Motorola has won a permanent injunction in Germany against push email services in Apple’s iCloud and MobileMe. When Motorola enforces the judgement, Apple will have to remove push email from the iPhone and iPad in Germany.
Although the injunction is permanent, it can be appealed and it’s likely that Apple will do just that. According to patent expert Florian Mueller ‘Motorola can seek its enforcement anytime now if it posts a 100 million euro bond, but if an appeals court overturns the ruling, Motorola will be liable for premature enforcement of an improperly-granted injunction.’
In a separate development, Apple has won a temporary suspension of the enforcement of another Motorola injunction which initially caused it to make the iPhone 3GS and 4, and the iPad 3G unavailable on its German online store last night.
Browett won’t bring Dixons to Apple says Tim Cook
by Kenny Hemphill on February 1, 2012 in CommentApple’s decision to recruit Dixons CEO, John Browett as its international retail chief caused more than a few raised eyebrows on this side of the Atlantic. The philosophy and sales strategy of PC World and Currys could scarcely be more different to Apple’s, and anyone who remembers the failed ‘store within in a store’ partnership [...]