real-companies-innovate,-not-litigate dept
Fri, Aug 13th 2010 7:40am
Mike Masnick
Over the past few years, Sun has been one of the more outspoken companies against abusing the patent system, with former CEO Jonathan Schwartz explaining that real companies innovate, not litigate. However, Sun and its patents are now owned by Oracle, and apparently Larry Ellison feels otherwise. Oracle is now suing Google for patent infringement, using a bunch of patents that Sun owns around Java, claiming that Google s Android implementation of Java is done without a license. This is a bit surprising, really, as big Silicon Valley tech companies don t often get into patent battles with each other and, historically, when they do launch such patent attacks, it s usually a sign of something bigger being wrong with the company. Anyway, if you re interested, the patents in question are 6,125,447, 6,192,476, 5,966,702, 7,426,720, RE38,104, 6,910,205 and 6,061,520. And here s the filing:
The Tech Revolution of Mobile Gaming Explained Share
Many are not aware, but the first mobile phone was invented in 1973 by Motorola researcher Martin Cooper. It weighed 2.4lb, and you could only use it for half an hour. Thus, at that time, no one even considered the concept of implementing game technology on such a device, anytime soon.
Today, phones have advanced to a point where they shouldn’t even have the word phone in their name, as they are so much more. Nowadays, there are more than 2.4 billion mobile games in circulation, and they account for more than 51% of the worldwide gaming market. They come in all shapes and sizes, ranging from first-person-shooters to games of chance offering all types of casino bonuses.