Apple is digging in for its legal battle against Qualcomm. On Tuesday, the Cupertino, California, tech giant filed an update to its complaint against Qualcomm, alleging that the chipmaker stifles innovation. Rather than focus only on itself, Apple is arguing that Qualcomm’s impact is much broader. “Qualcomm’s illegal business practices are harming Apple and the …
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Windows 10 laptops running Qualcomm chips just gained stronger manufacturer support. Today at the Computex show in Taipei, computer makers Lenovo, HP and Asus officially expressed plans to build Windows devices powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 mobile processor. The idea of a Windows 10 machine running a Snapdragon chip isn’t new. Qualcomm confirmed that the Snapdragon 835 could handle …
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Now playing: Watch this: The Essential Phone is almost all screen 1:57 Remember Andy Rubin, the creator of Android? Since leaving Google, he’s been busy creating a new company, Essential. It’s making an entirely new phone called the Essential Phone — its model name is PH-1. The Essential Phone has some slick features like being made out of titanium and …
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These chips ain’t cheap. Qualcomm filed a lawsuit Wednesday against Apple’s iPhone manufacturers that alleges breach of contract. The suit, filed in US District Court in California, comes less than a month after Apple stopped paying patent royalties for Qualcomm technology that’s essential for connecting phones to a wireless network. Apple doesn’t have a direct license with Qualcomm but pays …
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And so continues the battle over Qualcomm’s licensing practices. The US Federal Trade Commission on Friday defended its antitrust lawsuit from January, saying in a legal filing with the US District Court in San Jose, California, that the court shouldn’t dismiss its complaint against Qualcomm. The group has accused Qualcomm, the world’s biggest mobile chipmaker, of forcing Apple into an …
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Sprint is getting into 5G too. The wireless carriers can’t stop talking about the next generation of wireless technology, which promises to be faster, more responsive and able to handle connected devices without breaking a sweat. T-Mobile has committed to building out a nationwide 5G network before anyone else, and Verizon and AT&T are planning to roll out trials of …
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The gap between midrange and premium phones is about to get smaller. That is, if those midrange phones come packing Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 630 and 660 chips. Announced Tuesday local time at a company event in Singapore, the two new system-on-chip (SoC) are the successors to the Snapdragon 625 and 652 processors, which are used in devices such as the …
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Now playing: Watch this: iPhone legal battle may take new, dramatic turn 1:02 Qualcomm could be planning to escalate its legal spat with Apple. The chipmaker may ask the US International Trade Commission (ITC) to ban Apple from importing iPhones into the US, Bloomberg reported Wednesday, citing a person familiar with Qualcomm’s strategy. The possibility comes amid a legal dispute …
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Now playing: Watch this: Samsung Galaxy S8: The good, the bad, the beautiful 4:41 Once again, Samsung and LG’s rival phones come face to face. And once again, we’re here to help you figure out which is best for you. Both the Galaxy S8 and G6 are excellent high-end phones with slim bezels, waterproofing and the latest Android 7.0 software. …
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The buck apparently stops with Apple. The iPhone maker has stopped paying royalties to contract manufacturers for phone patents owned by Qualcomm, starting with devices sold during the March quarter. Those manufacturers, like Foxconn, then pay Qualcomm for the intellectual property that’s essential for connecting phones to a wireless network. The move, the latest in a heated licensing battle between …
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