This week’s podcast is packed with a wide variety of mobile industry news, from quarterly results and boardroom changes to dodgy advertising and smartphones in space.
We talk about Google’s new CEO, Microsoft’s mystery data, Huawei’s legal action, Apple’s downloads and Facebook’s feature phone app.
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There's a new mobile-related legal battle – and this one’s between Huawei and Motorola.
Huawei Technologies has asked a US District Court to prevent Motorola from transferring Huawei's intellectual property to Nokia Siemens Networks.
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Motorola is suing Huawei Technologies for allegedly conspiring with former Motorola employees to steal trade secrets. Huawei has called the complaint "groundless and utterly without merit".
In 2008, Motorola sued five former workers for allegedly taking Motorola information with them when they joined one of Huawei's resellers.
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Gartner's latest report into worldwide mobile phone sales says end-users bought 314.7 million devices in the first quarter of 2010, 17% up on the same period in 2009. Smartphone sales rose 48.7% to 54.3 million units.
Hong Kong-based manufacturer G-Five made its debut in the top 10, while an increase in OEM 'white box' manufacturing has seen the 'others' category increase.
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