The consortium that acquired Nortel’s portfolio of around 4,000 tech patents is now putting those patents into battle.
Those patents were bought in March 2012 for $4.5 billion by the Rockstar Consortium, which included Apple, Microsoft, RIM (BlackBerry), Ericsson and Sony.
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Podcast - 16th October 2013
Product news in today's podcast includes Samsung's curved-screen smartphone, an HTC phablet and an update for Windows Phone 8.
We're also talking about malware, roaming charges, Ofcom's licence fees, a drop in mobile revenue, BT's MVNO and a project that sounds... well... silly.
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HTC has announced a large-screen version of its HTC One smartphone.
The HTC One max has a 5.9-inch HD screen and many of the features from the standard HTC One, including the ‘ultrapixel’ 4 megapixel camera.
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Podcast - 9th October 2013
In today's podcast: Samsung's profit, UK mobile ad spending and Vertu's smartphone range are all increasing.
Meanwhile HTC's profit and the proportion of children with mobile phones are both going down. Discover the background to these news stories - and plenty more - in our regular weekly broadcast.
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Compare and contrast
Mark Bridge writes:
Talk about a difference. In preliminary results last week, HTC announced its first-ever quarterly loss while Samsung revealed record quarterly profits.
Curiously, many of the week’s other news stories also had a companion headline to provide a contrast.
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