Our weekly podcast is now online. As well as our regular look at the week's mobile news headlines – including NTP's legal action, faster number portability, O2's improved loyalty scheme and a couple of mergers – we also review the BeeWi solar-powered handsfree car kit.
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NTP Incorporated – co-founded by the late Thomas J Campana, who invented many of the technologies used in wireless email – has filed lawsuits against Apple, Google, HTC, LG Electronics, Microsoft and Motorola in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The company says eight of its patents, which relate to the wireless delivery of electronic mail, have been infringed.
NTP is probably best-known for a lengthy legal case with Research in Motion that's now been settled. The US government was forced to intervene after RIM was ordered to stop infringing the patents, which would have shut down BlackBerry email in the United States.
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