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Google Inc. was accused by Skyhook Wireless Inc. of copying its location-finding software and then strong-arming phone makers into using Google’s product.Skyhook said it filed a lawsuit in state court in Massachusetts that claims Google interfered with contracts Skyhook had reached with phone makers including Motorola Inc. In a separate complaint in federal court in Boston, Google is accused of infringing four Skyhook patents related to ways to establish the location of a smartphone.
Skyhook claims that Google then went after an unidentified "Company X" (likely Samsung) and forced it to drop XPS as well -- which would certainly explain why Samsung's Galaxy S phones have WiFi positioning turned off by default, unlike every other Android phone. Ouch.
