A court in Florida said that Apple and Motorola Mobility have no interest in quickly and efficiently resolving a patent infringement lawsuit, but are instead using their litigations around the world as "a business strategy that appears to have no end."
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Top vendors including Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo and Fujitsu have announced consumer and business laptops that will use Intel's new Centrino 2 platform, which is being introduced on Monday. Centrino 2 boasts speedier processors, improved mobility features and support for high-definition graphics.
A U.S. judge ruled Thursday that Motorola Mobility is entitled to substantially less royalties than it wanted from Microsoft for the company's use of wireless and video-encoding patents in its Xbox products.
Last time we began reporting on product developments timed to coincide with Interop 2007, today we highlight separate announcements focused on fixed mobile convergence and enterprise mobility from Cisco and DiVitas Networks.
Enterprises are increasingly mobilizing their workforces, but at the risk of opening themselves up to more hacker attacks, loss of sensitive data and less management control.
Network access control is the process of controlling users' and devices' access to a network. Because of increased employee mobility and the growing number of end-user network-capable devices, tracking and controlling network access has become essential to maintaining data security in corporate networks.
It only makes sense that as the service provider market consolidates, so too does the industry supply chain. With service providers focusing on broadband, enterprise customers and mobility, further consolidation is likely. With a smaller number of more powerful buyers of telecom equipment, it's natural that there will be a smaller number of equipment vendors. Which brings us to Alcatel and Lucent.
Ahead of the one-year anniversary of the White House's digital government strategy, a new study from the Mobile Work Exchange takes stock of how agencies are pressing ahead with mobility plans.
The U.S. International Trade Commission has turned down a request for a ban on Microsoft's Xbox after finding that the gaming device did not infringe a patent owned by Google's Motorola Mobility unit.
Vendors at this week's VoiceCon Spring 2007 conference say they want to extend the reach of corporate VoIP technology to mobile users, while making VoIP a more integral part of other corporate applications.
To finish up our mini-series on how at how IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) architectures and Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) technology can complement each other, we'll wrap up today with an interview with Emma Mohr-McClune, senior analyst for enterprise mobility at Current Analysis, about the state of fixed mobile convergence (FMC).
Wireless LAN equipment maker Trapeze Networks has been busy lately, and this week the company demonstrated "seamless" mobility between a Wi-Fi network and a cellular network.
Numerous behavioral risks taken by employees in increasingly distributed and remote locations can lead to the loss of corporate information, according to a study commissioned by Cisco.
As mobile device shipments overtake those of PCs, cross-platform tool developer Xamarin hopes to get more enterprises to adapt their apps for Android and iOS with the help of its .Net Mobility Scanner.
Orange Business Services is expanding its enterprise mobility offerings through a new partnership with iPass, a leading provider of software and services for managing and securing remote access to networks via laptops and handhelds.
In 2005, noted New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman published a bestseller titled The World is Flat. What he was trying to articulate is the way communications technology (especially real-time collaboration and mobility) has leveled the playing field and minimized the impact of geography and distance.
Nobody could accuse Canonical of resting on its laurels. The business side of Ubuntu – the best-known desktop Linux distribution – has expanded aggressively into mobility, pushed forward with a new desktop environment, and continued to release new versions of the flagship OS over the past few years.
The Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum - a group that wants to standardize Linux technology for the cell phone industry - received a boost to its membership last week with the addition of ZTE, the large Chinese handset maker, and Texas Instruments.
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For the past three years, I’ve conducted an extensive research benchmark assessing VoIP and convergence. And I’ve followed the VoIP market since writing one of the industry’s first in-depth stories on the topic back in 1994. Year after year, I learn about sophisticated rollouts, unique applications of VoIP and converged applications, and interesting business drivers, such as IP-enabling contact centers, enabling mobility, or establishing business continuity.
One the most powerful drivers behind convergence is "mobility." In fact, in the soon-to-be-released "Webtorials State-of-the-Market 2005/2006 Voice over IP Report," the provision of mobility and flexibility to employees topped the list of expected benefits from implementing a converged network. And it is a given that a huge percentage of this mobility will come from the melding of the "business" and the "residential" workplace.
A Motorola Mobility patent that was successfully used to force Apple to turn off its iCloud push email services for users in Germany last year could be invalid, the District Court in Mannheim, Germany, said on Friday.