e.Digital Corporation announced that it has filed five new patent infringement lawsuits in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California. Handal & Associates, on behalf of the Company, has recently filed five separate lawsuits against entities that e.Digital believes infringe the Company's U.S. patents covering the use of flash memory technologies. The patents in question are a part of e.Digital's Flash-R(TM) patent portfolio. The recent filings bring the number of cases currently on file against defendants alleged to infringe the Company's patents to a total of twenty-one. The filings are against Motorola Mobility LLC, Apple Inc., Research In Motion Limited, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., FutureWei Technologies, Inc., Huawei Device USA, Inc., ZTE Corp., and ZTE USA, Inc. all of whom the Company believes make or sell infringing products. Along with them e.Digital has named several of their distributors and retailers who are believed to carry and sell infringing products. These distributors and retailers include AT&T Mobility, LLC; Verizon Communications, Inc.; Sprint Nextel Corp.; T-Mobile USA, Inc.; Leap Wireless International, Inc.; Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.; Target Corporation; Kmart Corporation; Best Buy Co., Inc.; Best Buy Stores, L.P.; Best Buy.Com LLC; and TrackFone Wireless, Inc. The suits allege infringement of multiple claims across several patents covering a broad spectrum of products. Notably, the suits seek infringement damages against smartphones and tablets for features related to, among other things, flash memory integrity testing, noise suppression technology and file management functionalities.

AT&T Mobility LLC has reached a tentative agreement with the Communications Workers of America in contract negotiations covering more than 20,000 AT&T Mobility employees in 36 states and the District of Columbia. The four-year agreement covers Mobility employees in CWA Districts 1, 2/13, 4, 7, and 9 - generally in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, Mountain States and West Coast. The agreement, which is subject to ratification, covers wages, pension, disability and work rules. Health care and other benefits are bargained separately.

AT&T Inc. announced that while AT&T Mobility LLC did not reach a settlement with the Communications Workers of America by the 11:59 p.m. Mountain Time Feb. 9 expiration of the Mobility "Orange" contract, the company and union have agreed to an extension of the contract and negotiations are continuing. The contract covers more than 20,000 AT&T Mobility employees in CWA Districts 1, 2-13, 4, 7, and 9 -- AT&T Mobility's Orange unit. The contract covers wages, pension, work rules and disability. CWA members in October ratified a separate four-year benefit agreement for all CWA-bargained Mobility employees nationwide covering health care and other benefits.