Quick and Easy Halloween Costume Ideas Using Only Your Smartphone

The Halloween party is tonight, and you've been too busy to come up with a clever costume idea. Fear not! That’s plenty to work with. A little resourcefulness and your phone can go a long way to making a crazy awesome costume.Where Is Thy Sting?With your phone out of sight, turn its volume way up, and play this. Then spend the entire evening swatting at an imaginary bee. Amp it up with a little red makeup to add a few bee stings to your arms, neck, and face. Bee careful not to get stung. Tweet, Tweet Place your smartphone in the inside pocket of a coat and play this with the volume...

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Hello, Lenovo!

Today, Motorola Mobility becomes part of the Lenovo family of companies, and we are thrilled.Over the past two years we have transformed Motorola by focusing on what matters most -- consumers. We’ve made huge strides in bringing the mobile Internet to millions of people around the world and improving their lives through exceptional technology, experiences and value. While we’re proud of the progress we’ve made, we recognize that there is still much more we can achieve -- in innovation, reach and impact.In Lenovo we have a partner that shares our mission and that brings global scale, a diverse...

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DROID Turbo: Power for Days, Charge in Minutes

It’s hard to believe that it’s been five years since we launched the original DROID. Since then, DROID smartphones have come to be known for speed, power and endurance, built to outperform your expectations and push the limits of what a smartphone can do.And today, we’re excited to announce the latest in this line of premium smartphones: DROID Turbo.From the beginning, DROID smartphones have come with leading-edge technology, including Verizon’s blazingly fast network speeds, exceptional battery life and the latest in innovative material design. And DROID Turbo is no exception. Designed to keep...

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The New Moto X: The Story Behind a Name

Your name says something about who you are and how you see the world. Maybe you’re named for a person or a place or maybe something just downright silly. We don’t get many opportunities to name things. But when we do, we reserve the best names and nicknames—the most creative, the funniest and most personal—for the people and things we love.The new Moto X responds to your voice and whatever name you give it, but no matter the name, the story behind it is what matters most.Whatever your choice, choose for you.Posted by Barbara Liss, Social Me...

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Coming Together to Combat Bullying: Q&A with Senator Mark Kirk

We believe mobile technology can change the world. That’s why our Motorola Mobility Foundation created the Apps4Good program, where employee volunteers partner with nonprofit and civic organizations to create mobile apps that improve lives and communities. Apps4Good projects have spanned a wide range. We developed, for instance, an app for the Chicago Bar Foundation that increases access to justice by providing information about free or low-cost legal resources. The Foundation also teamed up with the Chicago Shakespeare Theater on an interesting cultural experiment. They created an app that led...

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Style Speaks: An Interior Designer on Why Black is the New Black

Welcome to the Style Speaks Series—a moment in which we talk with experts and thinkers about what style and color really mean and what it conveys in our lives. Color is integral to how we feel, how we choose to communicate, how we choose express ourselves—and even how we choose to customize our phones! This is what these people think about color. What about you? What do you choose?When it comes to color, Sabreen Madden is obsessed. As an interior designer and teaching assistant at Harrington College of Design, color is integral to how she creates spaces. During her day-to-day she is always thinking...

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The Download: It’s Time for a Moto 360 Android Wear Update

Moto 360 was designed to be timeless—and that goes for our software, too! Today we are beginning to roll out a new Android Wear update coming to your watch soon. In this update you will find:Smart Battery Saving - When your battery hits 15%, your Moto 360 will turn off ambient mode, so you don’t have to remember to. Timely Time Checks - Moto 360 will synchronize the time with your phone more often to make sure it is up to the minute.User Interface Tweaks - We observed with consumers that there are many times where you want to use your Moto 360 as truly a classic watch—a beautiful way to see...

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Nexus 6 from Google and Motorola: More Android. More screen. More everything.

At Motorola we’ve been big believers in Android since the very beginning. We love its power, its flexibility, and how it gives you the freedom to choose the experience that’s right for you. In fact, the only thing that would be better than Android is...more Android. That’s why we’re so excited to have been able to work with Google’s Android team to bring you the new Nexus 6, featuring Android 5.0 Lollipop.With Nexus 6, we’ve worked with Google to bring you a bigger phone with more everything. More screen. More speed. More power. And, it’s the best Android experience ever with:More room to view:...

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It’s Official: Android 5.0 Lollipop Coming to Moto X, Moto G, Moto E and More

Now that Android 5.0 Lollipop will be going to the world with Nexus 6—a product of some of our own engineering—we are excited to confirm that this latest and greatest Android release will also come to our other devices as part of our ongoing software strategy to provide fast updates to our pure Android experience.While Google has not yet publicly released Android Lollipop, we are happy to confirm that the upgrade will come to:Moto X (1st Gen. & 2nd Gen.)Moto G (1st Gen. & 2nd Gen.)Moto G with 4G LTEMoto EDroid Ultra, Droid Maxx, and Droid MiniPlease stay tuned for more information on timing...

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The Download: The Creative Opportunities of Designing for a Round Watch

One of the things that excites us about round watches is not only the iconic, beautiful design. It’s also unleashed cool, new opportunities for software development and new experiences. So for today’s Download, our regular spotlight on software, we wanted to get a little deeper into the benefits of designing for round watches.Though for decades designers have created software experiences for squares and rectangles (LCD monitors, mobile phones, tablets, and even TVs, to name a few), a round watch provides a new canvas. Rick Hoobler, a user interface designer for Moto 360, and I have talked about...

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