Some are calling it patently absurd for Motorola to go head-to-head with market leader RIM given its recent financial worries. New CEO Greg Brown has no such concerns maintaining that the Blackberry maker infringed on no less than seven of Moto’s patents in the series that includes the Blackberry 8800.

But it may be more of a case of tit-for-tat than toe-to-toe for the ailing K1 creators, the lawsuit against RIM comes just days after RIM laid their own suit for Motorola’s unpaid royalties on their patents.

Things look grim for the former giant: falling stock prices, no merger talks, petty lawsuits.

Does anyone want a mobile phone company? Going once, going twice, two and a half…er, two and three quarters…

The hydrogen fuel cells in a MOTOSLVR L7!!!! Well Angstrom’s new fuel cell technology and cell phone maker Motorola have teamed up to create a prototype mobile phone that runs on a hydrogen fuel cell -

The Angstrom Power hydrogen-powered fuel cell for mobile phones has been in the trial phase for the last six months. You can expect to charge up your cell phone with such a battery by the year 2010.

New motorola phones to be announced; Motorola E9 and the RAZR Gold. The E9 sports 2.4-inch (240 x 320) QVGA display, 3.2-megapixel camera, 802.11 b/g Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 1.2, a microSD card slot, and 50MB of internal memory.