Our friends at BlackBerry Cool have posted some information on a escalating war of lawyers between Motorola and RIM.
Motorola sued RIM, claiming that RIM is using 7 Motorola patents without permission. RIM sued right back with 9 claims of patent infringement, and accused Motorola of refusing to license some of their patents in a “fair and reasonable” manner.
Neither company appears to be winning so far, so we’ll just have to wait and see where this one goes.
Our friends at BlackBerry Cool noted that Palm has modified their home page and saturated newspaper everywhere with a new ad campaign that make fun of RIM for the recent outages on the BlackBerry network.
The new ads say:
Palm smartphones include voice, email, text, web, calendar and contacts.And more importantly, uptime.
Connect to your Microsoft Exchange Server.
No third-party servers and no nationwide blackouts.
Considering their customer satisfaction levels, amongst other things, I’m not sure they’re in a position to take cheap shops.
Our friends over at BlackBerry Cool posted about RIM publishing a new patent for a touchscreen LTD.
The patent is called System and Method for Integrating A Touchscreen Within an LCD. It works by detecting displacement within the liquid crystal display and routing that data to software within the device. The patent was published 4 months after it was filed, in contrast to the usual 18 month gap, which could indicate that the technology will be used sooner rather than later.
This is definitely something to keep an eye on.
Our friends at BlackBerry Cool have posted a rumor that RIM has begun work on OS 5.0 for their BlackBerrys, and we might see the fruits of their labor before the year ends.
The news comes from Jibi, a writer with a good track-record for BlackBerry rumors and news. There’s no word on the feature set of 5.0, but given how long it’s been since OS 4.0 was released we can hope for some big jumps.