The clipping of Samsung’s wings by the EU clearly shows the problems associated with prosecuting standard essential IPR. Samsung announced yesterday (Dec 18th 2012) that it was withdrawing from all of its actions against Apple in Germany that were seeking an injunction as a remedy for the infringement of its standard essential IPR. It is...
Finally, Samsung’s council has pulled its finger out, producing a result worthy of its reputation. It has all been downhill for Apple since its decisive win over Samsung in August and this latest ruling plumbs new lows. Following the hearing on December 6th, injunctive relief has been denied to Apple on the infringing Samsung...
Finally an innovation from Dell but it needs to be made available to the right customer. For the last few years Dell has appeared to randomly make acquisitions in an attempt to stave off the ravages of hardware commoditisation by branching out into software. To date this hasn’t helped much as the problems that the...
Google map’s return to iOS heralds the irrelevance of Apple maps. It will have been with gritted teeth that Apple allowed Google Maps to return to iOS. Not only has Google brought the world’s best map application back to iOS, but it has also released an SDK (Software Development Kit) that will allow the makers...
Microsoft has a commanding position in the market for PC software but it cannot really afford to antagonise its partners. By making its own hardware, Microsoft risks doing exactly that but the slow take off of Windows 8 appears to be forcing its hand. I have long held the view that the main reason for...
What more evidence does one need of the weaknesses of Android than its lead vendor moving to fix them. This is what Samsung’s Premium suite part II aims to do. I have long been of the opinion that the weakness of Android lies in its usability which I think ranks far behind that of iOS....
The crazy dash to own patents to protect ones business has meant that the prices paid for patents these days have reached crazy levels. One only has to look at Google’s $12.5bn acquisition of Motorola Mobility and the Rockstar consortium’s $4.5bn purchase of the Nortel assets from bankruptcy for evidence of this. This has led...
Apple’s legal strategy became clearer on Friday as it moved to include the Samsung Galaxy SIII and the Samsung Galaxy Note II in its legal crusade to stop Samsung from making money from its innovations. This takes the form of a new complaint that will be heard in March 2014. Once again this exposes the...
The hardy chaps who spun out of Nokia to breathe new life into Meego launched their Sailfish OS yesterday at the Slush start-up event. The company also announced that ST Ericsson would be supporting the OS on its NovaThor platform. This is not as surprising as it sounds like this is a resurrection of the...
Richard is founder, owner of research company, Radio Free Mobile. He has 16 years of experience working in sell side equity research. During his 11 year tenure at Nomura Securities, he focused on the equity coverage of the Global Technology sector.
Black Friday – All online.
The headlines are hiding the realities of a pretty good weekend of retail sales in the US. Purchasing online using PCs, tablets and smartphones saw very strong growth and as evidenced by the scrums in the shops, the US consumer has spent 12.8% more than he did last year. The latest figures show that over...