Patent outfit sues smartphone makers

Patent-holding company NTP has filed an infringement suit against Apple, Google, Microsoft, HTC, LG Electronics and Motorola over email technology these firms use in the smartphones they make. NTP managed to squeeze a $612.5 million settlement out of Blackberry maker Rim in 2006 over the same patents so now it's giving Rim's rivals a taste of the same medicine. “Use of NTP's intellectual property without a licence is just plain unfair to NTP and its...