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Nokia’s sale of the century hour continues, selling off a small intellectual property portfolio to Vringo. The little-known app maker has snapped up a bundle of 500 patents and applications from the Finnish phone maker, including 109 issued US Patents. The collection mostly concerns backbone tech, including communication management, signal transmission and cellular infrastructure. Neither company mentioned a figure, but Vringo revealed that Nokia’s getting a chunk of any future profits made. There’s PR after the break if you’re curious enough to wonder if Stephen Elop’s planning the mobile phone equivalent of a yard sale.

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Vringo buys small Nokia patent portfolio as asset sell-off continues originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 09 Aug 2012 09:44:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It’s taken just over a month for Nokia to get everything in place, but its now announced that around 50 “world-class imaging specialists” have joined Espoo’s already substantial mobile imaging department, alongside a stack of Scalado’s technologies and intellectual property. The imaging specialist’s co-founder, Sami Niemi, who will now head up the Capture and Relive section of Smart Devices at Nokia, said: “The technologies and competences we’ve developed should help move from taking photos to capturing memories and emotions.” (We’re sure those hulking PureView sensors will help too.) Take a look at Nokia’s brief statement on its future in mobile imaging after the break.

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Nokia completes acquisiton of Scalado’s imaging tech and developers originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 24 Jul 2012 03:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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And so, the Facebook v. Yahoo! courtroom tussle has come to an end. The two Silicon Valley giants have agreed to a legal truce and cross-licensed a bit of each other’s IP, meaning that’s one less legal donnybrook we have to worry about upsetting consumer sensibilities. Not only have the two settled their differences over their respective advertising and social networking patents, but they’ve also agreed to an ad sales partnership, too. Now, if only all those other, myriad tech litigants could amicably settle their differences with such alacrity. Perhaps they should all take a gander at the PR after the break to see how it’s done.

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Facebook and Yahoo! friends again, agree to patent cross-license originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 06 Jul 2012 16:20:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Happy Independence Day, Apple. Reuters reports that Samsung’s request to have the preliminary injunction against the Galaxy Nexus lifted has officially been denied. This follows a similar ruling yesterday, when the Korean firm’s plea to have a similar ban on its Galaxy Tab 10.1 also fell on deaf ears. This means that there will be no more Samsung Nexi on store shelves until either a workaround can be implemented or the case is resolved. And, according to All Things D, Google and Sammy have already got a workaround ready to go and the software patch implementing it will be pushed out “imminently.” So, in actuality, the news isn’t that bad for Android lovers, but it does put another feather in Apple’s legal cap.

Update: In case you weren’t sure what “no more Nexi on store shelves” means, the phone is currently listed as coming soon in Google’s own Play store, pending that software update that hopefully clears it for sale in the US.

Samsung denied: Judge Koh declines to lift injunction against Galaxy Nexus, but Google’s got a workaround originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 03 Jul 2012 20:26:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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