BlackBerry wins Motorola patent battle

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) won its patent battle in the UK with Motorola when a court in London ruled in favour of RIM, reports The Economic Times.

The London high court says RIM didn't infringe one of Motorola's patents pertaining to e-mail. The London verdict has no bearing on the Motorola lawsuit engaged in the US. In the lawsuit, Motorola complained that RIM continues to sell products using its patents longer than agreed to.

Motorola says its agreement with RIM to use its patented technology expired in 2007, but RIM made no efforts to seek a renewal of the agreement. Motorola has since requested the US trade commission to ban import and sale of infringing products by RIM.

Sprint is continuing its support of the response and relief efforts following the earthquakes in the Republic of Haiti with a donation of critical wireless and long-distance equipment and services, states Earth Times.

The donations include mobile cell-site equipment, including portable generators, cell towers, and mobile shelters, to aid various Haitian communications carriers in providing wireless voice and data services.

“Communication between our organisation, family members of the earthquake victims, and our relief partners in Haiti has been so very essential to the success of our efforts,” says Albert Decady, chair of the Greater Washington Haitian Relief Committee.

Intrinsyc Software released its open market Radio Interface Layer (RIL) software for mobile devices utilising the Android operating system and Sierra Wireless 8XXX modems, reports Trading Markets.

Intrinsyc's RapidRIL was previously adapted to the Infineon XMM platforms and X-Gold families of mobile device baseband processors supporting GSM/GPRS, EDGE, and WCDMA/HSPA technologies. RapidRIL support will enable manufacturers to accelerate the process of designing, building, and shipping Android mobile devices into the marketplace.

"Intrinsyc is very pleased to expand RapidRIL support to Sierra Wireless modems," says David Manuel, VP and GM, Device Development Solutions. "The combination of RapidRIL and a pre-certified Sierra Wireless modem allows OEMs to develop and launch a high-quality device in record time."