Motorola’s had enough troubles last year - it’s time that they turn over a new leaf and get back to the business of making profits from mobile phone sales. Moto has just settled their outstanding patent disputes with Metrologic Instruments, giving them a clean slate to launch those 20-30 new handsets in 2008. Metrologic and Motorola have been in a patent dispute since 2002 over barcode scanning and mobile computing technologies. The feuding companies have settled on a cross-licensing deal that should give either side the legal peace of mind to concentrate on making money again. Bring on the new hotness, Moto. We can’t wait to see what you’re bringing to CES 2008! [Via: AP ] ---Related Articles at IntoMobile:Motorola: See you later, Qualcomm, we're going with Texas InstrumentsNokia: ITC starts Qualcomm investigationNokia, Sprint, and Nextel scheduled a press release for next Wednesday: What can it be about?Motorola's Smell-O-Phone - Stinky PatentNokia files Patent Exhaustion Case against Qualcomm in Europe

Paper-based boarding passes are about to be a thing of the past. But, before that can happen, airline carriers will have to make sure that all those digital boarding passes won’t muck-up their daily operations. So, following on the IATA’s approval of a global digital barcode standard , Continental Airlines has kicked off trials of the US’s first cellphone-based digital boarding passes. The barcodes will be issued to air-travellers at Houston’s Intercontinental Airport, and will be scanned at the gate to verify ID. Actually, the digital boarding passes will use something that us Yankees aren’t too familiar with - the QR code. The square jumble of black and white blocks has been used overseas to great effect, and it seems the US will start to make more use of the information-dense QR codes in the future. Continental Airlines will be running the mobile phone boarding pass trial for 3 months, during which paper boarding-passes will be issued to travelers wary of the move to an all-digital system. We’re crossing our fingers for a successful trial - hopefully the digital boarding pass system will spread to other carriers and airports. [Via: USAToday ] ---Related Articles at IntoMobile:Barcodes on mobile phones will make airline boarding-pass obsoleteVideo: Airplane take off shot on my Nokia N93iBroadcast Australia trials DVB-H mobile TVGSM Association picks Motorola to lead its Pay-Buy-Mobile initiativeAlltel to provide customers with Daily Web access option