Early iPhone 5 adopters have come to develop a love hate relationship with the new Lightning port. One one hand, the phone charges exceptionally quick, on the other, none of the prior accessories are combatable do to physical size differences. Appleinsider got ahold of some patent information, hinting that a wireless solution might be on … Read more
Earlier this summer, a California jury found Research In Motion (RIM) guilty of patent infringement and order RIM to pay $147.2 million! Naturally, RIM appealed the decision. They caught a lucky break: today RIM issued a press release saying the presiding US District Court has decided that they didn’t commit patent infringement after all. Here’s … Read more
Microsoft (MS) and Barnes & Noble (B&N) have been involved in a patent dispute for the last year. MS went after B&N (and others) , saying publicly unspecified patents of theirs were being infringed upon by the Android operating system. Everyone seems to have paid up, with B&N being the last holdout. Well, it seems … Read more
…as if you didn’t think it was already. The infotech industry is grinding to a crushing, squealing halt due to the current suffocating patent war being waged by all comers and at all levels. The latest implications of this sucker come fresh from Motorola, who both Microsoft and Apple are claiming to be gouging the … Read more
Google got green signal from EU to acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion. As per Reuters “Google Inc won unconditional EU regulatory approval on Monday for its planned $12.5 billion purchase of mobile handset maker Motorola Mobility.” This package comes with a condition that EU would monitor the search giant’s patent usage to ensure … Read more
As I’m sure all of you noticed and some of you are still noticing, we had a rather rough weekend. Some nefarious individual or individuals hacked the site. We are clean now, even though you still might see the malware message. There’s just a reviewing process that we have to go through, and we have … Read more
…but they won’t tell us what the agreement is about?! I quote: “The contents of the agreement have not been disclosed.” Why make an announcement like this and then not tell people what it is?! This si all it really says, so take from it what you will: “Microsoft Corp. and LG Electronics have signed … Read more
I know the team at OtterBox are very proud of their cases and now can rest assured that their hard work and innovation will be protected from would be fraud artists trying to steal their innovation and sell it for their own gain. I have actually encountered some of these rip off Defender Series Case … Read more