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NTP launched into a patent lawsuit frenzy last year, suing giants like Apple, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Motorola, LG, HTC, and major U.S. carriers like AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint. The seven patents in question revolved around mobile e-mail, and though the U.S. Court of Appeals sought to invalidate the patent for being unreasonably broad, the…
Apple has successfully kept Samsung from selling its Galaxy Tab 10.1, the latest Android tablet from the South Korean manufacturer, in Australia. The two companies have been in the throes of legal battle for a few months now in several different countries. Apple decided to escalate its case against Samsung, and the latter relented and…
Earlier this month, Apple brought a lawsuit against HTC, alleging that the Taiwanese manufacturer infringes on several mobile patents held by Apple. Later, a judge agreed with Apple and said that HTC infringes on two of the 10 patents that the iPhone maker holds. However, the Taiwanese-based smartphone maker said it will defend its technologies…
Qualcomm said that it has acquired a number of gesture-recognition assets from GestureTek and that it will be incorporating this technology into current and future versions of its Snapdragon processors. The deal will give Qualcomm intellectual patents, engineering resources and more regarding gesture-recognition technology and this could open the door for a new way to…
Depending on which country you’re in, when you purchase a SIM card you need to submit some form of identification so that should the authorities ever need to investigate something they can contact you. In Finland, you don’t have this silly rule. In India and China, you do. Most people around the world have just…
It seems the overwhelming response regarding the AT&T and T-Mobile merger has been opposition. Sprint, for example, has been incredibly vocal about the negative implications of the deal. State and federal government officials have been publicly opposed to the deal, too, stating that such a deal would disrupt competition in the wireless industry in the…
This patent thing is getting out of control. Lodsys, which has been going after app makers over in-app purchase patents, is acting like one of those dastardly pigs and is going after the Angry Birds maker Rovio. Rovio has seen more than 300 million downloads of the game throughout the world on multiple platforms and…
Patents surrounding Android are becoming a bigger issue everyday and the Oracle, Google suit has the potential to derail the Android train. In the latest legal filing in the case, FossPatents indicates that Google may be willing to settle out of court to make this go away. It’s somewhat of a change for Google, as…
Sen. Herb Kohl has come out against the AT&T, T-Mobile merger and this could be a big deal because Sen. Kohl is the chairman of the U.S. Senate’s subcommittee on antitrust. In a sternly-worded letter, Sen. Kohl said the move could cause “substantial harm” to competition in the mobile marketplace and he feared that this…
Google’s Eric Schmidt decided to chime in on the Apple lawsuits brought against its hardware partners. The former Google CEO says that Apple is feeling threatened by its competitors, and instead of firing back with new innovations, the iPhone maker is just hitting everyone else with lawsuits. To be fair, Schmidt ought to look at…