I don't know about you, but when trying to do VoIP with my "smartphone", my Wi-Fi needs to be always “ON” to receive incoming calls. My phone's battery dies a quick death.

Well, the Microsoft Research folk have been working on a technology and associated patent that might result in a great fix.

Cell2Notify is an energy management architecture that leverages the cellular radio on a smartphone to implement wakeups for the high-energy consumption Wi-Fi radio. For developers, licensing the Cell2Notify patent could result in a whole new breed of "green" "smartphones"

Check out Cell2Notify here.

Plus checkout many more technologies available for licensing - it could mean the creation of your next big thing without a massive investment in new developer projects. www.microsoft.com/iplicensing