商務(wù)英語考試熱點(diǎn)聚焦:微軟蘋果等被指責(zé)圍剿Android
LOS ANGELES - Google Inc, fresh from losing a bid to buy thousands of patents from bankrupt Nortel, lashed out at itsbiggest rivals on Wednesday and accused them of banding together to block the Internet giant in the red-hot (smartphone)
arena.
路透洛杉磯 谷歌近期競拍北電網(wǎng)絡(luò)專利失敗,周三抨擊其競爭對手相互勾結(jié),阻撓谷歌在智能手機(jī)領(lǐng)域發(fā)展。
Google Chief Legal Officer David Drummond blasted Microsoft, Apple, Oracle and “other companies” for colluding to hamper the increasingly popular Android mobile software by buying up patents, effectively imposing a “tax” on Android cellphones.
谷歌首席法務(wù)官德拉蒙德(David Drummond)稱微軟、蘋果、和甲骨文等公司相互勾結(jié),通過買斷相關(guān)專利,相當(dāng)于對采用Android系統(tǒng)的手機(jī)“征稅”,試圖阻撓Android手機(jī)軟件的發(fā)展。
Apart from increasing costs for consumers, snapping up the patents will stifle technological innovation, he said.
他指出,這種搶購專利的作法,不僅會增加消費(fèi)者的支出,還會扼殺科技創(chuàng)新。
“Microsoft and Apple have always been at each other‘s throats, so when they get into bed together you have to start wondering what’s going on,” Drummond wrote in a blog post.
德拉蒙德在博客中寫道:“微軟和蘋果向來是死對頭,所以當(dāng)它們混到一起的時(shí)候,你就不得不疑惑究竟發(fā)生了什麼?!?BR> He referred to “a hostile, organized campaign against Android by Microsoft, Oracle, Apple and other companies, waged through
bogus patents.”
他認(rèn)為,這是微軟、甲骨文、蘋果以及其他公司通過假專利,對Android發(fā)動的惡意的有組織行動。
Apple, Microsoft and Oracle declined to comment.
對此,蘋果、微軟、甲骨文的發(fā)言人拒絕予以評論。
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專利缺失:谷歌Android之痛
在市場人士看來,甲骨文對谷歌Android和微軟及蘋果對使用Android的訴訟均凸顯了軟肋:專利數(shù)量的明顯缺失。一項(xiàng)統(tǒng)計(jì)顯示,2010年全美50家公司中,微軟有3094個(gè)新專利,蘋果有563個(gè),而谷歌則在榜單之外。事實(shí)上,谷歌不是不注重專利,但在此前數(shù)次的專利競購中,均敗于競爭對手。據(jù)悉,谷歌曾在北電專利破產(chǎn)拍賣中欲收購相關(guān)專利,然而,這些專利最終被包括蘋果、微軟、RIM、索尼、EMC和愛立信的
財(cái)團(tuán)以45億美元的價(jià)格獲得。
LOS ANGELES - Google Inc, fresh from losing a bid to buy thousands of patents from bankrupt Nortel, lashed out at itsbiggest rivals on Wednesday and accused them of banding together to block the Internet giant in the red-hot (smartphone)
arena.
路透洛杉磯 谷歌近期競拍北電網(wǎng)絡(luò)專利失敗,周三抨擊其競爭對手相互勾結(jié),阻撓谷歌在智能手機(jī)領(lǐng)域發(fā)展。
Google Chief Legal Officer David Drummond blasted Microsoft, Apple, Oracle and “other companies” for colluding to hamper the increasingly popular Android mobile software by buying up patents, effectively imposing a “tax” on Android cellphones.
谷歌首席法務(wù)官德拉蒙德(David Drummond)稱微軟、蘋果、和甲骨文等公司相互勾結(jié),通過買斷相關(guān)專利,相當(dāng)于對采用Android系統(tǒng)的手機(jī)“征稅”,試圖阻撓Android手機(jī)軟件的發(fā)展。
Apart from increasing costs for consumers, snapping up the patents will stifle technological innovation, he said.
他指出,這種搶購專利的作法,不僅會增加消費(fèi)者的支出,還會扼殺科技創(chuàng)新。
“Microsoft and Apple have always been at each other‘s throats, so when they get into bed together you have to start wondering what’s going on,” Drummond wrote in a blog post.
德拉蒙德在博客中寫道:“微軟和蘋果向來是死對頭,所以當(dāng)它們混到一起的時(shí)候,你就不得不疑惑究竟發(fā)生了什麼?!?BR> He referred to “a hostile, organized campaign against Android by Microsoft, Oracle, Apple and other companies, waged through
bogus patents.”
他認(rèn)為,這是微軟、甲骨文、蘋果以及其他公司通過假專利,對Android發(fā)動的惡意的有組織行動。
Apple, Microsoft and Oracle declined to comment.
對此,蘋果、微軟、甲骨文的發(fā)言人拒絕予以評論。
相關(guān)閱讀:
專利缺失:谷歌Android之痛
在市場人士看來,甲骨文對谷歌Android和微軟及蘋果對使用Android的訴訟均凸顯了軟肋:專利數(shù)量的明顯缺失。一項(xiàng)統(tǒng)計(jì)顯示,2010年全美50家公司中,微軟有3094個(gè)新專利,蘋果有563個(gè),而谷歌則在榜單之外。事實(shí)上,谷歌不是不注重專利,但在此前數(shù)次的專利競購中,均敗于競爭對手。據(jù)悉,谷歌曾在北電專利破產(chǎn)拍賣中欲收購相關(guān)專利,然而,這些專利最終被包括蘋果、微軟、RIM、索尼、EMC和愛立信的
財(cái)團(tuán)以45億美元的價(jià)格獲得。