2014년 12월 16일 화요일

The Switchboard: The feds want to fine Sprint for spammy charges

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Five tech stories you need to read today  •  Tue., Dec. 16, 2014
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The Switchboard: The feds want to fine Sprint for spammy charges
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Published every weekday, the Switchboard is your morning helping of hand-picked stories from the Switch team.
Jury begins deliberations in billion-dollar Apple iTunes trial. Ars Technica reports: "The jury will make an unusual split decision, deliberating first over the narrow issue of whether iTunes 7.0 was a true product improvement or an anti-competitive scheme to kick out Apple competitor RealNetworks."
Uber and Lyft’s bitter battle for Tampa. BuzzFeed reports: "But even as the company, most recently valued at $41 billion, makes its way to the Asia-Pacific it continues to fight regulatory battles in the locations it is already operating in — whether legally or illegally."
FCC plans massive fine of Sprint for bogus charges. National Journal reports: "According to the enforcement action, which hasn't been finalized, Sprint billed customers for third-party services it knew they hadn't asked for and didn't want. The planned fine is being reviewed by all five FCC commissioners, but they haven't voted to take action yet."
Comcast, Charter and Time Warner Cable all say Obama's net neutrality plan shouldn't worry investors. "Executives from each of the three broadband companies said at an industry conference last week that the prospect of more stringent rules was something they could — grudgingly, in some cases — live with," The Washington Post reports.
Diverse allies rally for Microsoft in overseas data fight."Corporate lobbyists, news organizations and academics joined forces with Microsoft Corp on Monday in the software company's legal battle with the U.S. government over access to customer data stored overseas," according to Reuters.


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