News: Standards & Legal

• Verizon Responds to AT&T Lawsuit: 'The Truth Hurts'
  Tony Bradley
  Nov 17 2009

  Verizon mocks AT&T for whining in its response to lawsuit. Verizon's legal filing says "the truth hurts" and claims AT&T is simply trying to squash the marketing before the holidays. Tony ...

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• T-Moble's Sidekick out of the doghouse, back on sale
  Network World Staff
  Nov 17 2009

  T-Mobile, about a month after a service outage threatened to eliminate data on its customers' Sidekick smartphones, has started selling the devices again. The service outage was caused by a server ...

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• Adobe offers upgrades for Flash and AIR
  Paul Krill
  Nov 17 2009

  Adobe Systems will offer on Tuesday beta versions of upgrades to its core Flash Player and Adobe AIR technologies, with Adobe touting mobile device accommodations for the Flash Player. The two ...

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• China rules Microsoft violated intellectual property rights
  Owen Fletcher
  Nov 17 2009

  A Beijing court has ruled that Microsoft violated a Chinese company's intellectual property rights in a case over fonts used in past Windows operating systems, state media said Tuesday. The Beijing ...

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• Droid Sales and the Android Explosion
  JR Raphael
  Nov 16 2009

  The Motorola Droid is doing more than just bashing the iPhone -- it's also smashing the ceiling when it comes to mainstream Android appeal. A full 250,000 people snatched up Droids during the ...

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• Nook e-reader on sale Nov. 30 in Barnes & Noble stores
  Matt Hamblen
  Nov 16 2009

  The Nook, a $259 e-reader from Barnes & Noble Inc., will hit the booksellers' stores on Nov. 30. That's in time for holiday shoppers, but too late for "Black Friday," Nov. 27, the traditional ...

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• CTIA takes on rival spectrum users in FCC letter
  Stephen Lawson
  Nov 16 2009

  The CTIA reiterated its demands for more radio spectrum for mobile broadband in a letter sent Friday to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, laying down the gauntlet to other industries in ...

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• Skype for Business sounds the all-clear on legal pitfalls
  Tim Greene
  Nov 16 2009

  Businesses that were scared of saving money by using Skype because lawsuits might take away its essential VoIP technology may not have to worry anymore. Ownership of the company will shift from eBay ...

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• Review: Mini projector from BenQ brightens your presentations
  Barbara Krasnoff
  Nov 16 2009

  Digital projectors are getting smaller practically by the day; however, most "pocket projectors" don't have either the power or feature sets that would make them suitable for business use. The BenQ ...

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• Google, plaintiffs submit revised book search settlement
  Elizabeth Heichler
  Nov 14 2009

  Right up against a deadline to submit a revised settlement agreement to a judge overseeing a lawsuit filed against Google by the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers, the parties ...

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