Carl Icahn In Talks With Motorola About Its Massive Patent Portfolio
22/07/2011 |
In the land of mobile, patents have never been more crucial. He with the most patents has the most power. Period. In the last few months alone we've seen Apple and Samsung duke it out, Apple and HTC take it to the mat, Google chat it up with InterDigital, and I won't even start on Nortel.
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn — notorious for pumping money into companies and then bossing them around — has taken quite the interest in Motorola Mobility's patent portfolio. With over 17,000...
Push Comes To Shove: Apple Appealing Another iCloud, MobileMe Push Email Ruling To Motorola In Germany
Another development in the ongoing fight between Apple and Motorola Mobility over patent infringements in Germany: a court has decided against Apple Inc. in a case involving its push email service on iCloud and MobileMe services in the country. This is effectively an extension of the same ruling ...
"Defending Android"
Bravo Google, well played.There’s no denying that Google’smaneuver this morningto acquire Motorola for $12.5 billion in cash is remarkable. Everyone is talking about every possible angle of the deal, as they should. The summertime is usually the doldrums when it comes to tech news. No...
Google: Unlocking The Door For More Android Originality?
It sometimes feels like an absurd story without an ending, trying to track who is attacking whom in the mobile patent game, and who is “winning.” But Google has now secured one patent that may just demonstrate that companies are figuring out ways of getting around would-be infringemen...
Google Buys Motorola Mobility For $12.5B, Says "Android Will Stay Open"
Google just announced that it is acquiring Motorola Mobility. The search and online advertising company is buying the company for approximately $12.5 billion (or $40 per share), in cash. The price represents a premium of 63 percent to the closing price of Motorola Mobility shares last Friday. Goo...
Motorola Droid Razr Maxx Review: 4G LTE With Solid Battery Life Just Got Real
Short VersionThe Droid Razr Maxx by Motorola is a very special phone. You see, I had a bit of a thing for the Droid Razr when it first came out, but it wasn’t quite perfect. It felt a bit light, and I had trouble holding it in my hand since it was so big and so thin at the same time. Plus, ...
More Patent Trouble For Google As BT Alleges Infringement
The world of patent litigation seems less and less connected to the real world as the rate of change and development outpaces the rate at which companies can patent new technologies, or even, as BT shows, sort through their existing ones. The amount of infringement lawsuits in play right now is m...
The Patent Cold War, Visualized [Patents]
It's one thing to say that everybody is suing everybody over mobile patents. It's another entirely when you actually see the battle lines all drawn out for you, as Thomson Reuters has so painstakingly done here. Full melee below:More »
Sony Ericsson CEO: We Should Have Taken The iPhone More Seriously
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Sony Ericsson President and CEO Bert Nordberg made a number of interesting statements about the iPhone, Android, Windows Phone and Motorola.Defending the decision to pick Android as the choice operating system for its mobile handsets, Nordberg posits ...
Wish Your Droid Razr Had Maxx Battery Life? It Can!
When the Droid Razr Maxx first arrived I was filled with mixed emotions. On the one hand, I was truly excited that Motorola found a way to make the Razr a plausible option — the original battery life on that thing is atrocious. On the other hand, I felt bad for the folks who went out and bo...
Motorola Injunction Kicks 3 iPhones And An iPad Off Of Apple's German Site (Update)
Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, there lived a website called Apple.de. And on this website, in historical Deutschland, there lived three iPhones and an iPad. They were a happy bunch: some wise but slow with old age, others quick and lean, but they all had one tragic flaw in common. Acc...
