The U.S. International Trade Commission has decided to review an earlier decision that Apple did not infringe four patents of Samsung Electronics in its mobile devices including the iPhone and iPad. The ITC plans to discuss in the review ...
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Apple has agreed to pay a £1.43m fine for misleading Australians about the 4G capacity of its latest iPad in a case brought by the national consumer watchdog. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said Apple had ...
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Ofcom today gave the go-ahead for Everything Everywhere to use its existing spectrum allocation for 4G mobile services in the UK. Ofcom's decision means Everything Everywhere – formed from the merger of Orange and T-Mobile – ...
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Google's Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt wrote to Europe's top antitrust authorities with proposals aimed at avoiding a fine for anticompetitive behavior and abuse of its dominant market position. The European Commission confirmed Monday ...
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Microsoft today opened its virtual store and began selling upgrades to Windows 8 Pro for $39.99, making good on a promise made last summer. The upgrade, which must be downloaded and installed via a utility called "Windows 8 Upgrade ...
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AT&T has agreed to pay $700,000 and refund certain customers said to have been overcharged on smartphone plans, after the Federal Communications Commission found that some customers were moved to more expensive monthly plans without their ...
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Australia's federal government will establish an Anti-Dumping Commission and introduce stricter remedies against overseas producers in a bid to protect Australia's manufacturing industry. The changes will be a major boost for Australia's ...
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European Union regulators will not force Microsoft to open its Windows RT operating system to rival browsers, the Brussels-based antitrust agency said Wednesday. At the same time, the European Competition Commission served Microsoft with ...
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Computerworld - Microsoft last week began providing European consumers a "browser ballot screen" for Windows 8, a move that may be just the first of several steps the company will take to head off a new antitrust investigation. According ...
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Tokyo’s new governor, Naoki Inose, announced the city would subsidize companies with a project to mine rare earth elements from the seabed off Minami-Torishima Island, to the southeast of Tokyo. The Asahi Shimbum reports that ...
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Computerworld - Microsoft will walk away from the "Metro" tag it's been using for over a year to describe the new environment and apps in both Windows 8 and Windows RT, the company confirmed Friday. "We have used Metro style as a code ...
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Computerworld - Twitter is basking in the Olympic spotlight, with athletes tweeting about the games and fans around the world offering their support on the social network. Social networks from Facebook to Google+ are seeing numerous users ...
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Network World - It's not clear if the Federal Trade Commission is throwing up its hands at the problem or just wants some new ideas about how to combat it, but the agency is now offering $50,000 to anyone who can create what it calls an ...
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IDG News Service - Google has proposed a settlement of its antitrust case to the European Commission that involves labeling its own services when it presents them in search results, news reports said Wednesday. But complainants in the ...
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Mr Jyotiraditya M Scindia minister of Power said that the Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana for rural household electrification was launched in 2005 by Government of India. The scheme is being implemented through State Discoms and ...