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Executive Editor, RealTechNews
December 31st, 2005 was the deadline for cellular carriers to provide E911, or enhanced 911 service to 95% of their customers. This service would give dispatchers the location of a 911 call. The FCC has proposed fines totaling US$2.8 million to three wireless carriers for failing to that [...]

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NBC Universal is the number one supplier of digital video that is distributed on iTunes, with 40% of the downloads, yet it was unable to come to terms with Apple – over what else, money. Because of this, it will not be renewing its distribution contract with Apple.
The company’s contract [...]

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It’s been nearly two weeks since the last Apple iPhone battery lawsuit. How time flies when lawyers are preparing briefs.
On Wednesday, attorneys for plaintiffs Zoltan Stiener and Ynez Stiener filed a class action complaint against Apple and AT&T in federal court in Oakland, Calif.
The lawsuit alleges breach of [...]

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Poor Windows XP gets no attention at all any more. The big news this week has been the formal announcement of Windows Vista SP1. But Windows XP will get a service pack, too – SP3. However, it’ll just be a boring rollup of all the fixes since SP2, meaning all [...]

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By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews
Remember the WGA server outage of a few days ago, the one which basically resulted in everyone trying to activate – or patch – being labeled a pirate? It was caused by the one thing it’s almost impossible to guard against: human error.
According to Microsoft, as they wrote on the WGA [...]

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It’s bad enough when a data breach occurs. It’s worse when a breach that involves over a million users. But then to be told that an investigation shows it wasn’t the first time – but they just now discovered it – wow.
The theft of personal information from some 1.3 million [...]

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Nuisance lawsuit? Perhaps. AOL, Amazon, Borders, Google, IAC, and Yahoo all stand accused of violating a patent on automatic message routing held by Texas-based Polaris IP.
The lawsuit charges the companies with implementing systems that “comprise interpreting electronic messages with rule base and case base knowledge engines” as described in the [...]

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By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews
After a lot of speculation, leaked builds and closed beta testing – without specific public details about SP1 – Microsoft today posted an announcement on their official Windows Vista blog detailing SP1 and their plans for it.
Now is the time and the time is now: let’s talk about Windows Vista [...]