licensees

It’s Hard to Cut the Charging Cords

Katherine Boehret in The Digital Solution on February 15, 2011 at 4:24 pm PT

A pad to charge all your mobile devices sounds like a great idea, and yet most people are still fumbling with jumbles of power cords. Katie looks at the different technologies involved and why charging pads aren’t more commonplace.

Another Kodak Moment: ITC Agrees to Investigate Apple, RIM

John Paczkowski in Mobile on February 17, 2010 at 4:02 pm PT

The U.S. International Trade Commission has agreed to investigate claims that Apple’s iPhone and Research in Motion’s BlackBerry infringe on Kodak’s intellectual property. At issue here: Two patents generally covering image preview and processing, which Kodak claims have been used illegitimately in the iPhone and BlackBerry. At stake for Apple and RIM: A ban on U.S. imports of both devices.

A Priceless Kodak Moment for Apple and RIM

John Paczkowski in Mobile on January 14, 2010 at 9:30 am PT

Emboldened by the settlement it won from Samsung in a recent digital camera patent dispute, Kodak is seeking similar arrangements from Apple and Research in Motion. In a handful of lawsuits filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York, Kodak accuses both companies of illegally leveraging its digital-imaging patents in the iPhone and BlackBerry.

Just When Microsoft Thought It Was Out, the Justice Department Pulls It Back In!

Kara Swisher in News on April 17, 2009 at 2:36 am PT

The Microsoft antitrust trial seems like a distant memory, doesn’t it? Not quite yet to the Justice Department, it seems, which asked the federal judge overseeing the 2002 settlement with federal and state regulators yesterday to extend her oversight of some of the judgment another 18 months. The Justice Department said it wants that extended to make sure Microsoft fully complies with the requirement that technical documentation to licensees is crackerjack.