Tag Archive | "Andy Rubin"

Larry Page announces that Andy Rubin will be handing over the Android reins to Sundar Pichai

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

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Some interesting news out of Google today as CEO Larry Page announced via the company’s official blog that Andy Rubin will be handing over the Android reins to Sundar Pichai. It’s important to note that Rubin will remain at Google working on other, and presumably secretive, projects. Google acquired Android in 2005, back when the […]

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Andy Rubin tweets: 3.7 million Android activations in two days

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

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Google’s Android head Andy Rubin tweeted just a few minutes ago that the number of Android activations on December 24th and 25th came in at 3.7 million. An impressive figure to be sure, but as we’ll explain in a post shortly, Apple also did quite well over the Christmas holiday as iOS activations this past […]

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Android’s Andy Rubin on Apple sans Steve Jobs, Siri, and more

Thursday, October 20, 2011

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Google’s Android chief Andy Rubin, who incidentally used to work for Apple, sat down on Wednesday with Walt Mossberg at the AsiaD conference to discuss, what else, Android and the latest Galaxy Nexus from Samsung. So while the bulk of the interview centered on Android and Google’s newly released Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OS, […]

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Apple claims Andy Rubin’s Android framework was inspired by his previous work at Apple

Thursday, September 8, 2011

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Let’s take a break from the ongoing dispute between Apple and Samsung dispute and turn our attention towards Apple’s litigation with HTC. If you recall, the International Trade Commission (ITC) looked at Apple’s first complaint against HTC and found it to be in violation of two of Apple’s patents. Following that, HTC filed a motion […]

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