Things aren’t looking good for Motorola. Right now, the company is in a legal battle over patents with Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL). On Monday, Richard Posner (the U.S. District Court Judge) made a ruling in Apple’s favor by taking one of the patent rights away from Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc (NYSE:MMI). It was the U.S. Patent No. 6,175,559.
The patent was a method to generate ”preamble sequences in a code division multiple access system”. Motorola also claimed that the patent was essential to their 3G standards.
When Apple objected to their patent rights, Posner listened and subsequently through out their rights. He’s been eliminating patent rights and now Motorola is down to their last patent at the trial. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) still has four, a number significantly down from the original fifteen.
Florian Muller from Floss Patents says that Posner’s work is far from over and there will probably be more because patents-in-suits are harder to come by.
Apple and Motorola have been at odds over patents for quite awhile now with the latter claiming that the former infringed on several of their wireless tech systems. Apple says that Motorola took some of their key iOS patents. Underneath the entire mess lies the real culprit behind the battle: Google’s Android. The late Steve Jobs vowed in his biography that he vowed to take down his number one competitor.
This battle between the two companies could continue on for days, weeks, or even months. As I mentioned before, it appears that Motorola is losing ground but it’s still to early to tell what the overall outcome is going to be. It’s easy to dismiss this case and claim that Apple has it in the bag but we don’t know the whole story or what’s going on in the courtroom. We will probably never know, we just have to wait and see what the outcome is.
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Telecom policy cultivates feeling of alienation: Mufti - in.com
Srinagar, Jun 5 (PTI) PDP today described the decision to keep Jammu and Kashmir out of the new telecom policy as one which encourages a "feeling of 'otherness'" and sought Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's intervention in scrapping the "diktat". "Such treatment of the J&K state only fuels alienation, contributes to trust deficit and cultivates the feeling of 'otherness' among the people here," PDP patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed said while addressing a party meet. He was referring to the 'one-nation-one-number' provision, which exempts users from paying roaming charges under the National Telecom Policy 2012, which is not applicable in Jammu and Kashmir and the Northeast. The former chief minister said it was ironic that the state should be kept out of a scheme which is christened such. "What message are you sending to the people of the state by such small-minded policies?" Sayeed, who played a crucial role in persuading the Centre to start mobile telephony in the state during his tenure, asked. He claimed that such actions brought to a naught all efforts at bridging the gulf between the state and rest of the country and need to be dumped. "By treating the people of the state as suspects in implementation of policies like the telecom policy, the government is actually creating a mistrust about them which reflects often in unwarranted police action against them in various states," alleged. (More)
41MP Nokia 808 PureView smartphone launching in India soon - Times of India
India is expected to be among the first few countries in which the phone will make its global debut. The first markets to begin selling Nokia 808 PureView reportedly include Russia and India.
Nokia PureView 808 has generated a lot of interest due to the gigantic 41-megapixel camera sensor on-board. The high-resolution 41 megapixel sensor camera comes with high-performance Carl Zeiss optics and new pixel oversampling technology.
The PureView runs on the Symbian Belle OS. Other technical specifications include, 16 GB internal storage, 4.0-inch AMOLED display, 1.3 GHz ARM 11 processor and 512 MB RAM.
Nokia PureView 808 also includes NFC, Stereo FM Radio with FM transmitter, HDMI, 3G, Bluetooth 3.0, Wi-Fi b/g/n, DLNA and Dolby Digital Plus for 5.1 channel surround sound playback.
Though the price of the smartphone has not been disclosed, it is rumoured to be launching at a price tag of Rs 30,000 approximately.
France Telecom shareholders reject dividend cut - Reuters
PARIS, June 5 |
PARIS, June 5 (Reuters) - France Telecom's shareholders on Tuesday rejected a resolution advocated by some of its employee shareholders that would have cut its dividend by nearly 30 percent.
Some 93 percent of shareholders at its annual investors' meeting voted in favor of a proposal by France Telecom's board to keep the dividend at its current level of 1.40 euros a share.
Other European telecoms operators such as Telecom Italia , Vivendi and Telefonica have recently scaled back their dividend payouts to counter a negative mix of economic recession, competition and costly network upgrades in their mature home markets.
One company union that favored a cut in the payout blamed the recently inaugurated government of Socialist President Francois Hollande for the vote, given that the government is the company's largest single shareholder with about a 27 percent stake, including shares hold by sovereign wealth fund FSI.
"By refusing to lower the dividend to 1 euro as the employees wanted, the government has committed its first political error of its new term," the main France Telecom union said in a statement.
The government would have surrendered 145 million euros ($180.73 million) in dividend payout if the proposed reduction had gone through, according to union estimates.
France Telecom, which like other incumbent operators has been slammed by low-price competition from upstart rival Iliad's Free cellular brand, said it would almost certainly cut its dividend for 2012 and 2013.
Earlier during the shareholder meeting, France Telecom Chief Executive Stephane Richard played down the possibility that the company would enter an already crowded Brazilian telecoms market.
He also said he viewed some degree of consolidation in an intensely competitive European market as "inevitable."
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