Nokia blames apple for patent violation
Carrying on with it’s legal fight with the American giant apple, Nokia alleged on Tuesday that Apple’s almost all the products violate Nokia’s patents and not just their iPhone.
On Tuesday, Nokia also said that the company has filed a complaint against Apple with the US International Trade Commission.
The Finnish phone making giant Nokia, said that Apple’s iPhone, iPods and also the computers, violate its intellectual property rights.
Earlier, Nokia has sued Apple over the massively popular iPhone, claiming it infringes on 10 of its patents related to phone calls and Wi-Fi access.
Later, apple countered with a fresh lawsuit alleging that Nokia has copied aspects of the iPhone in its own phones.
Nokia’s cheapest Navigator
Mobile phone making giant Nokia has added another handset to its low-end portfolio with the unveiling of Nokia 2710. The new Navigator branded handset comes pre-loaded with Nokia Maps with a lifetime maps license.
Out of the various other features included in it, is the turn-by-turn driving navigation with full voice guidance, which recalibrates routes depending on the driver’s current GPS location.
The new handset from Nokia boasts of a 2.2 inch display and a 2 megapixel camera. Also, there’s a 2GB MicroSD card with the phone which claims an 18 day standby time with 4.3 hour talktime.
The Nokia phone, Nokia 2710 sports a 3.5mm jack as well as a car cradle that the users can use while on the move.
The 2710 Navigation Edition is expected to hit the stands by the second quarter of 2010 for $163 (Rs 7600).
Nokia unveils budget slider phones
Nokia has revitalized its slider phone range with the addition of two new mid-range mobile handsets titled, Nokia 6700 Slide and Nokia 7230.
Both the newly introduced phones are 3G capable and targeted at a specific design conscious consumer. They have been optimized for sharing content over the Internet.
The new Nokia 6700 slide features a 2.2-inch QVGA display, offers 3G connectivity, a 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, dual LED flash and capture key, web browsing. This one is based on S60 operating system. Additionally, the 6700 slide also features FM radio and music player and support for up to 16GB microSD memory card. The phone will be launched in early 2010 and shall be priced at Rs. 11,200.
The second slider Nokia 7230 features a 2.4-inch display, a 3.2 megapixel camera, FM radio, Bluetooth, Xpress audio messaging and 2GB memory. The phone will run on S40, Nokia’s proprietary OS. Nokia 7230 will be available by early 2010 and is expected to be priced around Rs 7,000.
Nokia to cut 220 R&D jobs
Nokia, the world’s largest mobile phone maker, announced on Tuesday that the company is planning to slash around 220 jobs in Japan as part of its plans to streamline its vast research and development operations.
in a statement released on Tuesday, the Finland based company said, “As part of its global efforts to align its research and development (R&D) operations to be in line with its focused portfolio of future products, Nokia will be reducing its R&D activities in Japan.”
Earlier, Nokia announced last week that about 330 employees at its research and development units in Denmark and Finland would be made redundant. At present, the Finnish company employs about 17,000 people in research and development worldwide.
Nokia Siemens to cut 5,800 jobs
World’s largest yet the struggling telecom equipment maker Nokia Siemens Networks aims to cut up to 5,800 jobs and save more than USD 1.48 billion, (1 billion euros) to stay afloat in the market, specially against the Chinese counterparts.
The company is also looking to rejuvenate its operations expecting to gain from its stronger position in offering services to operators.
Pal Zarandy, partner at telecoms consultancy Rewheel observes, “To match the commercial flexibility demonstrated by Chinese vendors, NSN had to cut back its production, R&D and overhead costs.”
Last month market leader Sony Ericsson too reported third-quarter earnings below expectations.
NSN, a joint venture of Nokia and Siemens, said it aimed to cut 500 million euros in annual fixed costs by the end of 2011, slashing up to 5,800 of the firm’s 64,000 staff.
Nokia, SAP to form new company
Nokia Oyj and SAP announced on Tuesday that the two companies are looking forward to a partnership. The two announced that they would be soon establishing a new company providing brand owners technological services to fight multi-billion dollar counterfeit and private product businesses, Original1.
The new firm, Original1, will be headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany, and will be headed by Claudia Alsdorf, who is currently the vice president of SAP Research. The new company is expected to begin operations before the end of the year 2009.
In a statement released on Tuesday, Nokia’s general manager for Commerce, Corporate Development, Antti-Jussi Suominen said, “We see a big business opportunity in brand protection services.”
Both the companies, Nokia and SAP will hold 40 per cent of the new company, while the third partner, German firm Giesecke & Devrient, will hold the remaining 20 percent.
In the partnership, Original1’s services will rely on SAP technology and solutions, while Nokia will deliver mobile authentication software and Giesecke & Devrient will offer security solutions for the entire value chain, the companies said.
Nokia sues Apple over patents infringement
The world’s largest and best known mobile phone maker, Nokia filed a case against Apple on Thursday alleging that the company’s iPhone violates as many as 10 patents for wireless transmission technologies.
Introduced a couple of years back in 2007 by Apple, the iPhone currently uses a couple of industry standards for wireless communications, GSM and UMTS, which was originally developed by Nokia as a as part of a consortium of global telecommunications companies.
According to Nokia, the company had asked Apple several times in the past to license its patents related to these standards. Apple has reportedly refused to do so.
Ilkka Rahnasto, the vice president for legal and intellectual property at Nokia says, “By refusing to agree appropriate terms for Nokia’s intellectual property, Apple is attempting to get a free ride on the back of Nokia’s innovation.”
On the other hand, Steve Dowling, an Apple spokesman, said that the company did not comment on pending litigation.
Samsung unveils 12 megapixel phone
On Monday, world’s largest electronic company, Samsung Electronics, unveiled the world’s first cellphone model with a 12 megapixel camera! Yes, you heard it right! That; 12MP, higher resolution than most digital cameras!
The sale of the latest product from the South Korean company Samsung Electronics is bound to hurt the camera industry badly. Arch rival Nokia, also the world’s top cellphone maker, claims that it is also the largest digicam maker in the world.
The new, Pixon12 model from Samsung is expected to go on sale in Europe later this month. This poses a severe threat for another rival, the struggling Sony Ericsson, who has been touting a 12 megapixel model since February but will only come out with its product in the fourth quarter later this year.
The new phone has a Xenon flash and features a touch auto-focus tracking. It features a fast-image saving feature that lets users take the next photo within about two seconds.
Wanna get one for yourself?
BlackBerry gets own applications store
Following the footsteps of Apple Inc, the BlackBerry manufacturer, Research in Motion Ltd (RIM), is all set to launch its one-stop shop for add-on applications on Wednesday.
BlackBerry App World will be available for download from RIM’s Web site starting at midday, Co-Chief Executive Jim Balsillie of the Waterloo, Ontario-based company announced on Wednesday.
On the other hand, many other key players in the smart phone industry are developing their application stores on similar lines. The company has made available a thousand applications at the launch of its applications store.
BlackBerry App World, unlike its Apple counter part has planned to share revenues with cell phone carriers and allow them to profile themselves by setting up their own stores-within-the-store.
If their carrier chooses to enable that function, the users would be given the facility to charge application purchases to their cell phone bill.
Incidentally, Microsoft Corp announced a day earlier that their carrier stores and billing will be part of its Windows Marketplace for Mobile, an applications store that the software giant is aiming to launch along with their new phones towards the end of the year 2009.
Nokia Corp, which has several application stores, is now planning to combine them all into one. Google Inc runs an Android Marketplace of programs for the T-Mobile G1 phone, which will be joined by other phones running Google’s Android software this year.
Apple granted the patent for iPhone touch-screen controls
US electronics giant Apple Inc. now has its grant for the patent for its iPhone touch-screen controls sanctioned by the government.
Driven by the phenomenal success of the Apple’s product many companies including RIM, Nokia and Synaptics were in the line of launching a similar product of their own. However, winning the patent for its iPhone, Apple has legally succeeded in its attempt to halt its iPhone competitors from using the similar technology and there by restricting their efforts to come up with refined iPhones.
US Patent 7,479,949, which was issued on the 20th of Jaunuary, has been awarded to “(Steve) Jobs et al” for a method of “detecting one or more finger contacts with the touch screen display” to command computing devices. The good news was followed by the company’s official announcement of their all-time high quarterly profits, a day later.
“We think competition is good. We are ready to suit up and go against anyone. However, we will not stand for having our IP ripped off and will use whatever weapons at our disposal”, said the elated chief operating officer Tim Cook, hailing the iPhone as ‘Apple’s intelectual property’.
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