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Paul Sammons, Senior SAP Business Analyst and Wireless Goods Movements Project Lead for Baylor tells me this middleware application comes from Fringe Mobility and is a Microsoft .
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"It looks an awful lot like PCs in 1985, " says Scott Horn , general manager of mobility and embedded devices at Microsoft.
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On one side the logos of 60 exhibitors including Microsoft, Amazon, Nokia, HTC, Motorola Mobility, Cisco, and Asus with big booths showing off ARM-based products.
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But it is possible to go after both Google and Motorola Mobility over this Maps issue which will, assuming Microsoft is successful, do just as well at bringing Google to the negotiating table.
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On Friday, an administrative law judge at the International Trade Commission ruled that Microsoft did not violate a patent owned by Google subsidiary Motorola Mobility when it made the Xbox.
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As I wrote two weeks ago, both mobility and mapping are important for Google in its competition with Microsoft and Apple.
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This ruling is the latest in a fight between the companies over the Xbox video game console and are related to the larger patent war between Apple, Microsoft and the mobile phone makers who use Google, which includes its subsidiary Motorola Mobility.
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Yet prior analysis indicates that client software, archiving capabilities, and mobility support are some of the largest per-employee cost drivers in the Microsoft toolkit portfolio.
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Thus, in the important high-mobility category (phones and tablets), where Apple and Google are cleaning up, Microsoft is 0 for 2.
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And where is Microsoft or Nokia in the tablet business, which is closely associated with smartphone market for obvious issues of mobility and use of cloud-based computing architectures?
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