Bizarre Patent Suit Filed Against Apple Regarding iPhone’s Safari

Ian Paul, reporting for PC World:

That patent is for an invention that displays “on-line content reformatted from a webpage in a hypertext markup language (HTML) format into an extensible markup language (XML) format to generate a sister site.” This sister site is a simplified version of the original site that is then displayed on any number of devices—including cell phones, EMG says.

Now, it seems to me that this is a description of what every single mobile phone on the market does. Every mobile phone EXCEPT the iPhone, that is.

★ Wednesday, 26 November 2008