News: Standards & Legal

• Listen up: Rock and roll artifacts under surveillance
  Ellen Messmer
  Nov 20 2009

  NEW YORK -- The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Annex keeps decades of music alive through rare videos of rock's greatest musicians playing on wall-sized screens, along with a display of prized ...

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• Qualcomm's updated 3G chipset coming to ThinkPads
  Stephen Lawson
  Nov 20 2009

  Lenovo will offer Qualcomm's latest Gobi multimode 3G (third-generation) mobile data chipset on ThinkPad laptops, allowing users to connect to the world's two major types of 3G networks and use ...

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• AT&T's Anti-Verizon Ad Is a Stinker
  Jared Newman
  Nov 20 2009

  For some reason, Luke Wilson is taking AT&T's side in the 3G coverage wars, appearing in a new ad (see video below) that retaliates against Verizon Wireless' stinging assault. The ad arrived ...

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• iPhone owners demand to see Apple source code
  Gregg Keizer
  Nov 20 2009

  iPhone owners charging Apple and AT&T with breaking antitrust laws asked a federal judge this week to force Apple to hand over the iPhone source code, court documents show.The lawsuit, which was ...

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• Judge sets schedule for Google book search case
  Juan Carlos Perez
  Nov 20 2009

  The judge in the copyright infringement case pitting the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers (AAP) against Google and its book search program has set a date for the final ...

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• Japan, South Korea may soon test TD-SCDMA networks
  Dan Nystedt
  Nov 20 2009

  China Mobile is working with partners in Japan and South Korea to set up trials of TD-SCDMA networks as part of a bid to promote use of the Chinese-developed 3G mobile technology outside China.So ...

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• China Unicom 3G growth seven times faster than China Mobile
  Owen Fletcher
  Nov 20 2009

  China Unicom's next-generation mobile service won more than 1 million users in its first month, a number that took rival China Mobile seven months to reach with its homegrown 3G standard.China ...

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• OECD throwing weight behind NBN cost-benefit analysis calls
  Trevor Clarke
  Nov 19 2009

  Intentional or not, the Organisation for Economic Development (OECD) appears to have subtly thrown its weight behind shadow communications minister, senator Nick Minchin's calls for the Federal ...

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• Android vs. iPhone: Which Has the More Advanced Users?
  JR Raphael
  Nov 19 2009

  It seems the mobile world is full of silly little battles these days. You've got the AT&T-Verizon ad assault. There's that ever-popular Droid-iPhone rivalry. And then, of course, everyone's ...

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• $2,000 tablet a perfect fit for Apple, says analyst
  Gregg Keizer
  Nov 19 2009

  Reports that Apple will produce a $2,000 tablet next year fit the company's historical pattern of going for the luxury end of the technology market, an analyst agreed today. According to reports ...

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