Google pinned in Texas patent swamp by Rockstar, the Apple-backed troll
Patent trolling is alive and well deep in Texas where a judge just rejected Google’s request to invalidate old messaging patents under the Supreme Court’s new standards.
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Apple and Microsoft’s patent troll spells trouble for smartphone innovation
Apple and Microsoft are up to no good says antitrust lawyer David Balto. Dropping even the pretense of fairness and competition, the unlikely team have enlisted one of the most aggressive patent trolls to go after the Kodak patent portfolio.
Apple’s share of Nortel patent purchase: $2.6B
It turns out Apple wasn’t just a participant in the consortium that won the auction for Nortel’s patent portfolio: It contributed more than half of the $4.5 billion purchase price.
Nortel’s $4.5 Billion Patent Sale Approved As U.S. Regulators Mull Options
One hurdle faced by the six tech companies hoping to acquire 6,000 mobile patents from bankrupt Nortel Networks has been cleared, as courts…
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Why Google And Android Must Deal With The Mobile Protection Racket
It’s kind of amazing to consider that in just three short years, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) found its answer to critics fond of the “one-trick pony…
Nortel Patent Auction: Yes, Six Winners. And One Big Loser: Google
Nortel’s announcement late Thursday that it has sold a portfolio of 6,000 patents to a consortium consisting of Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), EMC, Eri…
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Six Winners Including Apple, Microsoft Pay $4.5 Billion For Nortel Patents
Nortel’s landmark patent auction has produced a winning bidder, and the only surprise is that it was a team effort: six companies, including…
FAQ: What You Need To Know About Monday’s Mobile Patent Auction
One of the most pivotal events at the intersection of patent law and the mobile industry kicks off on Monday, when the fate of 6,000 patents…
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As Nortel Patent Sale Approaches, Intel Reportedly Wades Into The Fray
As we approach the extended date of the Nortel patent sale, reports of further interested companies are continuing to emerge. The latest is…
Nortel Delays Mobile Patent Auction One Week As Bidders Get Ready
Nortel will delay the start of a closely watched auction of 6,000 mobile patents by a week as it evaluates what it called “a significant lev…
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Google’s Bid For Nortel’s Patents Upheld By DOJ; Auction Set For Next Week
Google’s initial bid for a treasure trove of mobile patents has been cleared by the Department of Justice according to a report, paving the…
Mobile Lowdown 5-18-11: Ericsson/Nortel/Clearwire; Apple Trademark; Lodsys
Our look at some of the stories in mobile today: As news hits of a new outsourcing deal with Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR), Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) c…
The Mobile Lowdown 04-18-11: Adobe; Square; Amazon Tablet; iPhone 5
Our look at some of the big stories in mobile: Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) opens its Flash kimono; Square gets a leg up from Apple; (NSDQ: AAPL) some…
Google Goes Public With Nortel Patent Bid; Selected As Initial Bidder
Hopeful of dissuading further patent lawsuits against its Android partners, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) went public Monday with its intention to bid…
In Its Latest Crusade, Google Takes on Patents
Google has bid $900 million for Nortel’s patents, and in the process, appears to be starting its own war with the patent system. However, underneath its high-minded rhetoric about keeping people free to innovate, Google is beefing up its war chest to ensure control over Android.
How Much Are IP Addresses Worth? A Lot! Just ask Microsoft
Microsoft paid $7.5 million for a block of IP addresses during the bankruptcy auction of Nortel Networks. Nortel’s assets included the block of 666,624 of the IPv4 addresses that ran out last month. Does this set a valuation for the emerging secondary market for such addresses?
What's Left of Nortel Today?
Almost a year after Nortel filed for bankruptcy, we take a look at what’s left of the 114-year-old company that began as Northern Electric and Manufacturing to sell telephones to Canadians. All that remains are some patents and an IP phone joint venture with LG.
Tying Up Loose Ends: Microsoft, Yahoo, Nortel & Avaya
Minutes after the U.S. stock markets started winding down for the weekend, a few technology giants — Avaya, Nortel, Microsoft and Yahoo– made some announcements that amount to nothing more than tying up loose ends.
Ciena Buys Growth With Nortel Metro Ethernet Deal
Ciena (s cien) today beat out Nokia (S NOK) Siemens (S SI) Network to buy bankrupt Nortel’s metro Ethernet business for $769…
Like That Little Engine, Nokia Siemens Thinks It Can Make It
Nokia Siemens, a telecommunications equipment joint venture, plans to lay off up to 5,700 employees, or 7-9 percent of its work force,…
Microsoft: No Restrictions on Windows 7 Version for Netbooks
Microsoft has confirmed to tgdaily that OEMs will be free to install any version of Windows 7 on netbooks. This is a…
Avaya Buys Nortel's IP-PBX Business for $900M
[qi:gigaom_icon_voip] The piece-by-piece sale of fallen Canadian giant Nortel (s nt) continues. Avaya, an enterprise telephony company that was carved out of…
Verizon Wants to Put Kibosh on Nortel-Avaya Deal
Verizon (s vz) has come out against Nortel (s nt) selling its enterprise telephony business to Avaya, which has offered about $475…
Ericsson Agrees to Buy Nortel's Wireless Biz for $1.13B
Ericsson (s ericy) says it has entered into an asset purchase agreement to acquire the parts of the Carrier Networks division of…
mocoNews Quick Hits 7.06.09
» Sprint (NYSE: S) has started subsidizing netbooks for nearly nothing. Will AT&T (NYSE: T) and Verizon (NYSE: VZ) follow? [JK On…
Verizon CEO Seidenberg's Words of Entrepreneurial Wisdom
Ivan Seidenberg, the CEO of Verizon (s VZ), appeared on “The Charlie Rose Show” yesterday talking about the communication company’s plans for…
Subsidized Netbooks Go Nationwide at AT&T
I’m still not sold on the whole netbook subsidy deal, but if you are and you want AT&T (s T) to provide…
Nortel Pension Holders Sue For Payments In Bankruptcy
Former employees and pensioners of Nortel have asked a Canadian judge to order the company to pay them benefits including severance and pens…
Nortel Won't Be Coming Back from Bankruptcy
Nokia Siemens Networks has offered to buy several business units of bankrupt telecommunications gear provider Nortel (s NT), according to the Wall…
Nortel Gets Bids For Biggest Units, Could Dissolve
Beleaguered Canadian giant Nortel Networks has received offeres for its biggest divisions. Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Siemens has put in a bid for No…
Nortel Networks Won't Pay Severance, But Will Pay Executive Bonuses
Eight high-level executives at Nortel Networks, the telecoms equipment maker that filed for bankruptcy protection in January, will share a c…
Nortel Keeps Market Guessing, Will It Sell or Slim Down?
Like any celebrity coyly letting the tabloids speculate about the status of her relationship, the bankrupt Nortel (s NT) seems to have…
Nortel to Cut 3,200 More Workers
Nortel, (s NT) the bankrupt telecommunications gear maker, said today it will lay off an additional 3,200 workers worldwide over the coming…
Let the Breakup of Nortel Begin
Radware (s RDWR), a maker of application delivery equipment, wants to buy a business unit of bankrupt gear maker Nortel Networks (s…
WiMax Axed By Bankrupt Nortel Networks
Nortel Networks said it will no longer support WiMax as it tries to restructure after filing for bankruptcy protection two weeks ago. Reuter…
Ericsson Cuts 5,000 Jobs After Strong Quarter
Today Ericsson (s eric) reported a 31 percent drop in its fourth-quarter profits to 3.9 billion kronor ($465 million), announced 5,000 job…
Nortel Files For Bankruptcy Protection
Telco equipment company Nortel Networks has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in its native Canada and in the U.S. The Toronto comp…
Updated: Nortel Is Bankrupt, More Layoffs Coming
Updated with confirmation, comment from Nortel: In a sign of just how deep the troubles of the troubled telecommunications industry currently run,…
Alcatel Makes Cuts — Will It Help?
Today beleaguered telecommunication equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent (s ALU) said it would cut 2 billion euros ($2.7 billion) in costs between now and…
Nortel Seeks Bankruptcy Advice
According to the Wall Street Journal, telecommunications equipment maker Nortel is talking to lawyers about its strategy, including filing for bankruptcy. This…
Japan's KDDI Adds LTE to the 4G Mix
Japan’s second largest wireless carrier, KDDI, has taken the plunge into the Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard, by building an LTE overlay…
Nokia Siemens Networks Makes Deeper Cuts
Nokia Siemens Networks plans to cut an additional 1,300 employees as part of an overall restructuring. The telecommunications equipment maker has cut about 6,000 workers and plans to lay off a total of about 9,000 before its restructuring is complete.
Nortel Cuts: Layoffs Come to Telco Land
Updated with information about Nortel cuts: Big job cuts are not just for startups. The grim reaper has started to take its…
Motorola Sells LTE With Visions of Mobile Streaming Video
Motorola today said it has demonstrated over-the-air data transmissions using equipment based on the LTE next generation wireless protocol in the recently auctioned 700 MHz spectrum. The equipment will be ready for limited network deployments in 2009.
@ Mobilize: Om Malik Talks With Nortel’s CTO John Roese On The Promise Of 4G
GigaOm’s own Om Malik sits down during Mobilize to talk to Nortel’s CTO John Roese, who he claims is one of his favorite technologists. The…
Mobilize: Nortel CTO John Roese
GigaOM Founder Om Malik just took the stage to grill John Roese, the CTO of Nortel, who promised a world of hyperconnectivity…
Nortel Exits Optical, End of an Era
For those of us who’ve been following the rise of optical networks, today will go down as a red-letter day for the…
More Carriers Upgrading Long-Haul Networks
Today Nortel named two of the customers deploying its new 40G optical long-haul network equipment, begging the question, Why the heck do we need those bandwidth caps? The short answer is, we don’t.
Wireless Hit by Economic Worries
After a few quarters of nonchalant statements that the sub-prime mortgage crisis and rising oil prices weren’t going to affect the tech…
Mobilize 08: More Speakers Added, Early Bird Special To End Soon
We are working hard to prepare for our Mobilize 08 conference scheduled to be held on September 18 in San Francisco. You…
4G Two-Headed Race Continues With Nortel Refocusing on LTE
Just when you think WiMax has regained its standing, it faces another setback. A month ago, WiMax got a big boost when Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR…
When It Comes to Broadband, There's Never Enough
Anyone questioning the need for more fiber or wireless backhaul, or even 4G wireless broadband, need only look at a recent survey…
Nortel Adds Another License To LTE
Nortel has come out saying it will charge “about” a 1 percent royalty rate for its Long Term Evolution patents, although RCR News points out…
4G Wireless & the Ensuing Bandwidth Boom
I sat down this week with John Roese, chief technology officer of Nortel and one of the most astute people I know in the broadband business. Since he seems to have a much better handle on the 4G timeline than others in the wireless industry, I asked him about the wireless backhaul business and the bandwidth demand that LTE will create. Continue Reading
Moto's Slow Death By RAZR Cuts
Motorola has announced the spinout of its handset division, continuing a history of divesting itself from troubled business lines and isolating its…
Feb. 28, 2008: Nortel, About.com & QTrax Again
SAI: About.com CEO Scott Meyer Booted FT: Apple and ZTE Join Ranks of Top 10 Mobile Phone Manufacturers NYTimes: Some Fear the…
Dell Thinks Small Biz is Big Biz for VoIP
Dell begins bundling Fonality’s open-source software with its enterprise servers today, its latest gambit to compete in the already-crowded VoIP market —…
