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29 May 2013, 7:29 pm by Florian Mueller
Last month ZTE became the 20th Android device maker known to have taken a royalty-bearing Android patent license from Microsoft, and Microsoft previously announced license deals involving non-Android variants of Linux (examples: Amazon, Brother, Casio, Kyocera, LG, Samsung).The logic of the SFLC's defense of Google's proposed VP8 patent license agreement as being "compatible with FOSS licensing" also applies perfectly to Microsoft's Android and Linux… [read post]
17 Apr 2017, 12:06 pm by Lawrenz Fares
[official website], owner of Google, and the Russian Federal Anti-monopoly Service (FAS) [official website], reached [FAS press release] an out-of-court settlement with in a dispute over Google's requiring Android phone manufacturers to pre-install its own search tool on Monday. [read post]
24 May 2012, 6:56 am by Michael Haggerson
" Oracle alleged that Google's use of Java in its Android OS violated Oracle's patents and copyrights. [read post]
24 May 2021, 4:15 am by Yeshesvini Chandar
Supreme Court held 6-2 that Google’s copying of 11,500 lines of code from the Java SE Application Programming Interface (API) in creating its Android operating system was a fair use. [read post]
6 Apr 2021, 4:15 am by Gene Quinn
 In the infinite wisdom of the Supreme Court, the copying of this code was found transformative because Google only used it to circumvent the need to license Java from Oracle with respect to Android smartphones. [read post]
13 Aug 2016, 9:33 am by Mark Casper
It is alleged that Google requires mobile-phone producers to pre-load the company's apps on phones using its Android... [read post]
5 Apr 2021, 5:07 pm by Joe Rosenbaum
To create the Android platform, Google programmers wrote millions of lines of new code, but because Google wanted all other programmers, already familiar with Java, to be able to work with its new Android platform, it copied roughly 11,500 lines of code from the Java SE program. [read post]
5 Apr 2021, 5:07 pm by Joe Rosenbaum
To create the Android platform, Google programmers wrote millions of lines of new code, but because Google wanted all other programmers, already familiar with Java, to be able to work with its new Android platform, it copied roughly 11,500 lines of code from the Java SE program. [read post]
30 Jun 2016, 10:00 am by Jani Ihalainen
Google sought to implement Java into its budding mobile operating system, Android, but both parties could not agree on a proper licencing arrangement. [read post]
6 Nov 2007, 8:48 am
There is a ton of hype on the wireless front especially with the announcement of Android, the Google operating system for mobile phones. [read post]
9 May 2022, 11:04 pm by Florian Mueller
Depending on what comes out, Google could even get into serious trouble with the United States Senate.Google's blog post contains some of the same red herrings as always, such as arguing (in other words) that with Android itself being free, Google's Android business model depends on its app tax, and pointing to alternative Android app stores and sideloading, though Epic and the three dozen state attorneys-general suing Google over its… [read post]
13 Feb 2014, 8:12 pm by Florian Mueller
The Microsoft-Voxx agreement is the 26th Android-related royalty-bearing patent license agreement to have become known. 16 of those 21 Micosoft-Android deals (more than three-quarters) have occurred after the Google-Motorola Mobility merger agreement, a fact that proves no one in this industry believed Google was going to be able to secure a "free ride" for Android by cross-licensing Motorola Mobility's patents. [read post]
21 Apr 2014, 8:49 pm by Florian Mueller
So it's not a Microsoft-Google (or Microsoft-Lenovo, since Lenovo will soon own Motorola Mobility's handset business) settlement. [read post]
7 Apr 2021, 9:40 am by Brandon W. Clark
On Monday, the Supreme Court handed Google a win in a long-standing copyright dispute over the software used in the Android mobile operating system. [read post]
19 Dec 2013, 6:06 pm by Parker Higgins
Google briefly included a hidden privacy feature that allowed users to deny certain requested data and access to apps, but has removed it in the latest version of Android. [read post]
4 Dec 2019, 12:47 pm by Marina Chafa
The Android operating system was originally produced by the like-named incorporation which was later purchased by Google in 2005. [read post]
30 Dec 2013, 12:13 am by Florian Mueller
By doing so, Google would officially recognize that the entire Android ecosystem owes Nokia license fees. [read post]
17 Oct 2011, 5:46 am
Google's filing is no different and is obviously made to protect its Android system and platform. [read post]
1 Nov 2022, 11:23 am by Florian Mueller
OutlookIndia.com--citing PTI (Press Trust of India)--reports that Google has decided to appeal the Competition Commission of India's (CCI) recent antitrust decisions:Indian antitrust ruling: "App developers are super dependent on Google" -- device makers choose "between signing a non-negotiable [contract] and commercial failure" -- consumers are "locked-in to [Android]"Competition Commission of India doubles down on Android… [read post]
13 Apr 2014, 5:35 am by Florian Mueller
Four of them are just about Android, and the fifth one, slide-to-unlock, is a feature all Android device makers add to "stock Android" (and it involves mostly Google's program code as well). [read post]