Motorola Mobility said Thursday that the company is committed to Android, after a Wednesday report that claimed the company is building an additional Web-based operating system.

Motorola Mobility said Thursday that the company is committed to Android, after a Wednesday report that claimed the company is building an additional Web-based operating system.

On Wednesday, InformationWeek reported that Motorola is building a Web-based operating system, that would reduce the company's commitment to the Android operating system it uses from Google.

The report claims that over the last nine months, Motorola has been hiring engineering talent that would well-suited to create a new mobile operating system. Its team appears to include a significant number of ex-Apple and Adobe personnel, the report said.

The report also cited an analyst from Deutsche Bank who claimed that the operating system project was moving forward as a way for Motorola to hedge its bets.

When asked to comment on the accuracy of the InformationWeek report, Kira Golin, a spokeswoman for Motorola Mobility, issued what has come to be known as a "non-denial denial". "Motorola Mobility is committed to Android," she said. "That's our statement, and I can't control how you interpret or print it."

Jared Newsman, a blogger for Technologizer, noted that Motorola may have already developed a Web-based OS in WebTop, the "application" that runs on the Motorola Atrx's dock. "If Google's bare-bones Chrome OS is an operating system, so is Webtop," he wrote.

Like most other mobile-phone suppliers, Motrorola is at the CTIA show this week, which is being covered by PCMag.com's Sascha Segan. Motorola's most recent news was made with the Motorola Xoom tablet, which a , possibly to focus on a new version.