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U.S. court upholds new FCC video franchising rules
Court hands a victory to new competitors in the subscription television business, upholding new federal rules designed to ease their entry into local communities.
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Mobile Linux standards forum gives up
Efforts to standardize mobile Linux get put on hold after the Linux Phone Standards Forum announced it's merging with the Linux Mobile Foundation.
June 26, 2008, 12:02 PM PDT
RFID safe for medical monitoring?
Dutch scientists find that the tracking-and-tracing chips can interfere with hospital equipment, thus putting patients in danger.
June 26, 2008, 8:11 AM PDT
Mobile phone battery dead? Try dancing
Phone operator teams with firm specializing in renewable energy to produce a recharger powered by dance energy alone.
(From Reuters)
June 24, 2008, 6:25 PM PDT
Symbian's new mobile-app role
roundup With an acquisition and a new foundation, Nokia casts the operating system into the limelight hogged by iPhone and Android.
June 24, 2008, 2:28 PM PDT
First Symbian Foundation handsets due in 2010
The move by Nokia and allies to spur the development of mobile Web applications is seen as a major strike against Google and its nascent Android platform.
June 24, 2008, 6:53 AM PDT
Broadcom's Samueli to plead guilty in backdating case
Company co-founder Henry Samueli expected to plead guilty to the single count of making a false statement to SEC investigators.
(From Reuters)
June 23, 2008, 4:03 PM PDT
FCC sides with cable in dispute with Verizon
Regulators vote to bar wireless provider from marketing to customers to talk them out of a decision to switcher their phone service to cable.
(From Reuters)
June 21, 2008, 9:32 AM PDT
WiMax Forum certifies first 2.5GHz products
More than 100 mobile WiMax products will be certified by the year's end, with more than 1,000 certified by 2011, it predicts.
June 19, 2008, 7:42 AM PDT
Europe's first mobile WiMax launches
Amsterdam is the first site for a commercial network that uses a mobile version of the WiMax standard to enable broadband browsing on the go.
(From Reuters)
June 18, 2008, 9:11 AM PDT
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Skype's latest focuses on watching who you call
Broadcom ex-CEO pleads not guilty in criminal cases
Motorola to halve research labs
Pearl Jam goes mobile with authorized bootlegs
JetBlue LiveTV to buy Verizon's Airfone network
Vodafone rings the changes with Sarin departure
Phone business rings up change
AT&T: Internet to hit full capacity by 2010
CTIA 2008: Mobile showdown in Sin City
New York City subpoenas creator of text messaging code
Court leaves intact ban on Qualcomm selling some chips
Google sees surge in Web use on hot mobile phones
iPhone finds favor with business users
Police Blotter: Armed robbers nabbed through text messages
Mobile's GSMA showcase: Android and more
RIM: BlackBerry's future lies in social networking
Operators hit back at EU data-roaming threat
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