InterDigital Inc (IDCC)

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Maybe, i missed this prediction being posted.

IFNNY win for sure (good for IDCC), but the Netbook is not a "phone", how does "fixed fee royalty bearing" work here? Maybe we will finally find out?

SmarTrend News Watch - 6/8/2009

Apple to Ship Netbook by Year End

By Chip Brian, SmarTrend Analytics Team

Daiwa Securities analyst Calvin Huang issued a note where he predicted that Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) will launch a so called "netbook" later this year. The netbook will be a 10" laptop with a touch screen and use parts from a number of Taiwan-based firms in addition to components from Infineon (NASDAQ:IFNNY). The announcement could come at the WWDC conference in San Francisco which kicks off today in San Francisco. Investors are expecting the Cupertino-based firm to launch new versions of its popular iPhone but the introduction of a netbook could be a major catalyst as the company has been criticized for not offering a lower-cost version of its Macbook to compete with the likes of Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) and Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) for market share in the low- to mid-range end of the consumer electronics space.


http://www.mysmartrend.com/briefs.asp?nwdate=20090608&story=4



On September 6, 2007, Interdigital, Inc. (IDCC) and its subsidiaries (including InterDigital Communications LLC) signed a worldwide, non-transferable, non-exclusive, fixed-fee royalty-bearing patent license agreement with Apple Inc. Under the seven-year license agreement, InterDigital granted a license to Apple under InterDigital's patent portfolio covering "the current iPhone and certain future mobile phones, if any."