A German court ordered Apple to stop online sales of its older model iPhones and 3G-enabled iPads, but Apple managed to reverse the ruling within hours. The dust-up stems from a court injunction secured by Motorola Mobility in December after Apple failed to license Motorola wireless patents.
Apple's iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4, but not its latest iPhone 4S, were involved in the dispute, as were all 3G models of the iPad, but not the Wi-Fi-only models.
An Apple spokesperson said Motorola repeatedly refused to license its patents on reasonable terms, despite having declared it an industry standard patent seven years ago. Full story...
After months of waiting, Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) finally closed its acquisition of Motorola Mobility (NYSE:MMI), elevating Dennis Woodside to CEO in place of Sanjay Jha, who is leaving the company (with a $47 million compensation package for 2011).
Zynga is one of the top players in mobile gaming, with its "With Friends" and "-Ville" series regularly topping the list of most downloaded apps for the App Store and Google Play.
Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ) said it hired investment bank Loop Capital Markets to help it manage the proposed sale of its 700 MHz Lower A and B Block licenses.
Sprint Nextel (NYSE:S) said on Thursday it will start shipping the HTC Evo 4G LTE smartphone to customers who pre-ordered the device online.
T-Mobile USA CEO Philipp Humm said the nation's No. 4 carrier does not need to make a deal with another operator and that it is on the right path for growth, echoing comments made last week by Timotheus Höttges, the CFO of parent company Deutsche Telekom.
Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) officially closed its $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility (NYSE:MMI), making the Android smartphone maker a part of its business in the biggest acquisition in Google's history.
Wireless operators are facing a daunting challenge--they have a finite amount of spectrum and a subscriber base with a growing appetite for mobile data.
We are at a unique moment in the wireless industry's trajectory. On the one hand, wireless is growing like gangbusters, globally, across a range of metrics.
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Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) CEO Tim Cook and Samsung Electronics CEO Choi Gee-sung will participate in two days of mediation talks starting today in San Francisco in hopes of putting the long-simmering patent feud between the two companies to rest.