News Analysis: Google Goes Hardware Shopping

Zacks.com submits: As part of the spin-off of its mobile-phone business, Motorola Inc. (MOT) has planned a reverse stock split to help increase the share price.

Joel West submits: The papers, the news, blogosphere etc. are all abuzz about the new Google (GOOG) Nexus One.

China's Huawei Technologies Co. sued Motorola on Monday, accusing it of seeking to transfer confidential Huawei intellectual property information to Nokia Siemens Networks.Motorola last year agreed to sell its wireless network business to NSN, a joint venture between Finland's Nokia and Germany's Siemens, for 1.2 billion dollars.Huawei asked a US District Court in Illinois, where Motorola has its headquarters, to block the transfer of Huawei-developed wireless and core network communications technology to NSN.

Microsoft, which accused Motorola a month ago of violating its smartphone patents, has filed suit against the US telecom giant again, accusing it of demanding "excessive" royalties.Microsoft, in the suit filed in Washington state, where the US software giant has its headquarters, charged that Motorola was demanding "excessive and discriminatory" royalties related to patented technology.

Microsoft, which accused Motorola a month ago of violating its smartphone patents, has filed suit against the US telecom giant again, accusing it of demanding "excessive" royalties.Microsoft, in the suit filed in Washington state, where the US software giant has its headquarters, charged that Motorola was demanding "excessive and discriminatory" royalties related to patented technology.

Shuggy says the Labour party should be asking basic questions about what the role of the state should be. Here’s a thought, which I fear is awkward for left and right - that, in a post-crisis world, one role for the state is to provide a pre-condition for a healthy market economy.Put it this way. What can the state do better than private companies?

Erick Schonfeld submits: