Microsoft Goes After Foxconn to Achieve Biggest Android Patent Licensee

Randy Cheung, Apr 20, 2013 3:20 AM, 441 views, Got something to say ?,

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Microsoft has insisted for years now that any company making Android phones needs to license its patents. The campaign has been so successful that the American software giant was making more money from patent licensing than from its own mobile phone system. More than 50 percent of the Android phones in the world have agreed to take licenses to its patents, including smartphone makers like LG, HTC, and Samsung. And that number is likely going to jump up today, as it announces that Foxconn, the Taiwanese company that makes 40 percent of the world’s consumer electronic devices, has agreed to join its licensing program. Foxconn will be paying Microsoft, the agreement will apply to all Android and Chrome OS devices made by Foxconn worldwide, including smartphones, tablets, and televisions …

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Asus Engineers Said Building The Nexus 7 Tablet is a Torture

Star Chang, Jun 28, 2012 7:31 PM, 3,140 views, 1 Comment »,

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Google has just unveiled a mini tablet co-branded with Taiwan’s Asus and priced to compete with Amazon’s Kindle Fire device. Google has previously worked with hardware manufacturers HTC and Samsung to produce co-branded Android smartphones under the Nexus brand. The new Nexus 7 tablet would be its first such tablet device. Google only gave the Taiwan PC maker four months to build the product. The task is to build a high-end tablet that could sell for just only US$200. Asus Chairman Jonney Shih said the internet giant can be kind of demanding, their company’s engineers felt it’s like torture …

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