Apple, RIM, others win Nortel patents at auction

Exactly.  While following that they listed a smaller number of $340 million.  Are we suppose to be tricked by the “o” and think RIM won patents with only $77 million while it clearly states Google started the bidding with $900 million AND was a loser.  Some people are real idiots. 

Another thing I’d like to point out. The consortium is 6 companies yet in
the title they only mention two. RIM being one of the two. RIM is only in
for 1/6th of the 4.5 billion yet they get mentioned? They talk about google
an the 900 million because that is the only info about the patents (opening
bids) that anyone really knew of. Seriously. U Have seen too many conspiracy
movies. True story™©®

Agreed.  You know when a company is in trouble when it’s supporters are paranoid about an “o” instead of an “0″.  That’s just as petty as RIM responding to that letter yesterday.

I’m just pointing out that the corporate culture at BGR, they are just extremely biased against RIM. If you don’t agree with that then you must agree that they at the very least simply don’t like them. But I’ve noticed that among the writers at BGR, they probably get a kick at screwing with any sort of RIM “news” that they hear. So i stand by my earlier statement saying that this was intentional and probably the writer got a laugh at screwing with some more RIM news.

lol. Buddy EVERYONE knows it’s open season on RIM my only point/question is
why would they try to subliminally trick us when they have been OPENLY flat
out trashing RIM? true story™©®

I don’t care whether they like them or not.  I only come for the tech news and not any biased opinions towards anything.  There’s nothing said on this site that makes be want to buy/not buy or like/dislike anything.  So I don’t take it that serious.  Did you miss the article a couple weeks ago with Geller written out a long post about how RIM was his first love and the reason this site was started?  I believe that was true.  But I also believe a lot of people are jaded towards RIM as well.  But I’m certainly not going to get upset over every little thing.  Dude, what others say or mistype isn’t that serious. 

You should be complaining to RIM for being so stagnant for it to get to this point where they are the butt of all jokes.  That’s RIM fault. It’s not BGR’s fault that RIM hasn’t done anything exciting in a long time.  BGR didn’t create the Storm or Torch.  He wasn’t working on a tablet when he should have been worknig on phones.  He didn’t release the playbook without the one thing everyone knows blackberry for….EMAIL.  He didn’t ignore iOS and Android for years.  He isn’t planning on releasing a “buy us some more time OS update” i.e. OS 7 aka OS 6.1 and then follow up with QNX not too long after. RIM did this to itself.  The best way to counter this is to actually release products on time and answer the critic with your products not with auto-email responses touting your declining quarterly numbers.  RIM did this.  Not BGR.  And don’t get me wrong, I don’t agree with everything BGR says but I blame RIM for the negative press.  People are just writing about it.  And the people that don’t write about it aren’t doing so because it’s not relevant enough for them. 

I don’t care whether they like them or not.  I only come for the tech news and not any biased opinions towards anything.  There’s nothing said on this site that makes be want to buy/not buy or like/dislike anything.  So I don’t take it that serious.  Did you miss the article a couple weeks ago with Geller written out a long post about how RIM was his first love and the reason this site was started?  I believe that was true.  But I also believe a lot of people are jaded towards RIM as well.  But I’m certainly not going to get upset over every little thing.  Dude, what others say or mistype isn’t that serious. 

You should be complaining to RIM for being so stagnant for it to get to this point where they are the butt of all jokes.  That’s RIM fault. It’s not BGR’s fault that RIM hasn’t done anything exciting in a long time.  BGR didn’t create the Storm or Torch.  He wasn’t working on a tablet when he should have been worknig on phones.  He didn’t release the playbook without the one thing everyone knows blackberry for….EMAIL.  He didn’t ignore iOS and Android for years.  He isn’t planning on releasing a “buy us some more time OS update” i.e. OS 7 aka OS 6.1 and then follow up with QNX not too long after. RIM did this to itself.  The best way to counter this is to actually release products on time and answer the critic with your products not with auto-email responses touting your declining quarterly numbers.  RIM did this.  Not BGR.  And don’t get me wrong, I don’t agree with everything BGR says but I blame RIM for the negative press.  People are just writing about it.  And the people that don’t write about it aren’t doing so because it’s not relevant enough for them. 

notice how apple’s name come’s first in this story. and to top it off, the story is a day late. great reporting BGR

Lol. Nothing is good enough for u. First u said they would never post this
story now it’s a day late with apples name first. Haha. Apple will rule the
world. Sooner u accept it. The sooner u will be happy and peaceful.  true
story™©®

No, they will be used for protection (hence, the Kodak lawsuit that RIM and Apple are just now getting over and the pending Dolby lawsuit against RIM).

Yeah but the many of those patents won’t be used by the company that owns them now.  They just like to own the rights so they can sue if someone else uses it.  I personally think if a company has a patent on something and is not actually using it or in the process of utilizing it they should have to give it up so another company will actually make some good use out of it.

Pretty much, Google is running crazy in the market right now gobbling up too much space. MS wants to slow Android down, Apple told these guys that they are a working their High end Market and they are happy there and RIM is just trying to stay above water and slowing Android down is needed. So what better way then to screw Google. Google is in a real bind now. MS is going to tear them a new whole. Patent law needs to be updated because this is getting ridiculous. 

Fully agree.  You’d think Google would drop some major cash with the way they are being sued.  You give the rights to some major patents to companies like RIM, MS and Apple and you have none, that’s going to be some trouble down the line.  Of course all it will lead to is settlements but nonetheless that’s cash out of their pocket.  I am a little stunned they weren’t more active.

They got together to cover their respective butts and to keep the portfolio away from Google.
Plain and simple good business tactics and war tactics “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”.

U understand that 900m is an initial bid. This was an auction. Highest bidder wins. However google probably looked at the 6 companies, and with Microsoft and apple each alone having more money than google, decided not to bid higher than 4.5 billion. True story™©®

The purpose of Android was and still is to make sure Google’s services, including it’s search, are as ubiquitous on mobile devices as they are on PCs.

The app model (using native apps instead of the web) could end up circumventing Google’s search-based ad revenue, so Google needed to stem the tide of iOS. They succeeded so far, so now they can turn their attention to making money off the infrastructure (read: you and your phone) they just created.

Scroaty, that will be the day the world ends!  The Goofan (aka Apple Hater) Nation will make sure of that!!!!!