Push Email Suspended On iPhones In Germany

Posted by timothy on Friday February 24, 2012 @08:02PM from the fine-grained-patent-sniping dept.

New submitter elashish14 tips this news, snipped from Ars Technica: "Apple has been forced to disable push e-mail delivery for iCloud and MobileMe users in Germany this week. The move is thanks to a recent injunction awarded to Motorola as part of the ongoing patent dispute between the two smartphone makers.... The patent at issue relates to older pager designs, but Motorola was able to convince a German court that it applied to Apple's implementation of push e-mail that syncs across devices via iCloud. The injunction went into effect on Thursday of this week, requiring Apple to disable push e-mail syncing in Germany."

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Truce by sg_oneill · 2012-02-24 20:06 · Score: 5, Interesting

Yet another way the consumer is being raped by this senseless patent war. Call a truce you loopy money hungry bastards..

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1. Re:Truce by Pf0tzenpfritz · 2012-02-24 21:37 · Score: 5, Interesting
  
  The weirdest thing about this is, that there are no software patents in Germany.
  I guess that said software patents might qualify as "regular" patents since there are phones involved.
  
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