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        <title><![CDATA[The &amp;quot;culture&amp;quot; is just a show.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Two ideas here are important -- vertical integration and consolidation.  Separately, they point to seriously diminishing competition, but together they equal a full-blown monopoly, something that's not healthy for any industry.  I sincerely doubt that Goog's almost narcissistic culture would change simply due to the purchase of a bunch of patents, but all companies evolve eventually, and that will happen to Google, too.  It will grow some moss and maybe even stop being the darling of the tech stock community.  In fact, the purchase of all these patents points to an organization that is way less concerned with happy, innovative employees, and way more concerned with covering its own backside.  They're armoring themselves with legal arguments against the numerous accusations they face now, and more importantly, those threats they know they'll face soon if they don't own the outside ideas they rely on so heavily.  Some have even suggested the &quot;innovation&quot; aspect of the Goog employee's work week is just a smoke screen to give the impression Google actually innovates internally, rather than simply gleaning ideas from outside as they court smaller companies for possible purchase (e.g. Google/Groupon failed courtship, and Google's subsequent announcement of its own coupon service).  MS got slapped for this behavior, and so should the Goog.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[VeronicaT]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:54:08 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Growing up...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Whether you're happy with the comment, or not...it would appear that Google itself has realized it may need to &quot;grow up&quot; (if having their &quot;Labs&quot; was an indication of their adolence)...http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/more-wood-behind-fewer-arrows.html]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jos.paglia@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:49:27 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[New catchphrase &amp;quot;Google Moto&amp;quot;]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Like it! Now Google will have its own phones.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[phope929@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2011 23:17:50 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Clash of the corp cultures]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Motorola's corporate culture is a slow moving, political and divisive. Google's is free flowing, cooperative and innovative. Combining the two and creating a lucrative, innovative and productive company will be the huge challenge.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[bill@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 05:23:05 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[hehehe]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[perhaps you haven't been reading much Jason lately.  He's a young, hip Apple zealot, not the pudgy, nerdy MickeySoft guy.  Maybe Google should launch an ad campaign painting google dude as the hip guy and now Apple dude has aged into the out-of-touch grown up barely able to comprehend the new technology and style.  It's the circle of life.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[MikeChablis]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:35:07 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Google-Moto Acq. will redefine connectivity]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The standards of connectivity are about to change. Apple put the personal in computer and changed the world. &quot;Googlerola&quot; will do the same for wireless broadband devices and services. The 'choke point' is infrastructure--a dedicated wireless broadband infrastructure will have to be built to support the market. Sound grandiose? Motorola beat Bell Labs in 1983 with the first deployed cellular system. Demand has outstripped 'tower coverage' since that time but the industry grew as users grudgingly accepted the conveniences along with the limitations. A quarter of a million towers later and countless generations of standards upgrades and opening of bandwidth and we are still unable to meet user needs. Time for a new infrastructure for a new era in communications. Motorola started the first wave and it gave us the taste of wireless freedom (and for some wireless chains). A new wireless broadband infrastructure is the next critical step.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[keithmcinnis@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:10:28 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Manufacturing Discipline]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Your point about hardware is well taken. Google knows it's core strengths and Motorola's core strengths. Google won't repeat the mistakes of MS and others. They will find new ways to make mistakes b/c innovations come from permission to explore. Google's culture will invigorate Motorola.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 08:50:27 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Then it was Motorola - now Google's uncommunicative re faulty Nexus S]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[And perhaps Google's hoping to avoid hardware problems as it moves into the &quot;4G and beyond&quot; era. Closer control over production lines may mean an end to the type of situation that seems to have befallen some batches of Google/Samsung Nexus S phones sold in Canada, over which Google remains remarkably uncommunicative after 4 months of, as you say about Motorola, &quot;hundreds of posts kvetching, begging, scolding the company...&quot;: see http://www.google.ca/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=49e8ca84071d51a4&amp;hl=en&amp;start=840 an issue which seems to be trending more and more towards a Samsung hardware problem, though Google supposedly is working on a software fix to minimize the disruption to 3G-intensive apps caused by spontaneously launched voice/text search popups.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[gabertl]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 07:48:08 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Can you say bitter baby boomer?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I am glad I am not the only one to be outraged by the &quot;Grow up&quot; comment.  Listen baby boomers, you had things your way for a very long time.  Time to retire, business is and continues to changed, the world has changed.  The reason Google is a success is because it is not a stale, stagnant, bureaucratic monster.  I appreciate you technical foresight, but I think your generational mindset on what a successful company &quot;should be&quot; has left me and many on this forum in utter shock.  Sadly without scrolling up I couldn't remember the three other points you had because this left such a bad taste in my mouth.  While you are entitled to your opinion, you may want to stick to the facts and leave your person feelings out of it.Here is the toll free number to AARP 888-687-2277, consider enrolling today.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jimt007]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 06:04:11 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[keep bean-counters out]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I think as long as Goog can keep the bean-counters out of top management they will continue to develop. I for one hope they do succeed although I don't agree with every move they make.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[brianoh99]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 18:53:55 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[on point #4]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[While Mr. Hiner sees Google as a company which has not grown up,it seems many others see Google a company which has evolved.Just sayin'...]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[pseudopygrapha@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:20:09 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Motorola should loose it's &amp;quot;grown up&amp;quot; culture]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I used to work at the Moto and it's &quot;grown up&quot; culture is one of the major reasons why Google is buying Moto and not the other way around. If Moto was not so grown up it would have enough innovation to have a mobile market all to itself as being the first mobile company in the world... Instead they were filling out management reports and performance reviews.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[ubergerm]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:24:50 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Patent trolls]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-347344-3484364]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[stilling someone else's idea is theft but trying to kill anybody who has similar idea it trolling. If I come up with idea of cooking food on the iron pan you later come up with idea cooking on the aluminum can, it should not give me a right to ban you from using your aluminum can.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[ubergerm]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:20:13 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Google has to grow up?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[with 29,000 vs 19.000 employees at Motorola, that's a bit like David swallowing Goliath.  Google sounds very mature already in stating that they will keep the companies separate.  They complement each other, but hardware and software a two very different industries with very different focuses.  It's much easier to &quot;ship&quot; digital ones and zeroes than it is a new peice of hardware.  Now if only Google had purchasee wireless spectrum and offered unlimited data plans ... That is the true threat to innovation threatening future innovation.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[NJnewsource.com]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 09:37:06 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Best case]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Unless there is a serious ROI or it is needed to allow a culture to grow, there exists non reason to hury or change an acquired business unit.I'd rather see some aspects of MMI become more like Google.....]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[rhonin]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 08:48:00 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[4.  Google must not dilute its already grown-up model]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Agreed w/@DannyGraham:  Google must manage its Moto integration with great care.  Whether Google continues to prove that humanism is good business depends partly on how well its existing managers learn the corporate language from their newly visceral perspective.  While applying their core principles to the absorption process may require new fervency and focus as they design a handshake with old cubicularity, the new deal is also a great opportunity for thoughtful Apple polishers to compare Google's pending integration of Apple's castoff with the halting success of Apple's Intel-ification.  Google's new model of convivial adulthood has a new arena in which to strut its stuff.  As its management knows, it does this in an environment which - partly due to its prior innovations and absorptions  - we don't have to wait, and we'll all surely see.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jp@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 08:13:18 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Different style]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[While Google pumps out many products, the approach they take is to get it out there, whether &quot;lab&quot; status, or otherwise.  They do have many bugs but when you release software, it only takes a download to get the next version.  When in the hardware business you can't make production runs of buggy boards, not if you want to stay in business.  I hope Google's zeal for innovation carries into the Motorola management but I don't think the cowboy style will apply well to the hardware business.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[MikeChablis]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 06:47:38 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Grow up? Why?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Why should google &quot;grow up&quot; and become yet another boring, political work environment of Corporate America? I wish all companies had as much fun at the office as they seem to enjoy.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[qtip20]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 06:34:01 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Go for the Apple Autocracy]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Jason's a big fan of the Apple style autocracy.  That is how a grown up company behaves. If the leader knows everything, why try to innovate yourselves, just do what he says.Actually, to be fair to Jason, this article paints one of the most positive....er..., one of the least negative pictures of Google so far in his portfolio of blogs.  Up until point 4 it has hardly even negative at all.I don't really agree that all patents are created equal and that by buying up Motorola's that Apple or MS don't have a claim at all.  Yes, they can be used like poker chips but a white poker chip does not carry the same weight as a brown poker chip and I think the specifics of the existing claims need more study than just a count to conclude that the patent war is over.  You think that bevy of patent lawyers are just going to stand around at the water cooler now?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[MikeChablis]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 05:54:28 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Improvement?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Google seems to be very efficient in it's deliveries. This could only improve the Motorola experience. Case in point, the broken corporate email application.  It took many months and updates for Motorola to correct a non-syncing client and make the agent automatically pull mail from Exchange as promised.  The agent showed up in mobile Exchange settings as some unknown Apache entity, and email had to be manually synced....??  Motorola user sites had hundreds of posts kvetching, begging, scolding the company for breaking the most attractive feature in the later generation of Android O/S it created.  A lot of the posters were IT pros for corporations, all looking for info &amp; trying to buy a vowel.  Droid 2 &amp; Droid X, unfortunaltely, were considered by many companies, according to the posting, and rejected because this very important feature was not functional. Motorola was basically uncommunicative on the issue, with only a few of it's forum moderators giving out any info on this, and even they sounded puzzled. I'm still holding on to my 1st generation Droid, since everything works without a hitch.  I can only believe Google's implementations will be better designed, tested, and delivered.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[sslevine]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 05:42:52 -0700</pubDate>
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