News: Standards & Legal

• Sprint to lay off more than 2,000
  Nancy Gohring
  Nov 09 2009

  Sprint Nextel expects to lay off as many as 2,500 people by year’s end, on the heels of reporting that it lost 545,000 customers in its third quarter. The operator could let go as few as 2,000 ...

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• Airtel Gets Consistency With Delivery Platform
  CIO India staff
  Nov 09 2009

  With various services under its fold - from the ubiquitous mobile to the rather new IPTV - Bharti Airtel had to find a way to ensure consistency of its services across platforms. Consistency of user ...

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• Google, plaintiffs blow book search settlement deadline
  Juan Carlos Perez
  Nov 09 2009

  Google, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers (AAP) need more time to revise the proposed settlement of the copyright infringement lawsuits the author and publisher ...

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• Google, plaintiffs blow book search settlement deadline
  Juan Carlos Perez
  Nov 09 2009

  Google, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers (AAP) need more time to revise the proposed settlement of the copyright infringement lawsuits the author and publisher ...

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• Google to buy mobile ad company
  Nancy Gohring
  Nov 09 2009

  Google plans to buy mobile advertising provider AdMob for US$750 million stock, the search giant said on Monday. AdMob is a leader in mobile advertising and already serves ads for some applications ...

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• BlackBerry Developers to Get New Tools in Adobe's CS5
  Al Sacco
  Nov 09 2009

  Research In Motion (RIM) along with Adobe Systems today announced an expanded partnership in which the two companies will bring new software development tools to BlackBerry mobile application ...

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• RIM Brings Development, Admin Courses to Universities
  Al Sacco
  Nov 09 2009

  BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) kicked off its second annual BlackBerry Developer Conference with a bang this morning, announcing its new BlackBerry Academic Program, which brings ...

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• Verizon vs. AT&T: The Ad Wars Shift
  Ian Paul
  Nov 09 2009

  Getting into the spirit of the season, Verizon is enlisting the aid of elves, Elvis, and stop-motion puppets in its holiday offensive against AT&T. In a new set of ads (see video at the end of ...

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• Google to buy mobile ad company
  Nancy Gohring
  Nov 09 2009

  Google plans to buy mobile advertising provider AdMob for US$750 million stock, the search giant said on Monday. AdMob is a leader in mobile advertising and already serves ads for some applications ...

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• Domain auction site faces shill bidding lawsuit
  Grant Gross
  Nov 09 2009

  A Miami lawyer has filed a class-action lawsuit against domain name auction site SnapNames.com, after the company announced that a former employee was bidding against potential customers in domain ...

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