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Journalist recovers video of his arrest after police deleted it
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A Miami journalist has recovered video of police officers arresting him after it was deleted from his camera. The man was covering a police effort to evict Occupy Miami protestors. He plans to file a complaint with the police department and with the United States Department of Justice. On...
It’s official: U.S. files antitrust suit against Apple, publisher over e-book price fixing
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As just announced by Bloomberg on Twitter, the United States Department of Justice is suing Apple and Hachette over alleged e-book price fixing, as Reuters predicted would happen today. More updates shortly....
Government agency ditches BlackBerry for iPhone, iPad
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, an agency within the United States Department of Commerce, will stop using BlackBerry phones later this year and instead supply workers with Apple’s mobile devices. In a memo relayed by Loop Insight, NOAA’s Chief Information Officer and Director for High Performance Computing and Communications...
Scientists create self-healing plastic, the ‘Holy Grail of Material Science’
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Cell phones, tablets, cars and even weapons systems that can heal themselves when scratched or cracked are no longer confined to science fiction. During the American Chemistry Society’s annual conference on Monday, University of Southern Mississippi Professor Marek Urban demonstrated the new material and discussed numerous potential applications. When scratched or...
Apple goes directly after Google, secures full disclosure of Motorola purchase and Android roadmap
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Apple’s latest cunning move in its Holy Crusade against Android involves getting a court order to force Google, the maker of Android software, to produce documents detailing the Android roadmap and its proposed $12.5 billion acquisition of handset maker Motorola Mobility. It wasn’t immediately clear what data Apple was exactly...
Google-Motorola Deal Approved By U.S. Department Of Justice
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Just hours after the European Commission announced their approval of Google’s $12.5 billion Motorola purchase, the United States Department of Justice has announced that they too have given the deal their blessing. According to Reuters, the Department of Justice will continue to keep their eyes on Google to ensure that...
US Department of Justice approves Nortel patents purchase by Microsoft, Apple-led ‘Rockstar Consortium’
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Rockstar Consortium, an unusual partnership between the likes of Apple, Microsoft, Research In Motion, Ericsson and Sony, has received the green light from the United States Department of Justice (DoJ) for the $4.5 billion acquisition of approximately 4,000 patent assets that were previously owned by Nortel Networks. Back in July...
US Department of Justice approves Nortel patents purchase by Microsoft, Apple-led ‘Rockstar Consortium’
Google closes Motorola acquisition
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In line with earlier reports, Google on Tuesday finalized its acquisition of Motorola Mobility. The $12.5 billion merger was approved by regulators in China on Monday after having been given the green light by the United States Department of Justice this past February. Chinese regulators did stipulate terms for...
European Commission OKs Google-Motorola Deal, But Will Remain “Vigilant”
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While Google waits for the United States Department of Justice to sign off on their proposal to merge with handset maker Motorola Mobility, the European Commission has officially given the deal their approval. According to Commission Vice President Joaquín Almunia, the acquisition was approved because “upon careful examination, this transaction...
Breaking: US Department of Justice approves Nortel patents purchase by ‘Rockstar Consortium’
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Rockstar Consortium, an alliance between Apple, Microsoft, RIM, Ericsson and Sony, has received the green light from the United States’ Department of Justice (DoJ) for the acquisition of approximately 4,000 patent assets that were previously owned by Nortel Networks. We’re updating this post, here’s the press release: Rockstar Consortium Receives...
China approves Google’s Motorola buy, demands Android remain open
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The United States Department of Justice approved Google’s $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility this past February, but the massive deal awaited the blessing of one more major regulatory body before it could go through. This past weekend, China’s Ministry of Commerce followed the DOJ’s lead and granted Google...
What’s The Tech Industry Takeaway From The Apple E-Book Lawsuit? [TCTV]
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The United States Department of Justice’s antitrust lawsuit filed yesterday against Apple and five major book publishers for allegedly colluding and price-fixing e-books is still reverbing throughout the tech industry — after all, pretty much anything having to do with Apple these days is going to attract attention, and...
DOJ threatens Apple with antitrust suit over eBook price-fixing
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The United States Department of Justice has warned Apple and five top U.S. book publishers that it plans to file an antitrust lawsuit against them, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday evening. According to the paper’s multiple unnamed sources, the DOJ alleges that Apple colluded with publishers to...
ACTA deathwatch: profs call process unconstitutional, Europe revolts
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ACTA protestors send a message in Paris this past February. Roberto Pasini Just when you thought that everyone was content to let debates about the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) simmer down, a group of American legal scholars has now submitted an open letter to the United States Senate, challenging the...
Solar Mosaic Gets $2 Million DOE Grant To Build Out Crowdfunding Site For Solar Projects
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Solar Mosaic, a startup that’s aiming to be the “Kickstarter for solar projects,” has been awarded a $2 million grant from the United States Department of Energy (DOE) Sunshot Initiative. Solar Mosaic, which also goes by simply Mosaic, is building an online platform that facilitates crowdfunding of solar projects. Last...
DOJ closes investigation of Apple acquisition of Nortel and Novell patents on FRAND commitments
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In a statement from the United States Department of Justice clearing Google’s acquisition of Motorola, the DOJ also closed its investigations into Apple’s acquisition of certain Novell patents, and the Apple, Microsoft, and RIM acquisition of Nortel patents. The statement claimed concerns of unfair use of the patents were curbed...
Judge orders Google, Motorola to reveal Android data to Apple
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Apple’s latest cunning move in its Holy Crusade against Android involves getting a court order to force Google, the maker of Android software, to produce documents detailing the Android roadmap and its proposed $12.5 billion acquisition of handset maker Motorola Mobility. It wasn’t immediately clear what data Apple was exactly...
Sen. Al Franken to FCC: Still unhappy about Comcast-NBC merger
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Another year, another complaint from Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) against Comcast and its merger with NBC Universal that was approved last year. Just as he did before, the senator—now in a letter published publicly on Monday (PDF)—is "urging [the Federal Communications Commission and the United States Department of Justice] to...
Analysts: Apple has a strong case in DOJ’s lawsuit over ebook price-fixing
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Yesterday, the United States Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against Apple and five other publishers over ebook price-fixing. The DOJ has reached a settlement with three of the publishers in the suit, but Apple, MacMillan, and Penguin are standing strong (The States also are after Simon and Shuster)....
NTIA to make 95Mhz of ‘prime spectrum’ available to wireless carriers
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The United States Department of Commerce and National Telecommunications and Information Administration on Tuesday announced that the federal government has repurposed 95MHz of “prime spectrum” within the 1755-1850MHz band. As per President Obama’s request, the NTIA has been collaborating with the FCC in an effort to make 500MHz of...
DOJ investigates cable companies over Netflix net neutrality row
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The United States Department of Justice is trying to figure out whether cable companies are engaging in anti-competitive practices by not counting data consumed through their own homemade streaming services against customers’ monthly bandwidth caps while docking users’ caps for data streamed through third-party companies such as Netflix and...
DOJ likely to lose eBook antitrust suit against Apple
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The United States Department of Justice is likely to lose its antitrust lawsuit targeting Apple and book publishers, according to a report from CNET. A number of legal experts agree that the case against the Cupertino-based company isn’t as strong as the one against publishers. The DOJ “has a...
Google’s Motorola acquisition approved by Justice Department
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The United States Department of Justice has approved Google’s proposed $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility, Reuters’s Poornima Gupta reports. The deal gained regulatory approval from the European Commission earlier on Monday, and a U.S. approval was expected to follow today or later this week. Google revealed its intention...
Australian government considering lawsuit against Apple over eBook price-fixing
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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has urged local retailers to voice their concerns about eBook price-fixing as it considers a lawsuit against Apple and five of the world’s largest book publishers, The Financial Review reported on Thursday. “The ACCC has previously stated that impediments to emerging competition involving...
Tor Books to release only DRM-free e-books
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On Tuesday, Tom Doherty Associates, which publishes Tor Books, the world's largest science fiction imprint, announced that it would be making all of its e-books available in a DRM-free format by early July 2012. The move comes just six weeks after the United States Department of Justice filed an...
State Dept. gives Amazon $16.5M no-bid contract for Kindles
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The United States Department of State recently announced that it had awarded a $16.5 million contract to Amazon for the provision of e-reader and tablet devices for State Department employees. The contract was awarded on a no-bid basis, meaning Amazon secured the arrangement without the Department considering other manufacturers. In...
The Mobile Patent Wars: Are we Ready for This to go Thermonuclear?
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Everybody is armed, forces are deployed and the battleground is chosen. Let's get this thermonuclear war started. 2011 was the year that the major mobile platform providers loaded up with ammunition in the upcoming world war between Apple, Microsoft, Research In Motion and Google. Apple acquired patents from Novell...
DARPA reveals Avatar program, robot soldiers incoming
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DARPA, the bleeding-edge research wing of the United States Department of Defense, has revealed that it will spend millions of dollars on a project called “Avatar.” If you’ve seen the movie of the same name — the highest-grossing movie of all time — let me put your mind at rest:...
Google-Motorolla merger gets the go-ahead from Chinese government
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Chinese antitrust and competition authorities have approved Google to acquire Motorolla, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday. Google’s deal to purchase Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion dollars will likely close next week. The deal is said to give Google 17,000 patents and 6,800 pending patent applications owned by Motorola. China was the last regulatory hold-out...
Corn Makes You Fat
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Corn Makes You Fat is a post from Chris PirilloHere are a few corn-centric truths:Average high-fructose corn syrup consumed by an American in 1970: 0.6 pounds [George A Bray, Samara Joy Nielsen and Barry M Popkin, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol. 79, No. 4, 537-543, April 2004]Average high-fructose corn...
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