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Reuters:
Verizon Wireless files suit over FCC auction rules — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Verizon Wireless has asked a federal court to overturn open-access rules that the U.S. Federal Communications Commission is imposing on the winner of valuable wireless airwaves to be auctioned this winter.
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Jeffrey Silva / RCR Wireless News:
Verizon Wireless sues over 700 MHz open-access conditions — Verizon Wireless challenged in federal appeals court the Federal Communications Commission's 700 MHz open-access rules, the opening salvo in what could evolve into a messy legal battle. The move puts a cloud of uncertainty …
Chris Sacca / Google Public Policy Blog:
Consumer choice is always the right answer — As loyal readers of this blog know, earlier this year the Federal Communications Commission took some significant steps to giving consumers more choices when it comes to high-speed wireless Internet access. The FCC set rules for the upcoming …
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Verizon unhappy with 700MHz open access requirements, sues FCC — When the Federal Communications Commission issued its final set of rules for the upcoming 700MHz spectrum auction, reaction was mixed. Open access proponents were disappointed that the FCC failed to include all four …
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Nick / Rough Type:
A very silly report on "fair use" — The Computer & Communications Industry Association, a lobbying group for tech companies, has just issued a report called "Fair Use in the U.S. Economy." It purports to show that "the fair use economy" is larger than the "copyright economy."
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www.ccianet.org:
Fair Use Economy Represents One-Sixth of U.S. GDP — WASHINGTON D.C. - Fair Use exceptions to U.S. copyright laws are responsible for more than $4.5 trillion in annual revenue for the United States, according to the findings of an unprecedented economic study released today.
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Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
New Google Moon — Google has revamped their Google Moon maps site. It's not loading too well here, but maybe you're more lucky. You can now see little astronaut icons with info bubbles for specific moonlanding sites. Also, as Pau in the forum notes, the "cheese surface" easter egg …
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BBC:
Google backs private Moon landing — Search giant Google is offering a $30m prize pot to private firms that land a robot rover on the Moon. — The competition to send a robot craft to the Moon is being run with the X-Prize Foundation. — To claim the cash, any craft reaching …
Mike Collett-White / Reuters:
Prince to sue YouTube, eBay over music use — LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. pop star Prince plans to sue YouTube and other major Web sites for unauthorized use of his music in a bid to "reclaim his art on the Internet." — The man behind hit songs "Purple Rain," "1999" and "When Doves Cry" …
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David Pogue / New York Times:
A Baffling New Phenomenon: Customized Ringtones — At last week's presentation for journalists in California, Apple unveiled a refreshed iPod lineup and several secondary developments. One of them, which I didn't have room to cover in my iPod review today, involves the availability of custom ringtones for the iPhone.
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
The Ringtones Racket — Steve Jobs, introducing iTunes 7.4 during last week's Apple special event: "We're going to ship a new version of iTunes tonight, to support some of the new products you're going to hear about shortly. And the biggest new feature is going to be ringtones.
Microsoft Update Product Team Blog:
How Windows Update Keeps Itself Up-to-Date — There have been some questions raised about how we service the Windows Update components and concerns expressed about software installing silently. I want to clarify the issue so that everyone can better understand why the self-updating of Windows Update acts the way it does.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google To Present At TechCrunch40 — We just got permission to post this - On top of everything else we've got planned, Google will present something at TechCrunch40 next week. Like the AOL and Yahoo product launches, it will not be eligible for the $50,000 top prize awarded to the best new startup product.
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Sophos:
Big fish caught in the net — A few days ago SophosLabs became aware of a malicious script detection (Mal/ObfJS-C) triggering on webpages of the U.S. Consulate General in St. Petersburg, Russia. — We immediately checked the site but could not reproduce the detection.
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Caroline McCarthy / Webware.com:
IS MTV WORKING ON A BRANDED SOCIAL NETWORK? — Do we really need another social networking site? Apparently so, and we're not talking about start-ups here. — What we're hearing—and this is industry cocktail-party gossip, albeit a very believable variety thereof—is that MTV Networks …
