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Rob Kelley / CNN:
BlackBerry maker, NTP ink $612 million settlement — Research in Motion averts shutdown of wireless e-mail service, announces fourth-quarter warning. — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - BlackBerry maker Research in Motion said Friday it agreed to pay $612.5 million to patent holding company NTP …
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CNET News.com:
BlackBerry saved — update The long-running BlackBerry saga appears to be over. — Research In Motion and NTP have agreed to settle the patent dispute over the BlackBerry device for $612.5 million, the companies announced in a press release on Friday. Under the agreement …
rim.net:
Research In Motion and NTP Sign Definitive Settlement Agreement to End Litigation — Waterloo, ON - Research In Motion Limited (RIM) (NASDAQ:RIMM; TSX: RIM) and NTP, Inc. (NTP) today announced that they have signed a definitive licensing and settlement agreement.
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MobileTracker
System Integrity Team Blog:
Back-door nonsense — Two weeks ago BBC News published an article speculating about a possible "back door" in BitLocker (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_ politics/4713018.stm). The suggestion is that we are working with governments to create a back door so that they can always access BitLocker-encrypted data.
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Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Microsoft: Vista won't get a backdoor — Windows Vista won't have a backdoor that could be used by police forces to get into encrypted files, Microsoft has stressed. — In February, a BBC News story suggested that the British government was in discussions with Microsoft over backdoor access to the operating system.
Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
Better mail than jail — Drew Bell unsubscribes. — Roy Schestowitz unsubscribes and goes even further: "[Scoble's] reputation is overrated. When it comes to technology, I found that Scoble cannot tell his ass from his face." — My reply? First I want to reply to a couple others he made.
Tim / O'Reilly Radar:
ASP.Net on a Roll — With all of the buzz about Ruby on Rails and AJAX, not a lot of people have noticed that Microsoft is making another really good run at the web development space. Based on book sales data, it looks like ASP.Net 2. is on fire, with ASP-related book sales up 53% since …
Read/WriteWeb:
Reuters and Media Nirvana — Some interesting reactions to Reuters CEO Tom Glocer's speech at the Online Publishers Association. I thought it was encouraging news and in my previous post I (somewhat breathlessly) compared it to Associated Press CEO Tom Curley's similar speech a year ago.
Dennis Rice / GottaBeMobile.com:
Origami expectations .., and "What's already out there?" — I'm not gonna do any speculation in this post about Origami. I do feel the need to warn you though - don't get confused until you know the facts. If people are convinced that Origmai is an "UltraMobile PC" (UMPC) …
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Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Dogster or Newsvine in the Fox Interactive house? — Still speculating on who Fox Interactive has acquired, but won't reveal for a few weeks, Jeff Nolan is betting on Dogster, but also thinks that Tagged, Skobee or Meetro could be the target. Newsvine has also been mentioned.
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JayWeintraub.com, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Under the Radar, The Blog Herald and re:invention blog
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Mobile Industry Doesn't Get Consumers — Imagine a conversation between a person who only knows Norwegian and other who is fluent only in Swahili. Well, that precisely the relationship between mobile industry and its executives and the consumers. RBC Capital Markets at its Mobility Evolution Conference …
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Patricia Huang / Forbes:
Take My Music, Please — Just like its competitors, Tower Records is having a hard time selling music at its stores. Unlike its competitors, Tower has a novel response: It's going to give its music away on the Internet. — The 90-store chain plans to open a new online service this summer …
Agence France Presse:
Text messaging remains top service for mobile phone users: IDC — SINGAPORE (AFP) - Text messaging remains the most popular service for mobile phone users in the Asia Pacific despite offers for fancier applications such as email and gaming, an industry research group said.
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Engadget Mobile
Ars Technica:
New radio Broadcast Flag legislation seeks to control innovation, eliminate fair use — The radio broadcast flag is gaining momentum. House Representative Mike Ferguson (R-N.J.) is introducing legislation that would establish a broadcast flag for audio and also change the way in which the music industry licenses radio itself.
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Jeremy / POP! PR Jots:
Shel Israel and Robert Scoble at New Communications Forum — Robert Scoble and Shel Israel, the authors of Naked Conversations, closed out the New Communications Forum speaking about, well, about blogging and how it's changing communications. — Scoble and Israel are talking about how lists …
Reuters:
Testing cell phone radiation on human skin — Finland's radiation watchdog is to study the effects of mobile phones on human proteins by direct tests on people's skin, to see if handset transmissions affect their health. — A pilot study, to be conducted next week, will expose a small area …
Ryan Block / Engadget:
PhillyFi details beamed into the ether — Remember the PhillyFi project that EarthLink was workingon? The one in progress for a while now, intended to blanket the City ofBrotherly Love in 802.11? Well, Philly's officially disclosing some details of the deal, if you're so interested …
Yahoo! Search blog:
Searching out the video buzz on Hollywood's biggest night — Here at Yahoo!, we work on bringing you lots of ways to tap the web for whatever interests you - movies, music, games, etc - both on Yahoo and from across the web. — This weekend, we're featuring news, images …
