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Submission + - Microsoft approved to administer TV white space da (fiercebroadbandwireless.com)

phonewebcam writes: "The FCC's Office of Engineering and Technology (OET) has named Microsoft as an administrator of the TV white spaces database, despite the company filing late and others opposing its designation.
Microsoft is now required to develop and operate a TV bands database in its geographic area that will locate the unused slivers of broadcast spectrum. Microsoft is now the 10th company the FCC has designated as a white space database provider."

Android

Submission + - BT sues Google over Android (guardian.co.uk)

phonewebcam writes: "British Telecom is claiming billions of dollars of damages from Google in a lawsuit filed in the US which says that the Android mobile operating system infringes a number of the telecoms company's key patents.

The lawsuit, filed in the state of Delaware in the US, relates to six patents which BT says are infringed by the Google Maps, Google Music, location-based advertising and Android Market products on Android.

If successful, the suit could mean that Google or mobile handset makers will have to pay BT royalties on each Android handset in use and which they produce."

Comment Re:NFC (Score 0, Offtopic) 213

That's what Apple tells its users when they ask why it wasn't on the iPhone 4S. The one with the tiny screen. And no 4G. Thankfully all that will change next summer when it will of course be trumpeted as a fantastic innovation on the iPhone5 and Apple can begin the busy work of suing everyone else copying their work.

Actually NFC is even funnier than that - they way the rollout is going you'll soon have checkouts offering "Fast Phone Payments" or however they spin it, so those with the right equipment (cough!) can zip past those standing in line next to them at the regular checkout with their fingers in their ears going "la la la la don't need that la la la pretend we're outside an Apple store la la la".

Submission + - French President Nicholas Sarkozy's pad busted for (torrentfreak.com)

phonewebcam writes: "French President Nicholas Sarkozy is a man who has championed some of the most aggressive anti-piracy legislation in Europe. But today it’s revealed that the occupants of his very own office and home are responsible for a nice selection of pirate downloads using BitTorrent. Three strikes? Those with access to the Presidential Palace’s IP addresses have already doubled that quota.

Located near the Champs-Élysées in the French capital, Paris, the Élysée Palace is the official residence of President Sarkozy. As husband of ‘first lady’ and musician Carla Bruni, Sarkozy has helped promote and push through some of the toughest anti-filesharing legislation to be found anywhere in Europe."

Android

Submission + - Microsoft wants you to diss Android for a free WP7 (cnet.co.uk)

phonewebcam writes: "As the WP7 market share hovers around what Android would consider a rounding error, Microsoft sinks to a new level of desperation:

"This could be a little controversial. Microsoft is offering the chance of winning a free Windows Phone, in exchange for Android owners sharing tales of woe on Twitter concerning Google's operating system, Electric Pig reports.

People are encouraged to use the hashtag #droidrage to vent their dissatisfaction.

Windows Phone 'evangelist' Ben Rudolph tweeted: "Share your android malware story... and you could win a #windowsphone upgrade."""

Comment Re:P0WN3D! (Score 2) 349

I can't wait to see what TV's Apple come up with which aren't large, square, thin, black rectangular devices controlled by a remote, of the type Samsung has led the market with for over a decade. Because if they don't, it will be "obvious to anyone with common sense viewing Apple's designs that Apple will be deliberately aping Samsungs designs. The dimensions would be the same, the look would be the same, the chargers and cables would be the same."

iTouche.

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