Qualcomm new patent licensing model designed to win clients and regulators

In a significant shift in its patent licensing strategy Qualcomm’s licensing chief stated its new licensing model is aimed at winning customers and easing regulatory concerns. In a strategic change of tactics, Qualcomm Inc’s patent licensing chief stated, the company has broadened its licensing model in order to lower licensing costs for the next generation…

Top 10 Technology Trends for 2018: IEEE Computer Society Predicts the Future of Tech

The biggest trends in global tech world was predicted in a report by the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE-CS) in their annual report “Future of Tech”. “The Computer Society’s predictions, based on a deep-dive analysis by a team of leading technology experts, identify top-trending technologies that hold extensive disruptive potential for 2018,” said Jean-Luc Gaudiot, IEEE Computer…

Tech Companies Must Take Greater Responsibility Of Social Impacts Of Activities: Alphabet’s Sergey Brin

Greater responsibility needs to be taken by technology companies for the impacts their work has on the society, said Alphabet Inc President Sergey Brin on Friday. This is the first time that he has said anything about on the issue of misuse of digital services that has been raging throughout this year. These comments were…

TCMC to invest $1.3 billion into its R&D facility in Hsinchu science park

TCMC, the world’s biggest contract chipmakers plans on sinking in $1.3 billion in R&D to research future technologies. On Friday, a spokesman for the world’s largest contract chipmaker, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, stated it is planning to plough in $13.50 billion (T$400 billion) to help expand its research and development capacity for future technologies. Clarifying…

U.S. Administration efforts aimed at mitigating issues arising out of Beijing’s ‘Made in China 2025’

The U.S. Administration is increasingly boosting efforts to tilt, what has so far been so far in recent history, a one-sided affair, of collaboration and forced technology transfer from the U.S. to China. Beijing’s Made in China 2025 industrial policy has opened the administration’s eye to China’s furtive motives of leveraging the dual benefits of…

U.S. Supreme Court upholds legality of the Inter partes review process

To the chagrin of patent trolls and big pharma, in a ruling with widespread implications for high technology companies, including Apple and Samsung, U.S. Supreme Court justices in a 7-2 ruling upheld the IPR system. In a development with significant implications for tech companies, on Tuesday the U.S. Supreme Court approved of a government review…

China’s Guangzhou Automobile Group Co Ltd warns U.S.-China trade war will impacts its entry into U.S market

The Chinese automakers stated if the U.S. were to impose stiff penalties on Chinese vehicle exports, its planned entry into the U.S. market by 2019 will be significantly affected. On Wednesday, China’s Guangzhou Automobile Group Co Ltd stated the brewing trade conflict between China and the United States, especially if stiff tariffs were imposed, its…