{"id":6284,"date":"2011-07-06T12:59:50","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T19:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.wordpress.com\/?p=6284"},"modified":"2011-07-06T12:59:50","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T19:59:50","slug":"microsoft-demands-royalties-from-samsung-over-android-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2011\/07\/06\/microsoft-demands-royalties-from-samsung-over-android-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft demands royalties from Samsung over Android phones."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is sure to make profit on mobile phone business, not from Windows Phone 7 but from Android phones. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/07\/06\/us-samsung-microsoft-idUSTRE7651DB20110706\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters reported<\/a> that Microsoft wants Samsung to pay smartphone license, specifically for the Android phones.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Microsoft Corp has demanded that Samsung Electronics Co Ltd pay $15 for each smartphone handset it makes based on Google Inc&#8217;s Android operating system as the software giant has a wide range of patents used in the mobile platform, local media reported on Wednesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Microsoft has been asserting that Android operating system is violating Microsoft&#8217;s patents. Previously <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/gadgetlab\/2010\/04\/microsoft-htc-android-patent\/\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft went after HTC<\/a> to sign patent deal over Android phones. <a href=\"http:\/\/tech.fortune.cnn.com\/2010\/10\/01\/microsoft-files-itc-patent-complaint-against-motorolaandroid\/\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft also sued Motorola<\/a> over Android phones.<\/p>\n<p>Recently Microsoft also claims that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electronista.com\/articles\/11\/07\/05\/ms.makes.wistron.sign.deal.for.android.chrome.os\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google&#8217;s Chrome OS is violating its patents<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time Microsoft going after Open Source Software. Microsoft was asserting patent ownership on Linux operating system and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.novell.com\/linux\/microsoft\/faq.html\" target=\"_blank\">signed a deal with Novell<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>editor&#8217;s note post now, fix later &#8211; busy.<br \/>\n37&#8242;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is sure to make profit on mobile phone business, not from Windows Phone 7 but from Android phones. Reuters reported that Microsoft wants Samsung to pay smartphone license, specifically for the Android phones. Microsoft Corp has demanded that Samsung Electronics Co Ltd pay $15 for each smartphone handset it makes based on Google Inc&#8217;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2011\/07\/06\/microsoft-demands-royalties-from-samsung-over-android-phones\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Microsoft demands royalties from Samsung over Android phones.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[946,4],"tags":[327,673,1296,2009,934,2601,936],"class_list":["post-6284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-news","tag-android","tag-chrome","tag-google","tag-media","tag-microsoft","tag-samsung","tag-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcNtU-1Dm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}