Sweden's Ericsson said Samsung failed to renew an expired licence agreement after two years of negotiations.
And Sweden's Ericsson, the world's leading supplier of mobile-phone infrastructure, reported horrid third-quarter results at the end of October.
Finland's Nokia , Sweden's Ericsson and America's Motorola announced an alliance to develop a single standard for e-commerce on mobile phones.
On January 26th, Sweden's Ericsson said it will contract out the manufacturing of nearly all its handsets to a Singapore-based firm, Flextronics, to help contain its costs.
Germany's Siemens, Sweden's Ericsson and South Korea's Samsung trailed behind.
Some of its rivals, such as Sweden's Ericsson, have already transferred all their mobile-telephone production to subcontractors rather than trying to keep up with the research and development spending and technical infrastructure needed to continue to make them on their own.
"The dispute concerns both Ericsson's patented technology that is essential to several telecommunications and networking standards used by Samsung's products as well as other of Ericsson's patented inventions that are frequently implemented in wireless and consumer electronics products, " Ericsson said in a statement.
Sony Ericsson's loss in the fourth quarter 2011 will impact Ericsson's operating income with SEK -1.1 b. in the quarter.
ENGADGET: Sony Ericsson swallows $317 million pre-tax loss as end draws near
"Technological progress will only work if it helps consumers, " said Norbert Niebert, head of Ericsson's German unit Ericsson Eurolab Deutschland.
As well as balancing short-and long-term objectives in this way, Mr Ros's understanding of Ericsson's overall strategy has enabled him to expand far beyond corporate finance.
As we said, there's plenty more juicy tidbits to digest over at Esato -- but even with what we've presented here, it's safe to say Sony Ericsson's shaping up for a killer '07.
On October 27, 2011, it was announced that Sony will acquire Ericsson's 50% share of Sony Ericsson.
ENGADGET: Sony Ericsson swallows $317 million pre-tax loss as end draws near
That use survives today in phrases like Columbus's (all right, Leif Ericsson's, if you must) discovery of America.
Initially the system will allow file-sharing with Sony's PSP games console, Nokia's N-series mobile, Sony Ericsson's Walkman and Cybershot handsets and Microsoft's Windows Mobile smartphones.
We also tried Opera on Sony Ericsson's P900 smartphone and got the same thing.
"We're trying to learn from i-mode, " says Tord Wingren, director of Ericsson's 3G phones unit.
Less than two weeks later, Sony announced that it was purchasing Ericsson's share in the company.
Ericsson's lawsuit was filed in a court in Texas where its American operations are headquartered.
Christy says that he doesn't think that LM Ericsson's current valuation fully values the long-term opportunity.
Ericsson's changed fortunes from both the reviving tech market and its cost-cutting strategy present a contrast with 2002.
That has allowed them to delay network upgrades which would otherwise have boosted Ericsson's and other telecoms-equipment firms' earnings.
So this study seems to provide some neurological evidence for Dr Ericsson's idea that long-term working-memory function underpins prodigy-level performance.
Sony Ericsson's newest models include the Xperia X10 and Vivaz smartphones and the Xperia X10 mini and Xperia X10 mini pro.
He said he expects Android to remain the dominant smartphone platform in Sony Ericsson's lineup for at least the next two years.
Though actual performance gave us little cause for concern, Sony Ericsson's custom camera software is more of a hit and miss affair.
ST-Ericsson's CEO will leave in March, as the parent companies of the cellphone chipmaker work on selling or shutting down the struggling joint venture.
"This was Ericsson's first attempt to be 'cool, '" says Larsson, dismissively.
An executive at Ericsson's India unit didn't offer an immediate comment.
Disclosing detailed information on specific product lines, or revealing the strategy behind Ericsson's pricing, would indeed make it easier for investors to value the company.
At Ericsson's sprawling campus in Kista, a technology park near Stockholm, Jan Lindgren, vice president for mobile Internet solutions, is guarded when talking about the competition.
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