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December 2, 2009

Case Dismissed

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AT&T has dropped its lawsuit against Verizon’s ad campaign which compares AT&T’s 3G network unfavorably with Verizon’s. This was in response to a judge’s ruling that said, according to Bloomberg (linked above), when stripped of the legalese, that AT&T didn’t have a prayer of winning: In return, Verizon dropped its suit asking a Federal Court […]

July 11, 2009

Facebook in Power (dot com) Struggle

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Power dot com, an agregator for social networking sites, has sued Facebook over issues of access. The suit, however, is framed in terms of “Who owns users’ data?” The Reuters story (full story here) is short of details of what exactly Power dot com wants to do with the data, but I’m guessing it’s an […]