EU Warns on Telecom Rules

January 27, 12 by David Goldstein

European Union member countries that fail to implement the bloc’s new rules on consumer rights for telephone and Internet services could be taken to Europe’s highest court as soon as next month, EU Digital Commissioner Neelie Kroes said Thursday.

The rules are designed to gi...

DOT tries to put the “fair” in airfare pricing

January 27, 12 by Jillian Ryan

Earlier this week I booked a flight from New York to Miami.  Even though JetBlue only flies to the nearby Fort Lauderdale, I couldn't pass up the advertisement in an e-mail sent to me: Book Today, $89 each way from JFK. When I went online to look up fares, I did not see that fantastic rat...

Big SOPA Victory on Internet Buoys Lobby

January 27, 12 by David Goldstein

The unlikely coalition of companies and consumer groups that last week helped quash antipiracy legislation on Capitol Hill is now weighing the future of what might be called lobbying 2.0. Can the Internet industry, along with legions of newly politicized Web users, be a new force in Washington...

Apple reigns as world’s top smartphone vendor in Q4

January 27, 12 by CNET News.com
Apple grew by 128 percent and shipped 37 million smartphones in the fourth quarter of 2011, overtaking Samsung.

Nokia celebrates 1.5bn phones running on S40

January 26, 12 by David Goldstein

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia says it has shipped the 1.5 billionth phone running its S40 operating system.

The first S40 phone was sold in 1999, and the software underpinned Nokia’s commercial success for years.

“It’s difficult to think of a product line wit...