A London-based judge has ruled that RIM did not infringe on an e-mail gateway patent filed by Motorola. However, Motorola has filed five more patent infringement claims with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) last January against RIM that involve WiFi technologies, application management, user interfaces, and power management controls. Those claims have not yet been investigated or settled.
AT&T and Sling Media announced that Sling Media’s SlingPlayer Mobile application will now run on AT&T’s 3G network. AT&T noted that it will start running with other content providers to open up its 3G network. “Just as we’ve worked with Sling Media in this instance, we look forward to collaborating with other developers so that mobile customers can access a wider, more bandwidth-sensitive, and powerful range of applications in the future,” Ralph de la Vega, CEO and president of AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets said.
According to the study made by J.D. Power and Associates, the 2009 Wireless Customer Care Performance has ranked Verizon Wireless as the top among the U.S. carriers. On the basis of 9,600 customers, the survey discovers that customers with extended warranties and unlimited calling plans were the ones who are happier with their wireless carrier than those with base plans. Verizon Wireless notched a score of 753, and was tailed narrowly by T-Mobile which had a score of 752. AT&T was ranked about average and was followed by Sprint.
The Symbian Foundation proclaimed that the Symbian operating system is finally an open source and is available for free. Symbian’s source packaging can be downloaded from http://tiny.symbian.org/open. It includes 108 packages of source code in total, and development kits for creating applications and mobile device platforms are also available; both are attuned with Symbian^2, the newest version of the platform that will be completed this quarter.
Late last month, since Nokia has publicized that the Ovi Maps with Navigation would be free for anyone with a supported handset, over 1.4 million downloads of the application has been recorded, with the 1 millionth download passed in the first week. Nokia sees the large number of users as a growing market for third party location-based services developers. Countries including China, Italy, U.K., Germany, and Spain were the top 5 among those who have downloaded the app. Reports have it that the downloads from the aforementioned countries were done mainly for units like Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, the N97 mini, N97, 5230, and the E72.
