Both comanies have settled with Microsoft giving up about $10 million in shares of the phone company's stock.
“Before the January 2003 lawsuit, Sendo had been one of Microsoft’s earliest and staunchest allies in its bid to enter the market for high-end mobile phones. The two companies developed the z100 handset, which was to have been the first smart phone running Microsoft’s Windows Mobile for Smartphones operating system, a version of Windows CE.
However, the smart-phone debut instead featured a different handset manufactured by Taiwan’s High Tech Computer Corp., and Sendo terminated its relationship with Microsoft. The startup’s lawsuit alleged that Microsoft had used its relationship with Sendo to steal trade secrets related to the manufacture of high-end handsets and had transferred the information to other manufacturing partners such as HTC. The Taiwanese company, which has manufactured handheld computers for the likes of Hewlett-Packard Co., had no previous history in the phone business. “
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