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Lodsys is on suing spree again.

Lodsys filed more patent infringiment lawsuit against six companies as reported by FOSS Patents blog. The six companies are:

  • DriveTime Automotive Group
  • ESET
  • ForeSee Results
  • LivePerson
  • OpinionLab
  • The New York Times Company

ForeSee Results and ESET previously issued challenges against Lodsys’ patent portfolio.

Lodsys has filed lawsuits against numbers of iOS and Android developers. Apple has filed motion to intervene on Lodsys Patent Lawsuit against iOS Developers. Apple and Google are licensees of Lodsys’ patent portfolio, and might be contractually barred from challenging Lodsys’ patents.

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Lodsys responds to Apple by suing iOS Developers earlier than planned.

Lodsys moves to sue iOS Developers earlier than planned as a respond to “Apple’s threat“.

From Lodsys’ blog:

Q: Why did Lodsys sue some App Developers on May 31, 2011?

Lodsys chose to move its litigation timing to an earlier date than originally planned, in response to Apple’s threat, in order to preserve its legal options.

Lodsys also sent Legal threats to Android Developers regarding in-app-purchasing patent.

Lodsys revealed that Apple, Google and Microsoft are already licensee of Lodsys’ patent portfolio. Apple, Google and Microsoft could seek to invalidate Lodsys patent.

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For some reason, this is what the iPhone 4 thinks of Lodsys:

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Lodsys also threatens Android Developers over patent. Google, it’s your move.

After gaining a lot of attention for sending lawsuit threat to numbers of iOS Developers, Lodsys is also going after Android Developers over in-app purchasing patent. Lodsys in its Q&A blog explained why its going after individual developers but not Apple, Google and Microsoft; that’s because the three companies have already licensed the four patents in question.

On May 23rd, 2011 Apple Legal sent a letter to Lodsys stating that Apple is licensed to all four patents in the Lodsys portfolio. Any iOS Applications published in iTunes App Store are essentially covered by the license.

Android Developers are hoping Google to do the same with what Apple did for its Developers.

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Anecdote and Antidote: That’s not an iPad

A client told me: “My husband bought me an iPad from Verizon. The smaller iPad.” I told her that there is no “smaller” iPad, and it turned out to be a Samsung Galaxy Tab.

Verizon Stores do sell iPad, they just don’t have them in stock. Apparently the salesperson sold the Samsung Galaxy Tab as “small” iPad. I guess the salesperson really needs to fill the sales quota.

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Android Gingerbread 2.3.4 for Nexus One.

I had the Nexus One off most of Tuesday evening. I turned it on 20 minutes ago and saw the update notification.

I was hoping for some new features for the Nexus One, unfortunately those new features are available only for Nexus S.

Speaking of which, I am using numbers of phones on AT&T network including an iPhone and Nexus One. I was thinking about getting a Nexus S and found out that there’s one that is compatible with AT&T network.

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Amazon Cloud Drive and Cloud Player, Web and Android only.

Amazon introduces Cloud Drive and Cloud Player, for Web and Android.

Features:

  • 5GB of free Cloud Drive storage.
  • Any purchases made from Amazon MP3 Store are stored for free.

Set aside the whole licensing issue that Record Labels might bring up, Amazon Cloud Drive and Cloud Player are great for consumer. Amazon can sweeten the deal by selling CD+MP3 together. If you bought the CD+MP3 bundle, you could listen the songs instantly. In addition to that, this would give consumer more incentive for pre-order and react instantly whenever CD’s are leaked on the Internet.

Now, what about other platform, Amazon?