reports that Apple filed a letter with the European Telecommunications Standards Institute, asking for governing rules on the FRAND (fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory) licensing of patents essential to manufacture a mobile phone.
. Many of these patents have, over time, become a part of industry-wide standards which most mobile devices support. Standard bodies require these patents to be licensed on FRAND terms, but Apple , in the letter, (more…)

Yesterday, we were quite surprised when
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that prevented the sale of 3G iOS devices that infringed on Motorola’s patent.
1. How much royalty is Motorola demanding from Apple for the standard-essential wireless patents?
Apple had tried to use the “FRAND” defense, claiming that the patent was essential to the 3G standard and needed “fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory” terms for licensing it, but had failed to convince the judge last time (more…)

“I also uploaded a new version of APT I've been working on: it has an optimized cache generator and more error tolerant repository parsing.
I improved APT's cache generator (most of “Reloading Data”). On my 3G[S], this dropped from 22s to just 2.2: 10x improvement.”
“This means less error screens when connecting to repositories that might have an error at that particular moment, which used to end up causing Cydia users a ton of grief, (more…)