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But it was Google, with that takeover of Motorola Mobility, and HP, turning its whole business upside down, which were really making waves.
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After a week in which Google agreed to buy Motorola Mobility, and HP unveiled plans to get out of the PC business, almost anything seems possible.
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Motorola, RIM, and HP tablets do, too.
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Equally HP could have made hay with Motorola, ditching Palm and its OS, picking up immediate traction in Android products, following case studies like Samsung that would give executives their bearings in this new world.
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Meanwhile, it appears as though the iPad will have plenty of new competition from many different companies including Dell ( DELL) , Samsung , LG, Motorola ( MOT) , HP ( HPQ) , and others.
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While HP can try to compete with ZTE, HTC, Huawei, Samsung, Sony, Motorola and all the other Android smartphone vendors, it lacks a mobile infrastructure business which in the past helped the device businesses of Ericsson (ERIC), Motorola, and Nokia.
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In large part, it was, and that was bad news for Apple's rivals, as competitors from HP to Samsung to Motorola tried unsuccessfully to offer a viable alternative to the iPad.
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Since the campaign was launched, Ma Jun, director of the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, in collaboration with the NGO coalition, has traded emails and letters with companies such as Samsung, HP, Panasonic, Intel, Nokia, BT, Motorola, Vodafone and IBM.
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Almost everyone else: HP, Dell, Sony, Blackberry, Acer, Asus, Google, Microsoft and Motorola were essentially noise in the survey.
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Since it may take a while to get on board the likes of phone makers Motorola and Nokia, music players like Apple Computer or chip companies Texas Instruments and Freescale Semiconductor, HP is also looking to build the business internally.
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