Nortel Networks Limited has auctioned all Nortel's remaining patents and patent applications to a consortium of Apple, EMC, Ericsson, Microsoft, Research In Motion and Sony.
The consortium's bid was $4.5 billion; RIM has confirmed its portion of the deal is approximately $770 million.
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Some of the UK's largest technology and media companies are working together to see if unused TV spectrum could be used as an alternative to WiFi and mobile data.
The BBC, BSkyB, BT, Microsoft, Nokia and Samsung are among the companies that have formed the Cambridge TV White Spaces Consortium.
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Mark Bridge writes:
Online financial news and commentary site 24/7 Wall St has published a list of ten brands it thinks will disappear next year. Among those named on the list of doom are Nokia and Sony Ericsson.
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This week's edition of The Fonecast looks back at Monday's big Apple announcements before talking about 4G interference on televisions, Windows on tablets, Acer's problems, a new price comparison site and a mountain rescue that was helped by a cameraphone..
Click here to hear this week's show on our website - or download the podcast automatically from iTunes.
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Mark Bridge writes:
I'll start with a personal comment. One of my friends has described my music taste as eclectic - and he didn't mean that in a good way. It probably explains why I've been sitting at my desk singing "melty head" to the tune of Lady Gaga's "Poker Face".
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