AT&T may have extended its iPhone exclusivity via an iPad data deal that Apple couldn’t refuse and competitors wouldn’t match.
“AT&T had to do something dramatic to get the iPad,” says Brian Marshall, a Wall Street analyst at BroadPoint AmTech. Read more…
Apple and 17 other companies were named in a new lawsuit filed this week over two patents related to accessing computer software from remote systems.
BetaNet has targeted Apple, along with Microsoft, IBM, Adobe, Kodak and others, over alleged infringement of two patents. U.S. Patent No. 5,222,134, awarded in 1993, is entitled “Secure System for Activating Personal Computer Software at Remote Locations,” while No. 5,103,476, of 1992, has the name “Secure System for Activating Personal Computer Software at Remote Locations.”
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