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Nokia upped the pressure on Qualcomm Wednesday in its long-running patent-licensing dispute with the company. In what it characterized as a “defensive move,” Nokia  filed a complaint in a Delaware court seeking to force Qualcomm  to abide by its international obligations to license technology essential to mobile phones. The San Diego-based Qualcomm is a major […]

Let the bidding begin. Wednesday morning, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) opens its advanced wireless services (AWS) auction with hopes of bagging as much as $15 billion from cell phone providers, cable companies, satellite broadcasters and outright speculators. Given the explosive demand for spectrum to deliver wireless video and broadband services, the FCC might well […]

There’s another data breach at the Veterans Administration (VA), this time exposing as many as 38,000 veterans to potential identity theft. Unisys Corp.  said Monday a desktop computer is missing from its suburban Washington office containing the personal data on approximately 18,000 veterans. Unisys and the VA also said they are investigating the possibility that […]

A year after winning a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case against Grokster, the recording industry is back in court pursuing LimeWire, a popular peer-to-peer (P2P) music file sharing service prospering in the place of Grokster. In a lawsuit filed Friday in New York, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) sued LimeWire for “staggering” copyright […]

Perhaps they should have ordered their lunch to go. Maryland police arrested two teenagers Friday morning at a suburban Maryland McDonald’s and charged them with the May theft of a Veterans Administration’s (VA) laptop that resulted in the largest data breach in federal government history. According to the VA, none of the data was used […]

Reporter’s Notebook: It’s all about the kids, you know. In an ugly fit of election year pandering to one of parents’ worse fears, the House recently passed the Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA). Sounds good, doesn’t it? Actually, it’s more like a Rope-a-Dope DOPA. The dopes, in this case, are lawmakers anxious to show the […]

As the Black Hat conference descends upon Las Vegas this week, internetnews.com presents a series of articles addressing security issues past and present. Since the now infamous ChoicePoint data breach 17 months ago, Congress has angrily talked of holding data brokers accountable for the security of consumers’ personal identifiable information. So far, it’s still just […]

Just a day after AOL’s parent company, Time Warner, announced AOL was shifting its focus from subscription-based revenue to advertising supported broadband services, AOL said it plans to cut 26 percent of its workforce over the next six months. CEO Jon Miller alerted employees of the pending cuts during a company-wide meeting today, AOL spokesperson […]

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ruled today memory chipmaker Rambus unlawfully cornered the market for dynamic random access memory (DRAM) by distorting the standards-setting process. The ruling only establishes Rambus’ liability and does not address financial remedies. The FTC plans further hearings to determine appropriate damages for the “substantial competitive harm that Rambus’ course of […]

David Carruthers pleaded not guilty Monday to charges he ran an illegal gambling operation while serving as CEO of U.K.-based BetonSports plc, one of the world’s largest online betting sites. Carruthers, 10 other individuals and four companies are at the center of a 22-count indictment issued by the United States in early July. According to […]

Microsoft filed a patent-infringement claim with the International Trade Commission (ITC) today against wireless electronics accessory maker Belkin. According to Microsoft, Belkin has refused to engage in significant licensing talks for the use of Microsoft’s U2 technology. The technology, according to Microsoft, enables a computer peripheral device to auto-sense whether it is plugging into a […]

Legislation designed to quicken the pace of health care IT implementation may reach President’s Bush desk this year after all. After languishing in two different committees for months, the U.S. House Thursday finally approved the Health Information Technology Promotion Act of 2005 (HIT). The bill would create an Office of the National Coordinator for Health […]