Android: Microsoft signs a licensing agreement with General Dynamics Itronix

Fournisseur of the American Defence Department, General Dynamics Itronix signed this licensing agreement to be able to use Android in its products.

Microsoft gained a new victory in its strategy of royalties over its wallet of patents used by Android. The firm of Redmond signed a licensing agreement with General Dynamics Itronix, a manufacturer of hardened products of mobility without wire (PC, shelves, PDA) which is under contract with the American Defence Department.

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the details of the agreement were not revealed but General Dynamics Itronix will pour rights to Microsoft for its products based on Android.

In April 2010, Microsoft had obtained a similar licensing agreement with HTC. Walter Pritchard, analyst for ISIC, revealed that the Taiwanese manufacturer pours 5 dollars with Microsoft for each smartphone Android which it sells under the terms of a licensing agreement concluded in April 2010.

Horace Dediu, another analyst financial has as for him makes the accounts while evaluating to 30 million the number of Android terminals sold by HTC is 150 million dollars of incomes for Microsoft.

A few months later, of the continuations were committed against Motorola concerning the use of 9 Microsoft patents in its smartphones Android.

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