Apple has been granted a preliminary injunction against the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet, according to press reports. This means the device can no longer be distributed anywhere in the European Union (with the exception of the Netherlands).
Apple claims the Galaxy Tab infringes part of the iPad's design.
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The Competition Appeal Tribunal has upheld BT's appeal against Ofcom's ruling that call termination charges for 'non geographic' numbers couldn't be increased.
As a result, BT can now claim higher payments from the UK's mobile networks when connecting calls to 0845, 0870 and 0800 numbers.
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Wednesday's edition of The Fonecast sees Iain and James bringing their regular mix of insight and humour to a wide range of topics, from Ofcom's 'smartphone addiction' survey to Google's patent complaints and RIM's new BlackBerry devices.
You'll find the programme via our web-based audio player, on iTunes and by subscribing to our RSS feed.
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Mark Bridge writes:
David Drummond, Google's Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer, has just written a blog post that describes an 'anti-competitive strategy' against Android by companies including Apple, Microsoft and Oracle. Entitled "When patents attack Android", it points out that more than 550,000 Android devices are now activated every day... and says this has resulted in "a hostile, organized campaign against Android".
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Ofcom has published new research that looks at customer service satisfaction with the UK's largest landline, broadband, mobile and pay TV providers.
Thousands of consumers were interviewed in February as part of Ofcom's research and were asked to rate their customer service experience if they'd recently contacted their provider.
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