Today Motorola issued a statement on the favorable ruling it received in its International Trade Commission battle against Apple. The administrative law judge in the case found that Motorola did not infringe upon any of the three patents named in Apple’s suit. Scott Offer, senior vice president and general counsel of Motorola Mobility, had the following to say: Motorola Mobility has worked hard over the years to develop technology and build an industry-leading intellectual property portfolio. We are proud to leverage this broad and deep portfolio to create differentiated innovations ...
Monthly Archives: January 2012
Samsung to merge bada with Intel’s Tizen
A Samsung executive has been quoted as saying that his company plans to merge its own bada smartphone operating system with Intel’s Tizen Project, which is based on the remnants of the the MeeGo OS that Intel developed with Nokia. Tweet Vote on HN ...
ZTE to double phone shipments, expand Windows Phone deployment in 2012
According to Reuters, ZTE has set some lofty goals for its 2012. The company, which is generally considered the fourth largest phone manufacturer in the world, has said that it plans to at least double the number of phones it ships in 2012 Tweet Vote on HN ...
Samsung to use larger smartphone batteries for all-day use in 2012
Samsung vice president Kevin Packingham has said that his company intends for the batteries in all of its 2012 smartphones to be able to last at least a full day, from wake-up until bed, with average to moderately Tweet Vote on HN ...
HTC offers bootloader unlock tool for more smartphone models
HTC recently announced that the bootloader unlock tool that allows users to load custom versions of the Android operating system on their devices is now available for more smartphones in the HTC family. The new phones added to the compatibility list for the tool are the HTC Desire Z, ChaCha, Aria, DROID Incredible, Status, and T-Mobile G2. As before, use of the tool requires the Android SDK and will void the device’s warranty. Tweet Vote on HN ...
LG Pays Microsoft for Android
Microsoft today announced that LG has signed a patent licensing agreement covering Android products. Microsoft holds a variety of patents that it claims Android infringes on. HTC, Samsung, and eight other companies have already signed similar agreements with Microsoft. With the addition of LG, Microsoft now has agreements with companies that account for over 70 percent of all Android phones sold in the U.S. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Nokia Unloads Some GSM Patents
Nokia has sold a total of 450 patents to a European patent licensing company called Sisvel. The patents include some “essential” telecommunications technologies, such as GSM, UMTS/WCDMA and LTE. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Tweet Vote on HN ...
ITC Gives Motorola Preliminary Win Over Apple
Motorola is not infringing on three Apple patents, according to a preliminary ruling issued today by the U.S. International Trade Commission. Apple sued Motorola in October 2010 over three patents it believed devices such as the Droid, Droid 2, and Droid X were violating. Motorola later responded with a suit of its own, covering 18 patens related to smartphones. Today’s preliminary decision in Motorola’s favor will need to be reviewed and approved by the full Comission. Apple had asked the ITC to file an injunction and prevent Motorola from importing the offending devices into ...
Samsung to Merge Bada with Intel’s Tizen
Samsung and Intel are working together to blend parts of Samsung’s in-house bada smartphone operating system with Intel’s open-sourced Tizen project. “We have an effort that will merge bada and Tizen,” said Tae-Jin Kang, Senior Vice President of Samsung’s Contents Planning Team, in an interview with Forbes. The goal of the project is to make it easier for developers to create applications that will work on both platforms. Once the integration is complete, developers will be able to use the same SDK and the same APIs to write applications that will run on either ...
Samsung to Raise Cash for Texas Plant Via Bond Sale
Samsung Electronics’s U.S. operations today indicated that it is preparing to sell up to $1 billion in five-year bonds so that it can raise the funds it needs to operate its chip plant in Austin, Texas. Samsung needs financial institution support to run the sale and has sent proposals to several banks. Reuters reports that this would be Samsung’s first major debt sale in more than 10 years. Samsung wants to increase its ability to produce chips and OLED screens for mobile devices. ...