By Diane Bartz

WASHINGTON |
Fri May 18, 2012 7:17pm EDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Some Motorola Mobility smartphones infringe on a Microsoft patent and will be barred from importation to the United States, a U.S. trade panel said on Friday.

The order by the U.S. International Trade Commission has been sent to President Barack Obama, who has 60 days to consider whether to overturn it for policy reasons.

The legal fight at the ITC is one of dozens globally between various smartphone makers. Google’s Android system has become the top-selling smartphone operating system, ahead of mobile systems by Apple, Microsoft, Research in Motion and others.

On Wednesday, some of HTC’s smartphone models were stopped at the U.S. border because it lost a patent dispute with Apple at the ITC in December. Shares in HTC tumbled more than 6 percent on news that shipments of the phones were being held up by U.S. customs.

The ITC order did not say which models of Motorola Mobility smartphone were affected but Microsoft has asked for the following devices to be stopped at the U.S. border: the Atrix, Backflip, Bravo, Charm, Cliq, Cliq 2, Cliq XT, Defy, Devour, Droid 2, Droid 2 Global, Droid Pro, Droid X, Droid X2, Flipout, Flipside, Spice and the Xoom tablet.

The patented technology at issue makes it possible for users to generate meeting requests and schedule gatherings using their mobile devices.

One option for Motorola Mobility will be to remove the meeting-scheduling technology from its smartphones and tablets. The company could also license it from Microsoft.

Motorola Mobility, which is in the process of being acquired by Google, said the company would not feel any near-term impact.

“Although we are disappointed by the commission’s ruling that certain Motorola Mobility products violated one patent, we look forward to reading the full opinion to understand its reasoning,” the company said in an emailed statement. “We will explore all options including appeal.”

Both sides can appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Microsoft said it was pleased with the decision. “We hope that now Motorola will be willing to join the vast majority of Android device makers selling phones in the US by taking a license to our patents,” a company spokeswoman said via email.

In a complaint filed in October 2010 with the ITC, Microsoft accused Motorola Mobility of infringing nine patents for Windows Mobile and Windows Phone.

Two patents were dropped during litigation. An ITC administrative law judge in December found that Motorola Mobility infringed on one Microsoft patent in making Android cellphones but did not infringe on six others.

Google’s Android software has recently become the most popular cellphone operating system with 56 percent of the market in the first quarter of 2012, according to data from Gartner Inc.

Motorola, which makes Android phones, is one of the smaller mobile phone makers with 8.4 million units sold globally in the last quarter, according to Gartner.

The ITC is a popular venue for patent litigation since it has the power to forbid the importation of products that infringe on patents.

The case at the ITC is No. 337-744.

(Reporting By Diane Bartz; Editing by Tim Dobbyn, Gary Hill)

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NEW YORK |
Thu May 17, 2012 4:43pm EDT

NEW YORK (Reuters) – ATT Inc is hoping to help its margins by lowering smartphone subsidies and the company also aims to boost revenue with a new offering that would allow consumers to share their data allowance between tablets and smartphones.

Now that growth is slowing for U.S. contract customer operators, including No. 2 U.S. mobile operator ATT and its rivals Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel Corp are looking for new avenues for expansion, while they try to control costs. Verizon Wireless is a venture of Verizon Communications and Vodafone Group Plc

ATT has already said it would keep 2012 smartphone sales limited to 2011 levels to cut down on upgrade costs. Like its rivals, ATT shoulders some of the cost of smartphones to offer discounts to customers who sign on for two years.

Ralph de la Vega, the head of the company’s mobile business, also suggested he would push to reduce subsidies for the phones it does sell. He declined to give a specific estimate for subsidy levels.

“But you can take it to the bank that our thrust is to lower that in every case that we can,” he said during a webcast of an investor meeting on Thursday.

ATT customers currently have to sign on for separate data plans for every wireless device they want to connect to its network. But this could change, according to de la Vega, who discussed linking wireless data plans between tablet computers and smartphones.

“What we need to be able to do is to allow customers to connect those tablets to some of the existing data plans that they have to be able to share them in a way that will drive more revenue for us, but also give a good deal to customers,” he said.

ATT’s comment follows rival Verizon Wireless, which has already said it plans to unveil shared data plans this summer.

Analysts have long said operators would need to change their data pricing structure to encourage consumers to connect their tablets to cellular networks. Most tablet users make do with Wi-Fi connections because they want to avoid signing up for a second data plan.

(Reporting by Sinead Carew in New York and Jim Finkle in Boston; editing by Andre Grenon)

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By Sinead Carew

NEW YORK |
Thu May 17, 2012 6:30pm EDT

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Verizon Wireless plans to make its data-hungry customers pay a lot more, either in service fees or smartphone prices, as it tries to cut costs and boost revenue from data services.

The No. 1 U.S. mobile provider said it will eliminate unlimited data plans for all customers who upgrade their cellphone at a discounted rate, potentially driving more business to its smaller rival Sprint Nextel (S.N).

Only customers who pay full price for their cellphones will be able to keep unlimited data service plans for a flat monthly fee of $30 a month.

Spokeswoman Brenda Raney explained the new policy a day after a top company told an investor conference that customers moving to Verizon’s high-speed network would have to give up their unlimited data plans.

To convince customers to sign a 2-year contract, Verizon typically shoulders some of the cost of their smartphone in the form of a subsidy it pays to the handset vendor. Today customers who want to keep their unlimited data plan can still get the handset discount.

But when the company kicks off a new shared data plan this summer, any customers upgrading to a discounted handset will have to change from an unlimited plan to a shared data plan whose fees increase with data usage.

This will affect customers on both Verizon’s older third generation network and those on its fastest fourth generation service, according to Raney.

Customers will be able to keep their unlimited plan as long as they stick with the same smartphone. But when that phone gets too old, the only customers who will be able to keep their unlimited plan are those who pay the full retail handset price.

This would mean a price increase of several hundreds of dollars for high end smartphones.

For example, the full price of the cheapest Apple Inc (AAPL.O) iPhone 4G is $650, compared with the $200 price for customers who take the discount. The full price for the Motorola Mobility (MMI.N) Droid 4 phone is $550 versus $200 for customers who take the discount.

The shared data plans will allow customers to sign up for a single plan covering more than one gadget, including smartphones and tablet computers.

Verizon Wireless, a venture of Verizon Communications (VZ.N) Vodafone Group Plc (VOD.L), has declined to provide any additional details about its shared data plans.

Under today’s pricing Verizon Wireless customers without unlimited plans pay $30 a month for 2 gigabytes of data, $50 for 5 gigabytes and $80 for 10 gigabytes. If they use more than their allowance they are charged at higher rate.

Smaller rival ATT Inc (T.N) said it also wants to offer a shared data plan. No. 3 U.S. mobile provider Sprint still offers unlimited data plans.

Analysts have said that wireless operators needed to introduce shared plans if they are to convince consumers to connect devices like tablets to the cellular network.

(Reporting by Sinead Carew; Editing by Richard Chang)

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By Poornima Gupta

Thu May 17, 2012 7:21pm EDT

(Reuters) – Apple Inc (AAPL.O) plans to power its main U.S. data center entirely with renewable energy by the end of this year, taking steps to address longstanding environmental concerns about the rapid expansion of high-consuming computer server farms.

The maker of the iPhone and iPad said on Thursday it was buying equipment from SunPower Corp (SPWR.O) and startup Bloom Energy to build two solar array installations in and around Maiden, North Carolina, near its core data center.

Once up, the solar farm will supply 84 million kWh of energy annually. The sites will employ high-efficiency solar cells and an advanced solar tracking system.

The two solar farms will cover 250 acres, among the largest in the industry, Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer told Reuters. Apple plans on using coal-free electricity in all three of its data centers, with the Maiden facility coal-free by the end of 2012.

“I’m not aware of any other company producing energy onsite at this scale,” Oppenheimer said in a telephone interview.

“The plan we are releasing today includes two solar farms and together they will be twice as big as we previously announced, thanks to the purchase of some land very near to the data center in Maiden, which will help us meet this goal.”

Shares in SunPower leaped more than 10 percent to close at $5.59 on Thursday, and tacked on a 6-cent after-hours trading gain on top of that.

Concerns about the ever-expanding power consumption of computer data centers have mounted in recent years, as technology giants build enormous facilities housing servers to cater to an explosion in Internet traffic, multimedia use and enterprise services hosting, via cloud computing.

“Our next facility will be in Prineville, Oregon. This is still in the planning stages and we have already identified plenty of renewable sources nearby,” Oppenheimer said.

“We haven’t finalized our plans for on-site generation, but any power we need to run our center in Prineville that we get from the grid will be 100 percent renewable and locally generated sources,” the Apple CFO said.

SWITCHING TACK

SunPower, now majority-owned by France’s Total SA (TOTF.PA), makes the most efficient solar panels in the world, according to industry analysts.

Prices for solar panels – particularly at large-scale solar plants like the one Apple envisions – have been dropping rapidly, narrowing the gap with the cost of fossil fuel power. Analysts say that may encourage some corporations to switch.

“SunPower will take a bite out of Apple’s environmental impact with our highest efficiency solar at their North Carolina data center, the nation’s largest privately-owned solar array,” SunPower CEO Tom Werner said via email.

Several activist groups have expressed their concerns over the use of “dirty” power by Apple’s data centers, which support its Internet storage and service-hosting service iCloud. Several members of Greenpeace staged a protest this week at Apple’s Cupertino campus using a giant “iPod.”

Greenpeace, which has also targeted Amazon.com (AMZN.O) and Microsoft (MSFT.O) with clean energy campaigns, saluted Apple’s decision.

“Apple’s announcement today is a great sign that Apple is taking seriously the hundreds of thousands of its customers who have asked for an iCloud powered by clean energy, not dirty coal,” Greenpeace International Senior IT Analyst Gary Cook said in a statement.

(Writing by Poornima Gupta and Edwin Chan; Editing by Tim Dobbyn, Gary Hill)

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By Reiji Murai

TOKYO |
Wed May 16, 2012 4:06pm EDT

TOKYO (Reuters) – Apple Inc plans to use a larger screen on the next-generation iPhone and has begun to place orders for the new displays from suppliers in South Korea and Japan, people familiar with the situation said on Wednesday.

The new iPhone screens will measure 4 inches from corner to corner, one source said. That would represent a roughly 30 percent increase in viewing area, assuming Apple keeps other dimensions proportional. Apple has used a 3.5-inch screen since introducing the iPhone in 2007.

Early production of the new screens has begun at three suppliers: Korea’s LG Display Co Ltd, Sharp Corp and Japan Display Inc, a Japanese government-brokered merger combining the screen production of three companies.

It is likely all three of the screen suppliers will get production orders from Apple, which could begin as soon as June. That would allow the new iPhone to go into production as soon as August, if the company follows its own precedent in moving from orders for prototypes for key components to launch.

Apple’s decision to equip the next iPhone with a larger screen represents part of a competitive response to Samsung Electronics Co Ltd.

Samsung unveiled its top-of-the line Galaxy smartphone with a 4.8-inch touch-screen and a faster processor earlier this month.

With consumers becoming more and more comfortable using smartphones for tasks they once performed on laptops, like watching video, other smartphone manufacturers have also moved toward bigger displays.

AESTHETICS AND DESIGN

A likely shakeup in the design of a larger-screen iPhone could go a long way in boosting its “wow” factor, convincing fans to trade in their old iPhones for new ones, said Shaw Wu, an analyst at Sterne Agee.

“Not only do users pay for features, but they also pay for aesthetics and design. That’s as important, or more important, than features,” Wu said. “People love the current design — but it’s 18 months old.”

The latest iPhone 4S was introduced in October of last year and essentially has the same form factor as the iPhone 4, launched in 2010.

Samsung, which this year became the world’s largest cell phone maker, sold 45 million smartphones in the first quarter, and sales of the Galaxy phones outstripped the iPhone.

Apple was not immediately available to comment.

Apple’s move toward a larger display for the next generation iPhone was earlier reported by the Wall Street Journal.

In addition to being Apple’s rival, Samsung is also a major components supplier to the U.S. computer, tablet and phone manufacturer.

The share of the production of new screens that go to each of the three manufacturers working with Apple has not been determined, one source said.

Sales of the touch-screen iPhone now account for about one-half of Apple’s total sales, and the phone has been a key source of growth for the company in Asia.

A report in March by a South Korea business newspaper said Apple would use a “retina” display on the next iPhone, the same technology in its latest iPad that enhance image quality.

(Reporting By Reiji Murai and Mari Saito; additional reporting by Noel Randewich in San Francisco; editing by Kevin Krolicki, Ron Popeski and Jeffrey Benkoe)

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By Dan Levine

SAN FRANCISCO |
Tue May 15, 2012 3:14pm EDT

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A California jury began another round of deliberations on Tuesday in a high profile trial over allegations that Google’s Android mobile platform violates Oracle’s intellectual property rights.

The jury has already wrestled with Oracle’s copyright claims against Google and delivered a partial verdict last week. Now, jurors are mulling Oracle’s patent claims, but the potential patent damages appear far less than what is involved in the copyright allegations.

Oracle sued Google in August 2010, saying Android infringes on its intellectual property rights to the Java programming language. Google says it does not violate Oracle’s patents and that Oracle cannot copyright certain parts of Java, an “open-source,” or publicly available, software language.

The trial in San Francisco federal court has been divided into three phases: copyright liability, patent claims, and damages.

In court on Tuesday, attorneys for both companies made their closing arguments on patents. Oracle attorney Michael Jacobs said it does not matter that Oracle’s patents only cover certain small parts of Android.

“You don’t avoid infringement because Android is big,” Jacobs said, adding that Google’s conduct was reckless.

Google attorney Robert Van Nest said the company designed Android from scratch, and that there is no evidence Google encountered the patented technology until Oracle threatened litigation.

“There’s not a single document, not an email,” Van Nest said.

While Oracle is seeking roughly $1 billion in copyright damages, the patent damages in play are much lower. Before trial, Google offered to pay Oracle roughly $2.8 million in damages on the two patents remaining in the case, covering the period through 2011, according to a filing made jointly by the companies.

For future damages, Google proposed paying Oracle 0.5 percent of Android revenue on one patent until it expires this December and 0.015 percent on a second patent until it expires in April 2018. Oracle rejected the settlement offer.

During trial, U.S. District Judge William Alsup revealed that Android generated roughly $97.7 million in revenue during the first quarter of 2010.

The jury found last week that Oracle had proven copyright infringement for parts of Java. But the jury could not unanimously agree on whether Google could fairly use that material.

Without a finding against Google on that fair use question, Oracle cannot recover damages on the bulk of its copyright claims. Alsup has not yet decided on several legal questions that could determine how a potential retrial would unfold.

The case in U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, is Oracle America, Inc v. Google Inc, 10-3561.

(Reporting By Dan Levine; Editing by Tim Dobbyn)

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By Noel Randewich

SAN JOSE, California |
Tue May 15, 2012 4:17pm EDT

SAN JOSE, California (Reuters) – Nvidia Corp Chief Executive Jen-Hsun Huang wants his graphics chips to be adopted in data centers to help stream better graphics to smartphones and tablets, his company’s newest bid to diversify beyond personal computers.

Huang showed programmers and engineers at an industry event new technology adapting Nvidia’s Kepler graphics processors, or GPUs, for cloud computing.

“For the first time we have virtualized the GPU,” Huang said. “One GPU can now be shared with countless users.”

Huang, who cofounded Nvidia, showed demonstrations of a game with high-end graphics run from servers and played on mobile devices. The challenge Nvidia is tackling is to keep games fast and responsive even when they are played over data centers and across wireless carriers’ networks.

Keenly aware of explosive growth in tablets, smartphones and cloud computing, Nvidia is looking beyond its core business of designing chips that make games and videos look better on PCs.

Along with larger rival Qualcomm Inc, Nvidia is also suffering from a shortage of cutting-edge chips from TSMC after the contract manufacturer was slow to ramp up its new 28 nanometer process technology.

With demand for high-end chips much higher than expected, Qualcomm has said it will work with additional suppliers but will still have shortages through most of 2012.

On Monday, Nvidia said it was buying about 500 wireless communications patents from privately held IPWireless as it locks horns with Qualcomm in the lucrative market for smartphone and tablet chips.

As well as making power-efficient chips for smartphones, Nvidia is promoting its graphics technology to be used for new purposes, including supercomputers running simulations in astrophysics and other math-heavy tasks.

While traditional central processors found in computers are designed to make huge calculations very quickly, one after another, GPUs excel at carrying out several small calculations at the same time, which makes them handy for specific kinds of tasks.

(Reporting by Noel Randewich; editing by Matthew Lewis)

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By Cameron French

TORONTO |
Tue May 15, 2012 6:10pm EDT

TORONTO (Reuters) – Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce is hoping its deal with Rogers Communications to allow customers to pay for purchases with smartphones will help it steal clients from banking rivals who must now rush to match the offering.

Canada’s No. 5 bank announced the deal on Tuesday for the so-called “mobile wallets”, which will allow the bank’s credit card customers to make retail payments by tapping their smartphones on a sensor.

The move came a day after Canada’s banking industry published a set of guidelines to support open standards for mobile wallets.

With banks clamoring to offer competing products, CIBC sees value in being the first off the mark. While the service will not be in place until later in the year, CIBC seems to be in the best position to get its mobile wallet off the ground first.

“There’s no doubt we wanted to be early on this, we wanted to be first,” David Williamson, CIBC’s head of retail and business banking, said in an interview.

“We want more clients, and there’s evidence that clients will gravitate to a bank that is innovative or leading.”

Canada’s banks are scrambling to build domestic market share as an expected housing slowdown threatens to put a squeeze on consumer lending volumes, which are the banks’ leading revenue driver.

While CIBC’s larger rivals all have significant international operations to churn out growth, CIBC is more domestically focused.

Williamson noted CIBC was the first Canadian bank to offer mobile banking back in 2010, and said customer take-up of the service has been brisk. He expects a similar rush to mobile wallets and expects customers gained will stick around even when other alternatives emerge.

“The attrition rate for clients who do online banking or mobile banking is much lower, so the loyalty level… is a lot higher,” he said.

David Beattie, an analyst at Moody’s, said offering mobile wallets first would benefit CIBC, but that maintaining the advantage will be a challenge.

“I think that being first mover on mobile wallets would be positive, but transitory, as the industry moves to this next level of payment convenience,” he said. “A sustainable advantage here is unlikely.”

Williamson said he expects to add debit cards to the service at a later date. He said credit cards were the logical starting point due to CIBC’s market-leading market share and because more retailers have credit-card terminals able to scan the phone sensors.

Bank of Montreal, Canada’s No. 4 bank, said it expects to be in the mobile wallet business within 12 to 18 months, while No. 3 lender Bank of Nova Scotia said it will be announcing its plans at the “appropriate time”.

Royal Bank of Canada and Toronto-Dominion Bank, the country’s two biggest banks, would not comment on their plans to offer their own products.

(Additional reporting by Alastair Sharp; Editing by Peter Galloway)

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By Himank Sharma

Mon May 14, 2012 1:09pm EDT

(Reuters) – Graphics chipmaker Nvidia Corp is buying about 500 wireless communications patents from privately held IPWireless, as it locks horns with Qualcomm Inc in the lucrative market for smartphone and tablet chips.

The company is acquiring the patents jointly with Intellectual Ventures — a privately held patent-holding company co-founded by former Microsoft Corp Chief Technology Officer Nathan Myhrvol.

The patents comprise those granted and pending in the wireless communications area, including Long Term Evolution (LTE), LTE-Advanced and 3G/4G technologies, the companies said in a statement.

Nvidia, traditionally known for its graphics processors for PCs, has been expanding into the market for chips used in mobile phones through acquisitions and by investing heavily in developing core processors.

“They are a new entrant into the market (for wireless networking chips), so in order to leverage their Icera acquisition they had to make sure they had the necessary IP,” ThinkEquity analyst Suji De Silva said.

Nvidia bought UK-based Icera for $367 million last year to gain a foothold in the market for baseband or radio chips — which are used to connect devices to cellular networks.

Nvidia’s Tegra suite of mobile processing chips have found favor among smartphone makers, giving strong competition to market leader Qualcomm.

Nvidia will split the ownership of the patents with Intellectual Ventures, but will license the rights to the remaining patents.

Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.

Wireless broadband network equipment provider IPWireless Inc is selling the patents after General Dynamics agreed to buy its parent company, IPW Holdings Inc, last week.

PATENT WARS

The growing importance of patents, which are increasingly becoming differentiators among mobile phone makers as they try to stifle competition, has led to a wave litigation related to intellectual property.

“There are thousands of patents of interest out there. We haven’t seen full-out litigation back and forth in the wireless patents space yet, but customers care about the strength of the patent portfolio,” De Silva added.

Google is buying phone-maker Motorola Mobility for its 17,000 patents and 7,500 patent applications, as it looks to compete with rivals such as Apple Inc.

A consortium comprising of Apple, Microsoft, Research in Motion and others paid $4.5 billion in a hotly contested auction of bankrupt Nortel’s patents last year.

Nvidia shares were down less than a percent at $13.16 in afternoon trade on Monday on the Nasdaq.

(Reporting by Himank Sharma and Supantha Mukherjee in Bangalore; Editing by Saumyadeb Chakrabarty)

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By Diane Bartz

WASHINGTON |
Mon May 14, 2012 2:37pm EDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court ruled on Monday that Apple Inc could press its bid for an immediate injunction to block the sale of some tablet computers made by Samsung Electronics Co Ltd based on allegations of infringement of one patent.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said the judge in a district court in California had erred in deciding that Apple failed to show that it was likely to succeed on the merits and sent the case back to the district count for further review.

The two companies are engaged in a legal battle that includes more than 20 patent-related cases in 10 countries as they jostle for the top spot in the smartphone and tablet markets.

The patent involved in Monday’s ruling has to do with the design of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet. The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California had found that the design patent could well be challenged as “obvious”, which means it should never have been granted. The appeals court disagreed.

The appeals court also ruled that the lower court was right to deny Apple requested preliminary injunctions which would have stopped the sale of Samsung smartphones and tablets based on three other patents.

These three patents include two that have to do with smartphone design and a third related to scrolling.

The patent ruling in Washington is part of a larger legal proceeding in California. Apple sued Samsung in the United States last year, saying the South Korean company’s Galaxy line of mobile phones and tablets “slavishly” copies the iPhone and iPad. Samsung then countersued Apple.

In mid-April, Apple and Samsung agreed that their chief executives would participate in settlement talks to try to resolve the dispute, according to an order by U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh.

Representatives for Apple and Samsung could not immediately be reached on Monday.

Apple, maker of the iPad and the iPhone, had asked in July 2011 for the immediate injunction.

One of the three judges hearing the case dissented from part of the majority decision, saying that the finding for Apple in the tablet design patent should not result in a ruling returning the issue to the lower court but that Apple should have been granted its injunction.

Judge Kathleen O’Malley noted that preliminary injunctions were designed to provide a quick fix in the case of patent infringement, while a remand delays giving that relief.

The case in U.S. District Court, Northern District of California is Apple Inc v. Samsung Electronics Co Ltd et al, 11-1846.

The case in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit is Apple, Inc v. Samsung Electronics Co Ltd et al, 2012-1105

(Reporting by Diane Bartz; Editing by Tim Dobbyn)

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