Nokia and Apple are no longer suing each other over multiple cases of patent infringement. The two have entered an agreement and Apple will be paying Nokia both a lump sum amount and on-going royalties. Needless to say Nokia is happy with this arrangement. [Nokia]
First the government announced the NBN. Then they threatened to lay the smackdown on Telstra if they didn’t play ball. Well, it looks like they’ve won, yesterday announcing that they have struck a deal with the Big T to buy access to Telstra’s existing broadband infrastructure, while moving Telstra customers from the old copper network to the new NBN. More »
TiVo has just made a patent licence agreement with Gemstar-TV Guide in order for the latter to deploy TiVo service in international markets. In regular language, that means TiVo service is coming to other countries, but may be either in actual TiVo boxes or as just software in a third-party box. Either way, chances are that it has features like Amazon Unbox are very low. Hit the jump for the full release.
AU: Not sure how this effects the Aussie rollout of TiVo… I’ll try and find out today and update later.
After years of verbal barbs, thinly veiled criticisms and the occasional spout of open hostility towards eachother, Channel 7 and Foxtel today kissed and made up, signing an agreement for Foxtel to retransmit the Channel 7 signal to its cable subscribers in the major capital cities within “a matter of weeks”. Satellite subscriers aren’t as lucky, having to wait until 2009 for the launch of the new Optus D3 satellite before they can receive the free-to-air channel.
It also means that Channel 7′s EPG information will be made available to Foxtel, giving the Pay TV operator the most comprehensive EPG on the Australian market.
