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Apple, Nokia, Others Get Greenlight from Greenpeace No Title Overall, Nokia does best on the toxic chemicals criteria, followed by energy. However, it needs to improve when it comes to e-waste issues. It gains a point for having almost all its new models of mobile phones free of BFRs (bromide flame retardants). Nokia scores very […]

Eastman Kodak filed lawsuits Jan. 14 claiming Apple and Research In Motion are infringing on Kodak’s patents for digital imaging technology. In a complaint to the U.S. International Trade Commission, Kodak alleged that “Apple’s iPhones and RIM’s camera-enabled BlackBerry devices infringe a Kodak patent that covers technology related to a method for previewing images.”Also, in […]

Prompted by Google’s report that the search giant and some 20 other companies were victims of sophisticated cyber-attacks from within China, Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., promised Jan. 13 to mark up his cyber-security legislation early this year. Introduced by Rockefeller and Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, in April and redrafted late this summer, the bill would create […]

The Chinese government had a relatively straightforward response Jan. 14 to Google’s threat to stop censoring searches on its Chinese language site, Google.cn: Follow the law. Google’s reversal of its China policy came after the search giant reported discovering evidence of cyber-attacks from within China aimed at gaining access to the Gmail accounts of human […]

In a dramatic reversal of policy, Google said Jan. 12 it will stop censoring searches on its Google.cn and reconsider the feasibility of even doing business there after the search giant reported cyber attacks from within China aimed at gaining access to the Gmail accounts of human rights activists.In a blog posting by Google’s chief […]

The odds are long, but NASA plans to begin searching Jan. 18 for the Phoenix Mars Lander, which hasn’t been heard from since it “completed five months of studying an arctic Martian site in November 2008,” the space agency said in a news release Jan. 11. “The solar-powered lander operated two months longer than its […]

A global consortium organized by Alcatel-Lucent’s Bell Labs plans to “create the technologies needed to make communications networks 1000 times more energy-efficient than they are today,” the group said in a Jan. 11 news release. The target comes from “Bell Labs’ analysis of the fundamental properties of ICT [Information and Communication Technology] networks and technologies […]

Dell Perot Systems announced Jan. 7 a five-year, $42 million agreement to provide command, control, communications, computer and information management services to the Rock Island Arsenal in Illinois. Recently acquired by Dell, Perot Systems has been providing services to the Rock Island Arsenal for the past four years. In the first four years of the […]

A three-judge federal panel appeared Jan. 8 to question the Federal Communications Commission’s legal authority in the 2008 decision that found Comcast guilty of violating the FCC’s network neutrality principles. Comcast complied with the FCC’s order to stop throttling peer-to-peer Internet traffic from BitTorrent but in September 2008 appealed the decision.The U.S. Court of Appeals […]

Two U.S. Congressmen joined Jan. 7 in opposing the proposed deal between Verizon and Frontier Communications in which Verizon would sell 4.8 million rural phone lines in 14 states to Frontier. Reps. Paul Hodes of New Hampshire and Alan Mollohan of West Virginia said the $8.6 million all-stock deal would saddle Frontier with more than […]