Category archives for: Mobile

Is Apple vs Motorola, Samsung Patent Battle End Near?

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Share Earlier today Roger Chang at cNet reported that Apple has reached out to the two companies it started a bitter and ongoing patent war against. Interestingly, it was reported that Apple had signaled that it was willing to negotiate licensing deals with both companies. TMV certainly hope it is true, yet we find it [...]

Apple v. Motorola In Germany: One iPhone Injunction Ordered, Another One Lifted

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Share Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) in the last 24 hours has been dealt not one but two blows in court cases involving Motorola (NYSE: MMI) and patents in Germany, one involving IP licensing on older iPhone models (not the 4S) and one involving iCloud. However, as the day progressed, an injunction on the sale of the [...]

Apple/Samsung Legal Skirmishes Have A New Player: The European Commission

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Share The ongoing, back-and-forth legal fight that is the Apple/Samsung patent dispute today took on a new dimension in one of its key battlegrounds, when the European Commission launched an antitrust inquiry into Samsung’s technology licensing practices. This looks like the next step along in an investigation that was first launched by the European Commission [...]

Shazam Is Buying Back Its Own Core Patents To Go Multi-Media

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Share In a move illustrating the growing role of technology patents, mobile music service Shazam is buying back some of its intellectual property – six years after it sold it to finance the company. Back in 2005, Shazam sold the IP for its core audio-recognition technology plus related patents to the music royalty collector Broadcast [...]

Updated: Samsung Seeks Injunctions On iPhone 4S, Adds Japan, Australia

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Share More artillery build-up in the battle between Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Samsung. Just days after Apple released its newest handset, the iPhone 4S, to waiting crowds and strong demand, Samsung made good on its word (and our own prediction) and added another two cases to its growing list of injunction requests against Apple products. [...]

Pandora Learns The Hard Way, Mobile Ads Are Still Far From Being A Cash Cow

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Share Being the most popular is not a good enough business model, it seems, when it comes to music mobile apps. Pandora, the music-streaming app, says it is the most-downloaded free music app in both the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) App Store and Android Market in the U.S., but that volume has not translated into a [...]

Apple vs. Samsung

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Share Finally the pathetic anti-consumer patent war begun by Apple is now being thrown right back in their smug face. TMV had wondered how long Samsung would stay timid and Apple was probably hoping the respectful Korean culture would keep Samsung from launching retaliatory action. Well now the grenade has been thrown right back at [...]

Samsung: Two Steps Back And One Step Forward In The Tablet Game

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Share A mixed bag of news for Samsung today that underscores the ups and downs it has faced in its bid to overtake Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and the iPad in the tablet market. On the same day that the Korea-based mobile device maker announced a new LTE-powered tablet, it found out that it has to [...]

Can HTC’s $300M Stake In Beats Electronics Crack Apple’s Music Stronghold?

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Share HTC is taking one more strategic investment in digital content, this time in music. The company today is expected to announce that it is making a $309 million investment in Beats Electronics, a digital audio technology company, which it will incorporate into future products to court music-loving mobile consumers, and attempt to wrest some [...]

Google Motorola Mobility Purchase – Implications For The Music Business?

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Share If you thought Microsoft’s purchase of Skype for $8 billion was large, than Google’s announcement of its deal to buy Motorola Mobility for a price of $12.5 billion dollars was gargantuan (that’s about the yearly revenue of total global music sales). This was a brilliant strategic move by Google in its battle with Apple [...]

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