Apple Bans Speedtrap/DUI Checkpoint Apps After Senate Pressure
Apple has updated its App Store review guidelines to explicitly ban apps such as the popular Trapster as well as other apps that warn drivers of upcoming checkpoints for either speeding or roadside DUI checks. The ban comes after months of pressure by US lawmakers towards the iPhone manufacturer, believing that the apps encourage drunk […]
AT&T Ordered to Refund Nearly $1 Billion Related to Mobile Internet Taxes
AT&T has been ordered to pay nearly $1 billion dollars ($924 million to be exact) related to taxes charged as a result of collecting fees for mobile internet access. For nearly five years between November 2005 to September 2010, AT&T had been charging customers taxes based on the total amount of the monthly bill including […]
PayPal Files Suit Against Google for Wallet Payment System
Not long after the announcement of Google’s Wallet initiative yesterday, PayPal retaliated with litigation against the search and advertising giant for developing the service with trade secrets based on the hiring of former PayPal employees who are also being sued in Osama Bedier and Stephanie Tilenius. Below, PayPal’s official statement on the matter and a […]
Follow-Up: MetroPCS Forces Automatic Update on Samsung Indulge
Following up on Tuesday’s initial report about the first update for the MetroPCS Samsung Indulge, more specific information has surfaced on the changes made as well as the revelation of the potentially dangerous automatic forced update method used by the carrier to apply updates without any user interaction whatsoever, in a repeat of the Samsung […]
Sony Ericsson Drops Trademark Litigation Against Clearwire
Sony Ericsson has quietly announced in a press release that it has dropped all litigation against Clearwire filed in January of this year over the similarity of the Clear logo to Sony Ericsson’s trademark logo in use since the joint venture’s establishment in 2002. The press release goes on to detail that as a result […]
Carriers Blocking Android Tethering Apps, Sky Isn’t Falling (Yet)
Within the past few days, reports have sprung up confirming that carriers are blocking direct access to tethering apps on Android handsets in the wake of recent audits designed to stamp out tethering without paying additional fees, whether by rooting or non-rooted apps. Naturally, this has led to many to turn into Chicken Little and […]
Supreme Court Sides With AT&T on Arbitration Clauses
The US Supreme Court has rendered a decision in favor of AT&T on the usage of contractually enforced third-party arbitration for settling disputes with customers, greatly reducing the power of class action lawsuits by forcing individuals to fight disputes on an individual basis as spelled out in the service agreement. The 5-4 decision was entered […]
Nokia Cuts Jobs and Outsources Symbian Development to Accenture
Nokia has confirmed that it will cut 4,000 jobs related to research and development as well as an additional 3,000 via outsourcing contract to outsourcing firm Accenture, moving the internal Symbian development team to the firm in an attempt to save US$1.46 billion in R&D costs by 2013. The new deal is a further expansion […]