Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Discovery
Communications, the owner of the popular Discovery Channel, has filed a
patent infringement suit against web titan Amazon.com alleging
infringement of a patent for electronic book technology. The suit names
the Kindle and Kindle 2 e-book readers and Amazon's e-book delivery
system and seeks damages and royalty payments for continued use of the
technology.
The Kindle readers and
Amazon's e-book delivery system have been hailed as a breakthrough for
the electronic delivery and storage of books, although Amazon has not
yet expanded the system to include regions outside the US.
Currently, Amazon have a contract with Sprint that enables Kindle to
download books and other printed material via the carrier's EVDO
network.
It is not yet clear whether the suit against Amazon has implications
for the manufacturers of other e-book readers or whether Amazon has
been singled out because of its unique supply chain tie-in between
online content delivery where it makes most of its money and the Kindle devices.
According to Discovery Communications, the broadcasting and film
production company and its founder John S. Hendricks were significant
players in the development of digital content and delivery services in
the 1990's.
Hendricks' work included inventions of a secure, encrypted
system for the selection, transmission, and sale of electronic books, which have been patented.
Filed
in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware, the
Discovery suite alleges that Amazon's sale of the Kindle and Kindle 2
products and its electronic book delivery system infringe U.S. Patent
Number 7,298,851, "Electronic Book Security and Copyright Protection
System."
Joseph A. LaSala, Jr., General Counsel of Discovery Communications, said in a statement on Discovery's website:
"The
Kindle and Kindle 2 are important and popular content delivery
systems. We believe they infringe our intellectual property rights,
and that we are entitled to fair compensation. Legal action is not
something Discovery takes lightly. Our tradition as an inventive
company has produced considerable intellectual property assets for our
shareholders, and today's infringement litigation is part of our effort
to protect and defend those assets."
David Bass
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