7:30 PM
Analysts don't think that Dish has a chance to outbid Sprint for Clearwire, mainly because Sprint owns the majority of Clearwire, so they are speculating about what Dish hopes to get by making this bid--possibilities are a deal for some of Clearwire's spectrum or a possible partnership or hosting deal to help Dish's network get off the ground:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/dish-trumps-sprint-24b-bid-clearwire/2013-01-08
Google dropped its patent lawsuit against Microsoft over Motorola's standards-essential patents for H.264. This sure sounds related to the settlement that Google made with the FTC, which said that Google had to license patents used in standards to willing parties. Microsoft is willing to pay, but not willing to meet Google's price...and now it seems that Google lost some of its bargaining power:
http://allthingsd.com/20130108/google-withdraws-patent-claims-against-microsoft/
The Justice Department and the Patent and Trademark Office issued a joint statement coming out against using standard patents as weapons against other companies:
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/08/justice-department-and-patent-office-issue-policy-statement-on-patents/
Android developer is warning others that people are stealing Android apps and selling them on the BlackBerry App World. RIM has made it really easy to port an Android app to the BlackBerry App World...but RIM is *not* making sure that the app being sold is coming from the actual owner of the Android app:
http://bgr.com/2013/01/08/blackberry-app-world-stolen-android-apps-285705/
Nuance's Project Wintermute hopes to provide a platform agnostic voice recognition service that lives in the cloud. Nuance already provides the technology behind Siri, but this platform would provide voice recognition for Apple, Android, Microsoft, and other platforms:
http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2013/01/09/nuances-project-wintermute-a-virtual-cloud-assistant-that-follows-you-across-ecosystem-boundaries/
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/dish-trumps-sprint-24b-bid-clearwire/2013-01-08
Google dropped its patent lawsuit against Microsoft over Motorola's standards-essential patents for H.264. This sure sounds related to the settlement that Google made with the FTC, which said that Google had to license patents used in standards to willing parties. Microsoft is willing to pay, but not willing to meet Google's price...and now it seems that Google lost some of its bargaining power:
http://allthingsd.com/20130108/google-withdraws-patent-claims-against-microsoft/
The Justice Department and the Patent and Trademark Office issued a joint statement coming out against using standard patents as weapons against other companies:
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/08/justice-department-and-patent-office-issue-policy-statement-on-patents/
Android developer is warning others that people are stealing Android apps and selling them on the BlackBerry App World. RIM has made it really easy to port an Android app to the BlackBerry App World...but RIM is *not* making sure that the app being sold is coming from the actual owner of the Android app:
http://bgr.com/2013/01/08/blackberry-app-world-stolen-android-apps-285705/
Nuance's Project Wintermute hopes to provide a platform agnostic voice recognition service that lives in the cloud. Nuance already provides the technology behind Siri, but this platform would provide voice recognition for Apple, Android, Microsoft, and other platforms:
http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2013/01/09/nuances-project-wintermute-a-virtual-cloud-assistant-that-follows-you-across-ecosystem-boundaries/