Apple reportedly is wasting no time in consolidating the market power it won in its patent case against Samsung.Citing an unnamed source “familiar with the dealings,” CNET is reporting that Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Larry Page have met at least once already to discuss potential infringements by Google on...
Microsoft was pretty much a bystander in Apple’s patent battle with Samsung, but the Windows folks couldn’t be happier with Apple’s $1.05 billion victory. By signing a patent deal with Apple and taking its own direction for smartphones, Microsoft is now better positioned to become a viable alternative to the...
After fighting for survival, Nokia will sell 500 wireless to U.S firm Vring for $22 million and sell its Qt software to business to IT services firm Digia Oyj. Nokia has lost the Smartphone market after competitors such as Apple and Samsung have gained dominance in the Smartphone market. The world's second largest cellphone manufacturer...
Aereo, the controversial Barry Diller-backed service that is streaming live and pre-recorded TV over the airwaves in New York City, is celebrating its recent preliminary court victory against 18 broadcasters by offering a free hour of service and new pricing options. But the real key for the viability of this...
Microsoft said Wednesday that it signed a patent cross-license agreement with Amdocs Software Systems, extending Microsoft’s aggressive IP licensing strategy to Linux servers.Although Microsoft said the terms of the deal with Amdocs were confidential, the software giant confirmed two key points:One, the patent agreement covers Amdocs’ use of Linux-based servers...
In the last few months, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took his company public, got married and scored a nearly $6 million home loan at just over 1%. What could possibly top all that? How about approval of his very first patent request from way back in 2006 - covering privacy...
MeeGo-rescuing smartphone start-up Jolla Mobile hasn’t just received incubator support from Nokia, the company has revealed, but a chunk of mobile patents from Nokia’s portfolio. The Finnish company from which numerous MeeGo engineers left to set up Jolla reportedly freed up several patents to establish the new firm...
Bloody battles over intellectual property have become the tech world's new normal. Google just bested Oracle in an epic patent and copyright battle over the use of Java in Android. Apple is fighting in courts around the world. Technicolor, the company that brought color to the movies, is counting on...
Last year NVIDIA purchased Icera, a company that specializes in wireless modems, for $367 million. The reason for the acquisition was simple: NVIDIA wants to make system on chips for mobile phones that also come bundled with cellular connectivity. That goal is something that Qualcomm executed back in...
Twitter has raised the bar for recruiting the best and brightest developers, and without any real costs. Instead, the company's Innovator's Patent Agreement (IPA) appeals to a cause near and dear to many of today's best developers: Refusing to weaponize software patents.The IPA published today by Twitter (on GitHub, no...
Today Twitter announced its new Innovator's Patent Agreement (IPA), which will give its engineers and designers control over the patents they create. This is a dramatic break from the current approach in Silicon Valley, where companies take full control of patents and can then sell them or use them in...
Wonder what $1 billion will get you? Depending on your tastes, you can pick up a neat photo app with no business model, or a hefty collection of software patents from a struggling company. Pending regulatory approval, Microsoft will buy more than 800 patents and related patent applications from AOL...
Not quite two months after the European Commission approved Google's pending acquisition of smartphone maker Motorola Mobility (MMI) on the grounds that it would be pro-competitive and would not impact the patent market much, the lawmaking body announced it is opening up two parallel investigations of MMI's conduct. One will...
Yahoo is playing the press while trying to force Facebook into licensing between 10 and 20 of its patents.Yahoo is making fairly standard claims in Web tech circles: that a hotter, younger company is infringing on patents Yahoo registered years ago and now needs to cut the former Web behemoth...
Microsoft confirmed to ReadWriteWeb this morning that the formal competition law complaint it filed this morning with the European Commission is against both Motorola Mobility (MMI) and Google, its would-be parent company. The office of the EC's Competition office confirmed to ReadWriteWeb this morning it has received Microsoft's complaint and...
Everybody is armed, forces are deployed and the battleground is chosen. Let's get this thermonuclear war started. 2011 was the year that the major mobile platform providers loaded up with ammunition in the upcoming world war between Apple, Microsoft, Research In Motion and Google. Apple acquired patents from Novell while...
Everybody is armed, forces are deployed and the battleground is chosen. Let's get this thermonuclear war started. 2011 was the year that the major mobile platform providers loaded up with ammunition in the upcoming world war between Apple, Microsoft, Research In Motion and Google. Apple acquired patents from Novell while...
Everybody is armed, forces are deployed and the battleground is chosen. Let's get this thermonuclear war started. 2011 was the year that the major mobile platform providers loaded up with ammunition in the upcoming world war between Apple, Microsoft, Research In Motion and Google. Apple acquired patents from Novell while...
Could the growing number of device manufacturers demanding intellectual property royalties of somewhere around 2.25% per device sold be establishing a de facto cartel, establishing fees that collectively render it impossible for new competitors to enter the field? That would appear to be the subject matter to which European Commission...
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