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Podcast - 15th June 2011

In this week's podcast we discuss Apple's legal settlement with Nokia, 4G plans for the UK, Everything Everywhere's new shops, HP's new tablet and the rest of the UK's industry news headlines.

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Apple agrees to pay Nokia as patent litigation ends

Nokia has signed a patent license agreement with Apple that'll see all patent litigation settled between the companies.

The specific terms of the contract are confidential, although there'll be a one-off payment payable by Apple and on-going royalties paid by Apple to Nokia for the term of the agreement.

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T-Mobile, the Information Commissioner's Office and the stolen customer information

Mark Bridge writes:

The Information Commissioner's Office - the UK authority that upholds information rights - has published details of its recent case involving T-Mobile. Contact information and expiry dates for minimum-term contracts were being sold to third parties, enabling mobile phone dealers to target potential customers who were in a position to sign a new contract... which could earn the dealer hundreds of pounds for a new connection.

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This week at The Fonecast: 11th June 2011

Mark Bridge writes:

On Monday there seemed to be a dearth of mobile news as the industry held its breath and waited for Steve Jobs to speak.

Why there was quite so much breath-holding beats me, because Apple had already told us what the announcement was going to cover. Anyway, we learned about iOS 5, which will arrive in the autumn, and its 200 new features – including a new messaging service called iMessage.

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T-Mobile UK data thieves fined and threatened with jail

Two former employees of T-Mobile UK who stole customer information and sold it to other businesses have been ordered to pay a total of £73,700 in fines and confiscation costs. David Turley and Darren Hames pleaded guilty to a number of offences under Section 55 of the Data Protection Act last year.

T-Mobile contacted the Information Commissioner's Office in 2008 after discovering that customer names, addresses, telephone numbers and contract end dates were being passed on to third parties.

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