News: Standards & Legal

• Mystery shopper site settles with FTC
  Grant Gross
  Dec 04 2008
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  • Standards & Legal

  A Web-based operation that promised customers they could make big money as mystery shoppers will pay US$850,000 to settle charges of deceptive advertising and contempt brought by the U.S. Federal ...

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• Apple, AT&T asks court to dismiss 3G speed lawsuit
  Jim Dalrymple
  Dec 04 2008
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  • Standards & Legal

  In separate claims filed with the court, Apple and AT&T have asked that the lawsuit brought against the companies by Avi Koschitzki be dismissed. The lawsuit claims slow 3G speeds and hairline ...

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• Intel, Google asked to help revise EU data protection laws
  Paul Meller
  Dec 04 2008
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  • Standards & Legal

  The European Commission has set up an advisory panel including executives from Google and Intel to help it revise European Union laws on data protection. "The aim of the group is to identify issues ...

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• Telstra execs unveil prodigious plans for broadband network
  Darren Pauli
  Dec 04 2008
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  • Standards & Legal

  Upgrades to the $10 billion National Broadband Network (NBN) will be hindered or impossible if sub-loop unbundling, part of a call for structural separation, is mandated, according to top Telstra ...

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• Groups push for net neutrality in Obama administration
  Grant Gross
  Dec 03 2008
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  • Standards & Legal

  Advocates of net neutrality rules in the U.S. have called on President-elect Barack Obama to act quickly to prevent broadband providers from blocking or impairing access to Internet content of ...

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• Greens say Australian NBN will flop in private hands
  Darren Pauli
  Dec 03 2008
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  • Standards & Legal

  Greens senator Scott Ludlam has warned the government it will botch the $4.7 billion National Broadband Network (NBN) if it awards the contract to a private company. Ludlam said the NBN must remain ...

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• AMD accuses Intel of trying to stall EC antitrust case
  Paul Meller
  Dec 03 2008
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  • Standards & Legal

  Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices has accused Intel of deliberately stalling a European Union antitrust investigation through Intel's appeal to Europe's second highest court in October, a senior AMD ...

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• Pirate Bay to remain blocked in Denmark
  Rune Pedersen
  Dec 03 2008
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  • Standards & Legal

  The Danish Eastern High Court ruled last week that it is up to Internet service providers to ensure that their customers do not use the Swedish torrent-tracking site The Pirate Bay to download ...

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• Mitac loses Mio trademark suit in Singapore
  Sumner Lemon
  Dec 03 2008
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  • Standards & Legal

  A Singapore court has ruled against Taiwan's Mitac International in its bid to prevent operator Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) from using the Mio brand. "We are pleased with the outcome of ...

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• Chinese city requires Net cafes to use legitimate software
  Sumner Lemon
  Dec 02 2008
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  • Standards & Legal

  Nanchang, the capital of China's eastern Jiangxi province, has required Internet cafe operators to replace pirated server software with licensed versions. Cafes that don't will lose their license to ...

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