Motorola wants Xbox 360 ban

By Edwin Kee on 12/20/2010, filed in Home > Gaming

A US trage agency is currently thinking over whether the Microsoft Xbox 360 console should be slapped with a blanket ban from entering US shores after Motorola claimed that Microsoft’s hardware had infringed on its patents. The complaint filed last month by Motorola Mobility is currently undergoing investigation, and analysts speculate that this is payback for Microsoft as the big M filed a lawsuit on November 9 accusing Motorola of breaching contractual obligations to fairly license patents on wireless networking and video coding to be used in the Xbox. Normally, the entire proceeding of the investigation would take around 15 months, but more often than not, both parties would have sorted things out between them by then. We can’t wait for the outcome of such a tussle between two giants – which do you think will emerge the victor?

Microsoft: Microsoft is the company behind software like Windows, Microsoft Office and hardware like the Xbox and Kinect. The company was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. MS-DOS was the product that propelled Microsoft towards success, but it is Windows and Office that made it what it is today. Microsoft is currently engaged in a number of projects, including Windows 8, Windows Phone, Xbox, Office and the Azure cloud computing platform. the large majority of desktop computers run on Windows.

Motorola: Motorola is an American telecommunication company that has been split in two: Motorola Mobility (now a Google company) and Motorola Solutions. Motorola Mobility now focuses on handsets and set top boxes, while Motorola Solutions works on infrastructure and enterprise products. Motorola Mobility's best products are the Motorola RAZR M, RAZR HD, and RAZR Maxx HD. In Europe, Motorola has partnered with Intel to build the Motorola RAZR i.

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