News: Standards & Legal

• IPhone cleared for sale by South Korean regulator
  Owen Fletcher
  Nov 18 2009

  South Korean regulators gave Apple a business license on Wednesday that would allow it to launch the iPhone in the country at any time. The license allows Apple to operate location-based services in ...

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• Feds plan 25,000 on-site H-1B inspections
  Patrick Thibodeau
  Nov 17 2009

  U.S. immigration officials are taking H-1B enforcement from the desk to the field with a plan to conduct 25,000 on-site inspections of companies hiring foreign workers over this fiscal year. The ...

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• Citrix: IT trends from now to 2012
  Jennifer Kavur
  Nov 17 2009

  Next year will be the year of the virtual desktop, according to Raj Dhingra, vice-president and general manager of desktop delivery at Citrix Systems Inc. Speaking at a press event in Budapest, ...

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• Google Updates Google Earth App for iPhone
  Jacqueline Emigh
  Nov 17 2009

  Google today announced version 2.0 of Google Earth for the iPhone and iPod touch, just over a year after releasing the first edition of the application, a piece of software which quickly turned into ...

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• 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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