Broadcom claims Qualcomm has double-dipped on its patents by charging a fee for the use of its technology and another fee for its use in combination with another product. It's a practice that is referred to as patent exhaustion. The lawsuit "further asserts that these practices constitute patent misuse that has brought Qualcomm a financial windfall and brought harm to the industry and consumers," Broadcom said in a statement. In addition to licensing its technology, Qualcomm also makes chips for phones using the same IP.

Nokia has announced a solid release date for Comes With Music, as well as the first compatible handsets. The unlimited music download service is set to arrive on a small handful of models, both old and new, in the UK starting October 16, with the US and other countries slated for sometime in early 2009.

...India, with nearly 300 million mobile users, is the second-largest wireless market in the world after China, and has the potential for further huge growth as just over a quarter of its population have cellphones now. Operators are signing up 8-9 million users every month, and Gartner, a consultancy, expects 737 million connections by 2012.

Still, for all of Jha's experience, he faces one huge challenge: Motorola's corporate culture. For the cell-phone unit to recover, Jha will have to fully cleanse Motorola of its sluggish, bureaucratic ways and teach a company that has long let engineers drive product development to think more like marketers, in tune with consumer tastes. It's a challenge that has proved insurmountable for several top Motorola executives.

After the cell phone giant reported a profit and better-than-expected cell phone shipments in the second quarter, its stock climbed 12.5% to close at $8.64. Speculation that Motorola would keep the cell phone business and spin off other units started earlier this week, when Motorola announced it will reorganize its home and networks mobility unit into three divisions.