days when one’s primary reason for hooking up cable was for TV. Now, it’s the Internet, which enables countless online services known collectively as the cloud - everything from movies…