Apple wins suspension of Motorola ban on iPad and iPhone sales

Apple has been granted a temporary suspension of a sales ban imposed on some iPhones and iPads in Germany.

Enforcing a December patent infringement ruling, Motorola on Friday 3 February forced Apple to remove several iPad and iPhone models from its online store.


Apple's iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 were affected, but not the iPhone 4S. All 3G models of the iPad were involved, but not their Wi-Fi-only counterparts.

An appeals court later lifted the ban after Apple made a new licence payment offer, but patent lawyers believe the suspension may last only a few days or weeks, according to the BBC.

Apple said in a statement that it had appealed against the ban "because Motorola repeatedly refuses to license this patent to Apple on reasonable terms, despite having declared it an industry standard patent seven years ago".

However, Motorola indicated that it would try to restore the ban. "Although the enforcement of the injunction has been temporarily suspended, Motorola Mobility will continue to pursue its claims against Apple,” the company said in a statement.

Communications patent dispute
In a separate case, Motorola has won a ruling that Apple’s iCloud and MobileMe services infringe a patent relating to a two-way communications.

If Motorola enforces the ruling, some iPhone users in Germany will lose the ability to automatically receive e-mails as soon as they have been sent.

This patent is not considered to be critical to an industry standard, so Motorola does not have to license the technology to Apple, even if the iPhone-maker offers to pay.

Apple said that it believed the patent involved was invalid and that it would appeal against the ruling.

Although the two cases only apply to Germany, they may have implications for other European lawsuits, because courts must explain why they have reached a different conclusion to a court in another EU member state.

Getting your business out there

Hi all
It’s “That Man” again (The Mad Hatter) bring you more tips and more tech stuff. I liked to talk you about getting your company out there on the Internet. Now you hear and see lot of adverts telling about all the different ways of marketing your company and they are all good but they can be very expensive. And if you a new start-up and you have not got a lot of cash !!!!! it’s double hard.
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The Steve Jobs story Apple

Hi All Well i am a big fan of Apple and the products so forgive for this artitle.
I have most Apple products and we at DNS-DIRECT are sad to see Steve Jobs go But the products are still great so here is the story of Steve Jobs.
Big Thank you to Computer Weekly
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How green IT can help develop skills in the right areas

Hi All  just a little taster on how Green IT can help your company in many ways.
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In 2010, a global survey of business leaders revealed that, despite a challenging economic environment, organisations were continuing, and even increasing activity on climate change and sustainability (see panel below)

Climate change programmes
• Over two thirds of organisations already had a climate change programme in place
• The top driver of these programmes was energy costs, closely followed by changes in customer demand and new revenue opportunities.
• 70% of organisations planned to increase their spend on climate change and sustainability between 2010 and 2012; top investments listed were investing in energy efficiency, development of new products and services, and transparency in corporate reporting.
Yet it was clear from comments and responses from survey participants that, despite clear business drivers, increasing budgets and planned initiatives, organisations were struggling with execution.

Sustainability has a key role to play in the economic recovery and the future, not simply in response to global or national regulations but also to revenue opportunities and customer demand, and to be competitive in emerging and developing markets.

Bringing sustainability and IT together via green IT has already achieved some notable successes. One example is that of the search for significant and immediate costs savings during the recession. This accelerated the adoption of new technologies to enable virtual meetings and collaboration, to reduce large travel costs. Many organisations captured tangible and measurable business value delivered by those investments in cost savings and contribution to sustainability targets. And these benefits resulted directly from collaboration between business and IT on sustainable IT-enabled business processes.

Those organisations which have already recognised the business potential and imperative of climate change and sustainability, and have a programme in place, should revisit their plans now to take stock, review the business drivers and objectives, and set objectives and targets. Those who have only targeted easily obtainable goals, silo'd activities or who have not even started a programme, should seize the opportunity to establish one or progress their current project as a clear opportunity to reduce costs, enhance reputation and exploit growth opportunities.

IT's role in this is not only to meet sustainability targets where it has direct control but, more importantly, to enable and accelerate the business response to meet its targets.