Daniel -
One clue: the writing. This should be called MfoMoVile, not
MforMobile.
Example (and hardly an isolated one):
"It would not be unfair to say that Openwave will have an
advantage over companies looking to develop server
software around this platform, Tim Hyland, director of
product management at the company, told ComputerWire
yesterday, because it already has the IP embedded in its products."
I mean, how gushy and breathless can you get? Did they slow
down long enough to ask "Do you mean 'IP' as in 'intellectual
property', or 'internet protocol'?" It's used in both senses
in the article.
I'd write more, but I have to go leverage some value. (I think
it was something I ate.....)
Michael Turner
leap@gol.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Scuka" <daniel@japaninc.net>
To: <keitai-l@appelsiini.net>
Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 10:35 AM
Subject: (keitai-l) Who owns what in this industry
> The following was in the MforMobile email newsletter that I received today
> (http://www.mformobile.com/newsletters/newsletter213/newsletter213.html):
>
>
> "Openwave has contributed two pieces of its IP to the project. One piece
> consists of its extensions to the Wireless Markup Language, the WAP
> scripting language, which enables the creation of graphical user
> applications. The other is its download capability, which will allow
> carriers to deliver java applets, new ringtones, wallpaper and animations
to
> a handset and bill the user."
>
> I get frustrated when it is so difficult to figure out who owns what, or
> claims to own what, in this industry.
>
> What, precisely, does it mean to say that Openwave has contributed "its
> download capability, which will allow carriers to deliver java applets,
new
> ringtones, wallpaper and animations to a handset and bill the user." Is
this
> some sort of weird, Bezos-ish, "one-click shopping" patent?
>
> NTT DoCoMo is already "delivering Java applets, ringtones, wallpaper and
> animations to a handset and bill the user" in Japan on i-mode -- and
(AFIK)
> no licensing fees (to anyone) are crossing palms. So, what does Openwave
> claim to own, and is DoCoMo and AT&T Wireless going to get their rear ends
> sued when they try to launch i-mode in the US next year?
>
> --Daniel
>
>
>
>
> [ Did you check the archives? http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/ ]
>
>
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Received on Sat Jun 16 06:51:12 2001