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Vonage lawyer: Ruling a 'bullet to the head' — Judge says Internet phone company can use patented technology for existing customers. — ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Reuters) — Vonage Holdings Corp. cannot service new customers while it appeals a finding that it infringed Verizon Communications Inc. patents …
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Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Judge puts halt on new Vonage customers — update ALEXANDRIA, Va.—A federal judge on Friday ordered Vonage not to accept any new customers while it continues to infringe on Verizon Communications patents covering some aspects of Internet phone calls. — In at least a temporary setback …
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Alan Sipress / Washington Post:
Patent Ruling Impact — The Internet Phone Upstart Could Lose a Technology and a Future — Verizon has thrown a lifeline to rival Vonage Holdings, suggesting that the Internet phone provider could continue serving its customers despite a judge's ruling ordering it to stop using …
Carlo / Techdirt:Judge In Patent Case Puts Noose Around Vonage's Neck
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Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
VeriSign to raise domain fees — VeriSign on Thursday said it that it will increase the fees it charges for Internet domains ending in .com or .net. — Starting October 15, VeriSign will charge $6.42 for .com domains and $3.85 for .net domains, it said in a statement.
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Mininova Wins .com Domain, Takes Down Scammer — Earlier this year mininova.org already claimed the .net domain, which was handed over to them by it's former owner without any problems. The .com domain was a different story. — The site hosted at the .com domain was a classic example of a phishing scam.
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Jonathan Richards / Times of London:
Microsoft set to unlock EMI songs — The software giant is on the verge of a deal similar to Apple's with EMI to sell tracks without anti-piracy protection — Microsoft has hinted that it may be close to reaching a deal with EMI to sell songs without anti-piracy protection via its Zune platform.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
AFP & Google Settle Over Google News Copyright Case — The most significant copyright case against Google News, that filed by Agence France-Presse back in March 2005, has now ended. Google has signed a licensing agreement with AFP that settles the suit. News from the AFP here.
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Seth Sutel / Associated Press:
Agence France-Presse, Google settle suit — NEW YORK - Agence France-Presse, a global news agency based in Paris, has settled its lawsuit against Google Inc. and will allow the Internet search leader to post news and photos from AFP journalists. — The deal, announced Friday …
Inquirer:
Intel to unveil new UMPC platform — Gates says jump, Otellini designs platform — INTEL WILL BE releasing a new ultra mobile PC platform at IDF Beijing, on April 18, according to slides published by HKEPC. — Whilst most have suggested the UMPC is a product which serves no readily discernible need …
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Rob Beschizza / Wired News:
Hackers Dissect Apple TV to Create the Cheapest Mac Ever — Apple TV is dead, long live the Mac Nano. Sort of. — Just two weeks after Apple released its streaming media box to the public, hackers successfully installed OS X, Apple's desktop operating system, on the $300 device, making it the cheapest PC Cupertino has ever sold.
Eric Goldman / Technology & Marketing Law Blog:
Google AdWords Contract Upheld (Again)—Feldman v. Google — Feldman v. Google, Inc., 2007 WL 966011 (E.D. Pa. March 29, 2007) — Yet another click fraud lawsuit, this time involving one of the 556 plaintiffs that opted out of the Google click fraud settlement.
Mike / Techdirt:
Rogers Traffic Shaping Making It Difficult For Users To Use Secure Email — from the nice-work dept — Canadian ISPs haven't been shy about using traffic shaping tools to try to slow down the use of things like BitTorrent. This is a lot of what the network neutrality debate is about …
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Ben Charny / MarketWatch:
Google's board objects to anticensorship proposal — SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Google Inc.'s board of directors recommended Wednesday that the company's shareholders vote against a proposal to bar the company from any "proactive" censorship efforts. — The board's opinion came to light …
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Tom Foremski / Silicon Valley Watcher:
Autonomy CEO says tags don't work — Mike Lynch, the CEO of Autonomy, the UK enterprise search company, was in town this week (video is coming). I used to meet with Mr Lynch regularly when I was at the Financial Times, and when the dotcom boom was in full swing.
Nick / Rough Type:
The real Web 2.0 — While the Techmeme crowd oohs and aahs over the latest social networking knockoff from Silicon Valley - do you think, perhaps, we've reached the point of diminishing returns? - the real second generation of the internet continues to take shape quietly in places like Quincy …
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Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
MediaMaster: Access Your Music Library Online — MediaMaster is a new web service that, like Faces and Oboe, let's users upload music from their hard drive and listen to it online. — The original service to experiment in this area was MP3.com's My.MP3.com service.
Simon Carless / Gamasutra:
GameTap Reveals Sega Saturn License, Plans — Turner's GameTap subscription PC 'all you can eat' gaming service has now added Sega Saturn games to its service, with the debut of platform game Bug! as a special Easter-timed Easter Egg for its service. — The game is currently filed as 'Insect? …
Alec Saunders .LOG:
Aikido, Retreat or War. What's your Microsoft strategy? — One of the more interesting trajectories to watch in the communications space over the last decade has been the growth of the Microsoft ecosystem. Literally a decade long strategy, it was conceived at the time that I ran …
