Microsoft has inked an agreement that adds China-based ZTE to its Android and Chrome patent licensing program. Financial details of deal were not disclosed. But the agreement gives ZTE access to Microsoft patents covering phones, ...
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The U.S. International Trade Commission has found no evidence that Apple infringed on a Motorola Mobility patent covering a touchscreen function. The finding ends an investigation that began in November 2010 when Motorola petitioned the ...
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Apple has ensured that it will not face an import ban on its iPhones, after it persuaded a US trade agency that it did not infringe a sensory patent, owned by Motorola Mobility. Google acquired Motorola's mobile phone unit last year for ...
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A Motorola Mobility patent that was successfully used to force Apple to turn off its iCloud push email services for users in Germany last year could be invalid, the District Court in Mannheim, Germany, said on Friday. The court said it ...
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Google won't do anything to thwart Facebook's recently launched Home software for Android devices if it becomes explosively popular, according to Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt. Home, which became available for download April 1, ...
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A court in Florida said that Apple and Motorola Mobility have no interest in quickly and efficiently resolving a patent infringement lawsuit, but are instead using their litigations around the world as "a business strategy that appears to ...
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A German court has invalidated an Apple patent for the slide-to-unlock feature on mobile phones, according to a published report. The Thursday ruling by Bundespatentgericht, Germany's federal patent court, is a victory for Samsung ...
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For many of us—especially those with kids—programming the DVR to record shows and movies until it's crammed to capacity is a regular ritual. But how many of those shows do you actually ever watch? Probably not as many as you ...
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Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA, a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-sapphire (SOS), has filed a new lawsuit in US District Court alleging the infringement of Peregrine ...
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An administrative law judge at the U.S. International Trade Commission has ruled against a ban on Microsoft's Xbox as he found it did not violate a patent owned by Motorola Mobility. In a one-paragraph ruling, Judge David P. Shaw gave an ...
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Google has continued its restructuring plans, with maps chief Jeff Huber following the head of Android, Andy Rubin, out of Google and reportedly into the firm's laboratory project Google X. Huber, who has run Google's Mapping and Commerce ...
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Google has acquired a startup from the computer science department of the University of Toronto to get key researchers in the area of deep neural networks. The Internet company acquired DNNresearch, which was set up last year by Professor ...
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Google has retaken the role of superstar of the tech sector with a stunning stock rally as rival Apple flounders. Google has hit fresh all-time highs in recent weeks, and closed Friday in the US at $US831.52 ($814.69), capping a nearly ...
Motorola Mobility is cutting 1,200 jobs, in addition to a reduction of 4,000 jobs it announced in August, to focus on high-end devices. "These cuts are a continuation of the reductions we announced last summer," said Motorola spokeswoman ...
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Google is to make 1,200 more job cuts - around 10 per cent of its workforce - at Motorola Mobility, the mobile phone maker it acquired for $12.5bn (£7.7bn) in a protracted deal completed in May 2012. The job cuts are part of a ...
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