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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In The Fonecast feature this week we're looking at mobile applications and trying to work out exactly what makes a good app.
We start by talking to Colin McCaffery, Product and Technology Director at 2ergo, before calling Carsten Frien, CEO & Co-Founder of madvertise.
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In this special feature we look at the current state of mobile applications and try to discover what makes a good app. You'll hear contributions from madvertise CEO Carsten Frien and 2ergo Product & Technology Director Colin McCaffery.
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Canalys has forecast that direct revenue to mobile app stores from the sale of apps, in-app purchases and subscriptions will reach $14.1 billion next year, up 92% from this year's anticipated total of $7.3 billion. The increase is expected to continue for the next few years, reaching $36.7 billion by 2015.
This equates to a four-year compound annual growth rate of almost 50%.
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China's ZTE Corporation says it expects to ship more than 80 million handsets this year, up from 60 million units in 2010.
In addition it says it's sold more than two million ZTE Blade handsets, a phone that’s also known as the Orange San Francisco in the UK and the Softbank Venus in Japan.
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