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The Most Innovative Tech Companies Based On Patent Analytics

The Most Innovative Tech Companies Based On Patent Analytics

By Louis Columbus on December 23, 2019

Microsoft, Apple, and IBM lead the world in hardware & software patent innovation according to PatentSight. Samsung, Johnson & Johnson, LG Electronics. Alphabet, Qualcomm, Ford, Intel, Microsoft, Sony, and VW are the ten most innovative companies in the world, according to PatentSight’s patent analytics research. Ford leads the global automotive industry in patent innovation, due […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged apple, Fanuc, ford, ibm, intel, Johnson & Johnson, LG Electronics. Alphabet, Louis Columbus' blog, microsoft, Most innovative companies of 2019, Patents, PatentSight, Qualcomm, samsung, Sony, VW

Read My Lips: We Are Not Walking Away from WebOS

Read My Lips: We Are Not Walking Away from WebOS

By Jeff Nolan on August 19, 2011

Today comes news leaked from an internal HP all hands meeting that the company is not abandoning WebOS, 15 months after acquiring it for $1.2 billion. This is how we get all our news about HP these days, leaked memos and meeting soundbites. Watch for two main arguments being presented, the first by the tech […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged android, hp, HTC, microsoft, palm, Patents, samsung, Smartphone, Uncategorized, webos

Google Announces the Intent to Acquire Motorola Mobility

Google Announces the Intent to Acquire Motorola Mobility

By Michael Fauscette on August 15, 2011

Falling squarely in the Monday morning wow, that’s a surprise, category, Google announced that it intends to acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5B in cash. The obvious move to compete head to head with Apple, also helps Google offset the recent acquisition of the Nortel patents by a consortium that included Microsoft, RIM and Apple, but […]

Posted in Business | Tagged android, apple, google, mobile, motogoog, Motorola Mobility, Patents

Enterprise headlines and excerpts, 15-31 March 2011

Enterprise headlines and excerpts, 15-31 March 2011

By Dennis Moore on April 1, 2011

Oracle has a phenomenal quarter. Paul Allen disses Bill Gates. Patent, trademark, and IP issues galore. Salesforce.com continues cash-based acquisition spree. HP continues rolling out its new strategy. HP and Oracle continue their war. Gosling joins Google. CIOs want to reduce the number of applications they maintain. IBM turns 100. World political turmoil and aftermath […]

Posted in Business, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Bill Gates, google, hp, ibm, Java, Larry Ellison, Léo Apotheker, microsoft, news, oracle, Patents, Paul Allen, salesforce.com

On HTML5 killing Flash

On HTML5 killing Flash

By Michael Coté on August 30, 2010

There’s an HTML5 killing Flash scab that keeps getting pulled off, every 1-2 months or so. In the most recent round, as I often do, I answered several question from a reporter (Howard Win in Computerworld) on the topic. The resulting story was pretty comprehensive and interesting. Here’s the questions (from Howard), and my full […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged adobe, drm, flash, HTML5, Patents, RIA, Video

The Fallacy called Patents -Time To Discipline!

The Fallacy called Patents -Time To Discipline!

By Sadagopan on August 7, 2010

Vivek Wadhwa writes,”Patents make a lot of sense in many industries; they are needed to protect the designs of important components or design of physical products. But in software these are just nuclear weapons in an arms race. They don’t foster innovation, they inhibit it. He adds, That’s because things change rapidly in this industry. […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Emerging Models, innovation, intellectual property, Patents, technology

NTP is the New SCO

NTP is the New SCO

By Zoli Erdos on July 9, 2010

NTP, the shell company whose only business is to extract ransom from real businesses does not sit on the $600 they extorted from RIM.  They are now suing just about all the smartphone industry: Apple, Google, HTC, Microsoft, LG and Motorola. Is NTP the new SCO? Related posts: NTP Sues Apple, Google, Microsoft And Others […]

Posted in Business | Tagged apple, cellular, extortion, google, HTC, intellectual property, ip, Lawsuit, lg, microsoft, mobile market, motorola, ntp, patent troll, Patents, sco, Smartphones, Wireless

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