Microsoft inks licensing deal with Compal Electronics, 10th deal and climbing

by Robert Nazarian
tagged Compal, lawsuits, licensing, microsoft, ODM, patent troll

You have to hand it to Microsoft, they might not be able to sell phones, but they are going to make a lot of money off of Android. They have already inked deals with the likes of HTC, Samsung, Acer, Quanta, Wistron, General Dynamics Itronix, ViewSonic, Onkyo and Velocity Micro. The list continues to grow [...]

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Sep

2011

Microsoft inks licensing deals with Acer and Viewsonic over Android violations

by Robert Nazarian
tagged Acer, lawsuits, licensing, microsoft, viewsonic, windows, windows phone

A few months ago, Microsoft was able to cut a deal with HTC grabbing $5 per device sold. We know Microsoft can’t make any money selling their own devices so they figured they would steal it from others. It’s kind of like taxing the rich and giving it to the poor. Microsoft is far from [...]

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Jul

2010

Licensing service for Android apps should cut down piracy

by Chris Moor
tagged Android, applications, apps, dev, develop, developers, devs, Download, licensing, paid, piracy, pirate, pirates, steal

Think you’re pretty slick by just finding the stand-alone APK’s for apps that you should’ve paid for? Obviously the developers of those apps are sick of their hardwork being distributed for free, but Google has just implemented a service to help them out. Android’s new licensing service allows the individual app to call Google’s server [...]

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