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Sendo Accuses MS of Stealing Smartphone IP

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the pump-and-dump dept.

Nate B. writes "According this article in The Inquirer, it seems that Sendo, a UK based development house, has filed suit in Texas as of December 23 to recoup monetary damages for IP it claims Microsoft stole. From the article, 'The company's grievance is that after years of working closely with Microsoft on the development of Windows Smartphone 2002, the fruits of their endeavours were handed straight over to HTC, which manufactures the SPV handset for Orange.' The story also includes this cute footnote, 'When Sendo announced it was to receive funding from Microsoft, I and some other British journalists asked Sendo's Hugh Brogan at the press briefing, in the London Waldorf, whether he wasn't afraid that the company might just take its information and then dump his firm. He claimed then there was no possibility of that.'" Seems there was more to this story than originally thought.

12 of 231 comments (clear)

  1. FRIST POST! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    FRIST is the new republican leader! ALL HAIL FRIST!

    1. Re:FRIST POST! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      I hope Frist anally rapes Hilary Clinton...that ugly little power hungry bitch needs a good ass banging

  2. Don't worry by Easy2RememberNick · · Score: 1, Troll

    Well if the SmartPhone works as well as my Toshiba e740 PocketPC (crash crash crash) Sendo has nothing to worry about.

  3. My Grandfather died at Auschwitz by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ..seems he got really drunk and fell out of his guard tower

  4. They "innovated" it by grasshoppers · · Score: -1, Troll

    Microsoft doesn't steal, they innovate, duh! PS - word to my dead troll homiez

  5. You know... by craenor · · Score: -1, Troll

    You'd think that if your company was worth hundreds of billions of dollars, you could at least take time out of your busy "screwing over the consumer schedule" to pay the people you work with.

    Which Linux version should I install now to escape the hell that is M$?

  6. Microsoft's business plan by pulse2600 · · Score: 0, Troll

    1) Steal someone else's idea
    2) Integrate it into their own product
    3) Make sure it breaks all the time
    4) ??????
    5) PROFIT!!!!!

    1. Re:Microsoft's business plan by oliverthered · · Score: 2, Troll

      4="Advertise, brand , steel, cheat, lie, lobby, tie your customers in"

      It works for most companies/governments/countries, and not just the 'evil' ones.

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      thank God the internet isn't a human right.
  7. Re:and in other news by WildBeast · · Score: 1, Troll

    Just because everyone is suing them because they're jealous of there success doesn't mean that we have to stop buying there products. All this money going to lawyers is sure a waste though.

  8. Best Quote by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Now it appears the company has decided to go to court to recoup some of the money - which one source claimed was at least $40 million - spent working on Stinger (the code name for Smartphone)

    They can have stinger for free here (look at the alt text)

    Its funny in a -1, troll sort of way

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    s/coward/coword

  9. List of past cases? by leandrod · · Score: 1, Troll

    Does anyone have a list of past cases of MS screwing people and getting away with that?

    Just for starters:

    Apple: Rip-off
    BeOS: Exclusive OEMs
    IBM: OS/2
    NeXT: Cairo hype
    Orange: Smartphone cannon fodder
    Sendo: Rip-off
    Spyglass: Mosaic & MS IE
    Sun: Java & C#
    Sybase: SQL Server

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    Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete DUTRA
    DA, DBA, SysAdmin, Data Modeller
    GNU Project, Debian GNU/Lin
  10. Re:Why do the English have disgusting teeth? by Gordonjcp · · Score: 0, Troll

    For the same reason as Americans are disgustingly fat. Great big obese whales, that stink because they're too fat to wash properly. I suppose you could tie one to the bed of one of the pickups they drive around in, and go through a carwash.

    Anyway, I thought all Americans had bad teeth and too close together eyes. Maybe that's just one part of America.