IBM is set to announce the creation of an Eco-Patents Commons -- shared innovations geared at environmental sustainability -- with the participation of Sony, Nokia and Pitney Bowes.
Nokia said Wednesday its patented technology may be freely used in the Linux kernel, making the Finnish cell phone giant the newest computing company to begin offering intellectual property protections to open-source programmers.
Despite a commercial future that depends on working with each other, the relationship between intellectual property firm and chipset vendor Qualcomm and handset maker Nokia has been fractious at best during recent years.
A key licensing agreement between the world's number one mobile handset maker Nokia and mobile giant Qualcomm, which has prompted a bitter court battle between the two, has expired this week.
Following its recent victory over Microsoft, the European Commission has now turned its attention to Qualcomm and announced an antitrust investigation involving the mobile giant.
Qualcomm has poured money into its broadcast mobile television system, MediaFLO. Now US carrier AT&T is hoping that consumers will do the same, following the launch of a consumer mobile TV offering based on the Qualcomm tech. Good luck with that.
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A new m-commerce service has moved to exploit existing bar-code scanning and mobile handset technology, with one of Sydney's premier venues poised to use it to process paying patrons for a forthcoming series of concerts.
RealNetworks has publicly disclosed the software blueprint to its streaming media technology in an effort to take on Microsoft.
"Talk, then toss," is becoming a mantra in a small corner of the mobile phone industry. A new breed of wireless handsets, expected to hit the market later this year, is low-cost, extremely easy to use and disposable.
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