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This came completely out of left field. Microsoft made a few claims that HTC infringed on a few of their patents. HTC obviously agreed that they did and will now pay royalties to not only Google but Microsoft as well to use Android on their handsets.
Microsoft and HTC have...
HTC's first response to Apple's legal assault - that they'd basically been surprised by the announcement, and that they value IP but have a strong portfolio of their own - left many people wanting more, and the company's lawyers have worked up just that. In a new statement from...
Reports are coming in today that the Patent and Trademark Office has rejected Google's request to trademark the name "Nexus One". The "Nexus One" moniker was ruled too similar to Integra Telecom's own registered trademark for its Nexus fixed bandwidth integrated voice and internet T1 product.
Mike Rogoway, of Portland's...
Most of us don't know who Martin Cooper is, he was the first person to make a call on a handheld cell phone prototype in 1973 and he is named on the patent “radio telephone system” filed that same year. Android now has some strong endorsers in the inventor...
Over the years we've learnt to take these doomsday predictions with a pinch of salt, but according to an IP expert one potential outcome of the Apple lawsuit against HTC is that the courts could rule existing handsets - meaning the Nexus One, Hero, DROID or other Android device...
There is no doubt about Android getting more popular everyday on almost any gadget out there. Take for example the world’s first embedded Android-based navigation system on a dashboard from Chinese firm ArcherMind Technology. And now is the turn of the Camangi WebStation to use Google's free OS.
Camangi is...
As we all know, nowadays many companies love suing others for any little thing they can find, but sometimes those lawsuits have a real case. Well, Spring Design, maker of the Alex, a Android-based dual-display ebook design, is claiming on a lawsuit, that the ebook reader from Barnes and...
In addition to the landscape QWERTY keyboard, HTC have added a new zoom control wheel to the HTC Magic smartphone. Seemingly intended to offer more precise zooming without treading on Apple's pinch-and-spread patent toes, the wheel is called up with a double-tap.
In the CNET France video below, you can...
Broadcom has announced Android compatibility for its multifunction wireless combo chip, that packages WiFi, Bluetooth and FM radio capabilities on a single component. The company has added drivers for its BCM4325 combo chip to the latest build of the Android platform, meaning that hardware manufacturers will be able to...