Something for everyone this Christmas
Mark Bridge writes:
'Twas the week before Christmas, when all thro' the mobile industry
came a sudden burst of news-related activity.
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BlackBerry has reported its financial results for the last quarter, which ended on 30th November 2013.
Revenue for the three-month period was approximately $1.2 billion (£734 million), down 24% quarter-on-quarter from $1.6 billion and down 56% year-on-year from $2.7 billion.
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The Foxconn Technology Group, which produces mobile devices for a number of companies including Apple and Amazon, has announced a partnership that’ll see it working with Mozilla on the Firefox OS open platform.
Foxconn will use Firefox on its own products.
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Podcast - 24th April 2013
There's a diverse collection of mobile-related news in this week's 30-minute podcast.
We start with the new Twitter music service before moving on to discuss quarterly results, patent licensing, wireless charging, advertising and mobile payments... before ending with a curious report about app-controlled underwear.
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Parent of Foxconn is latest company to license patents from Microsoft
Microsoft has agreed a worldwide patent licensing deal with Hon Hai, the parent company of Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Foxconn. It’ll cover Hon Hai for producing smartphones, tablets and smart TVs that use the Android and Chrome operating systems.
Full details are confidential but Microsoft will receive royalties from Hon Hai.
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