News: Standards & Legal

• China helps drive global growth of mobile subscribers
  Anuradha Shukla
  Nov 06 2009

  Infonetics Research has released its new Fixed and Mobile Subscribers market forecast report. The communications industry market research firm predicts the number of worldwide mobile subscribers to ...

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• US lawmakers propose changes in telecom subsidies
  Grant Gross
  Nov 06 2009

  Two U.S. lawmakers have proposed legislation that would allow money from a huge fund that subsidizes telephone and mobile service to parts of the U.S. to also go for broadband deployment. The ...

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• Skype's legal storm clears up
  Juan Carlos Perez
  Nov 06 2009

  The legal war over Skype has ended. Skype's cofounders, Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, have agreed to transfer ownership of the remaining Skype technology that eBay didn't own, paving the way for ...

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• eBay Reaches Deal With Skype Founders
  David Coursey
  Nov 06 2009

  Skype users can breathe easier, now that one of technology's greatest business blunders has been fixed. The outside chance of a Skype shutdown has gone away, messy lawsuits have been resolved, and ...

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• Norwegian ISP doesn't have to block Pirate Bay, says court
  Mikael Ricknäs
  Nov 06 2009

  Norwegian ISP Telenor doesn't have to block access to file-sharing site The Pirate Bay, according to a ruling from the district court for Asker and Bærum on Friday. The entertainment industry has ...

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• AT&T profiles specific cities in bid for coverage
  Stephen Lawson
  Nov 05 2009

  AT&T has created different mobile calling models for every major city in America as it tries to improve a network that has come under fire for poor performance as the data-friendly iPhone has ...

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• FTC expected to take antitrust action against Intel
  Sharon Gaudin
  Nov 05 2009

  With New York's Attorney General filing antitrust charges against Intel Corp. this week, industry watchers say the Federal Trade Commission will join the fray against the chip maker, maybe even ...

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• Ericsson's CTO heads to the US
  Mikael Ricknäs
  Nov 05 2009

  Ericsson CTO Håkan Eriksson is moving to Silicon Valley, where he will become the head of the company's Internet Protocol business as well as staying on as its CTO, the company said on ...

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• Verizon to offer prepaid laptop wireless data
  Nancy Gohring
  Nov 05 2009

  Following in Virgin Mobile's footsteps, Verizon is offering a prepaid laptop broadband wireless service. The offering will let people pay for broadband wireless access as they need it, rather than ...

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• Study calls for U.S. programs to address broadband demand
  Grant Gross
  Nov 05 2009

  The U.S. government should consider paying broadband providers for signing up subscribers in poor areas in an effort to increase demand for broadband, a new study from a tech-focused think tank ...

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