The Apple-Samsung Combat Continues

samsung tab and ipadThe biggest legal battle of the technology industry continues with Apple and Samsung trying to obtain injunctions against each other for preventing the sales of the respective phones. The two technology juggernauts have been involved in the legal battle to protect their respective legal rights in 10 countries and the two companies have filed as many as 30 law suits against each other.

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Apple And Google Controversy Over Android

appleRecently apple equipped its I phones with faster chips and better cameras seeking to set its hand set apart from the Googles android smart phones with weather predictions and voice recognition technology. There has also been problem regarding patents claims over the android technology. Google claims that Microsoft and apple have joined hands against it and but Android on fire. More than 550,000 Android devices are activated everyday through a network of 39 manufacturers and 231 carriers. Android and other platforms are competing hard against each other, and that’s yielding cool new devices and amazing mobile apps for consumers. But Android’s success has yielded something else: a hostile, organized campaign against Android by Microsoft, Oracle, Apple and other companies, waged through bogus patents. They’re doing this by banding together to acquire Novell’s old patents and Nortel’s old patents , to make sure Google didn’t get them; seeking $15 licensing fees for every Android device; making it more expensive for phone manufacturers to license Android than Windows Phone 7; Patents were meant to encourage innovation, but lately they are being used as a weapon to stop it. A smart phone might involve as many as 250,000 (largely questionable) patent claims, and the competitors want to impose a tax for these dubious patents that makes Android devices more expensive for consumers. They want to make it harder for manufacturers to sell Android devices. Instead of competing by building new features or devices, they are fighting through litigation.

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