for data usage.
Patrick Hendrix alleges that AT&T is claiming bogus data usage even when an iOS device is left idle and claims that he hired an independent consulting firm to conduct a two month study on AT&T’S practices for data usage.
”. It goes on to describe AT&T’s billing mechanism as a “
rigged gas tank that charges pump that charges for a full gallon when it pumps only nine-tenths of a gallon into your car’s tank.
Based on the (more…)

In a media release published yesterday, Steve Jobs has been quoted as saying:
“We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it. We’ve decided to do something about it. We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours.”
Patent No. 7,362,331:
“Time-Based, Non-Constant Translation Of User Interface Objects Between States”
Patent (more…)

Now, Nokia has fired fresh salvo in this legal dispute. In a complaint that the company has filed with the US International Trade Commission, Nokia has claimed that ”
” of Apple 's products infringe upon seven of Nokia's proprietary innovations. These patents relate to the devices' user interface, camera, antenna and power management technologies.
Noting that Nokia has been one of the pioneers in mobile phone technology, Paul Melin, (more…)

“Apple has infringed and continues to infringe each of the Asserted Patents by engaging in acts constituting infringement under 35 USD § 271, including but not necessarily limited to one or more of making, using, selling and offering to sell, in this District and elsewhere in the United States, and importing into this District and elsewhere in the United States, certain electronic devices, including but not limited to Apple 's
,
,
, iPod (more…)

The lawsuit filed by AT&T has attracted a lot of attention and debate. While the general consensus has been that the ads do portray the ground realities, neutral observers including the Federal Court judge saw merit in AT&T’s claim that the ads were misleading the viewers into thinking that AT&T did not have data and voice coverage outside their 3G network.
has solely been because AT&T subscribers, mainly iPhone users, have been consuming data at
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Shooting down AT&T's remark that the ads were misleading the customers, Verizon has said that its ads only portray the groud realities and AT&T was suing Verizon because truth hurts. In its filing, Verizon says:
Requesting the courts to reject AT&T's request to issue a stay, Verizon further says:
“AT&T may not like the message that the ads send, but this Court should reject its efforts to silence the messenger”
Clearly, Verizon is on (more…)

In the judgement, the federal judge did say that the ads were ”
” but then refused to issue a restraining order until the case comes up again on December 16.
Quite expectedly, AT&T has had a plan B to tackle Verizon till then – in the form of a counter ad. However, instead of clearing the air about
, AT&T has tried to take the bull by its horns and get back equally aggressive. The end result is that the ad leaves the consumer even more confused (more…)

In a recent post made on the website's forum, the company elaborates the reasons why the cellphone numbers were pulled in the first place and how the lawsuit filed against the company lacked any merit.
“We determined that these numbers were being collected as the result of legacy code (old, obsolete code) in the games. The legacy code had been included early in the software development process as a potential way for Storm8 to identify specific (more…)

of $1.67 billion in the same quarter. Perhaps, in a desperate move to even things out, Nokia has sought a 'Robin Hood'-like intervention of the courts to reduce this revenue gap.
In a recent lawsuit filed against Apple at the Federal District Court in Delaware, Nokia alleges that Apple 's iPhone has been infringing on close to ten patents owned by Nokia that relate to GSM, UMTS and Wireless LAN standards. Further, Nokia claims that these (more…)

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For at least the third time this month, Apple and AT&T are being sued by a consumer complaining of being duped into believing that multimedia messaging, or MMS, was already available on the iPhone .

Filed in the Northern District of Ohio on Wednesday (PDF hosted by Wired), plaintiff Deborah Carr says Apple and AT&T misled the public into believing that the iPhone 3GS was capable of sending and receiving (more…)