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Hi-fi maker swaps patents with Microsoft

by Stephen Withers
Tuesday, 25 March 2008
! Audio maker Onkyo and Microsoft have signed a patent cross-licencing agreement. Related stories Looking afar, with Microsoft's WWT Quad-band 3G iPhone to ‘qonquer’ the world? Yellow Pages fights Google with mobile search, gives iPhone app update Panic stations! Internet addresses running out says OECD Billionaire launches Yahoo! proxy battle According to a statement issued by the two companies, the deal "covers a broad range of consumer products". Onkyo produces a range of AV equipment including receivers and speakers, and since its acquisition of Sotec in 2007 has offered a range of PCs with high-quality audio facilities. Under the agreement, a cash adjustment is flowing in Microsoft's direction. Onkyo has also joined the Windows Rally program (previously known as Windows Connect Now), which is intended to make it easier to create networkable devices that can connect to PCs. "We're very excited about this new collaboration with Microsoft," said Nobuaki Okuda, executive officer of business development at Onkyo. "We think a mix of technology, communication and entertainment enables greater technology solutions." Tags See All Tags Consumer electronics Deals Hardware Intellectual property rights Microsoft Networking Patents Stephen Withers Windows Get stories like this delivered daily - FREE - subscribe now When you subscribe get a 12 months license for LiveProject Valued at $99 USD Comments (2) Subscribe to this comment's feed ... written by more info please, March 25, 2008 Tell me more about Rally ? ... written by stephen, March 25, 2008 more info please - the top Google result for "Windows Rally" probably tells you what you need to know. The link is http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/rally/default.mspx Or there's always Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Rally Tell us what you think! better to paste your comment - this page will refresh every 15 minutes Name If the comments system keeps asking you to enter your name, tells you the message is too short, or a similar error, try removing any double quotation marks and replacing them with single quotation marks and possibly also removing any punctuation that is unnecessary, that should fix the problem - it does for us. - NEW comments system coming soon - Your Comment - smaller \| bigger Subscribe via email (Registered users only) Powered by Azrul's Jom Comment for Joomla!

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