When T-Mobile began selling Apple’s iPhone in Germany last fall, a legal skirmish ensued, forcing the wireless carrier to sell it untethered to a contract–at $1,460, no less. T-Mobile eventually persuaded a court that the two-year contract was legal.
Now that same kind of European rule would be imported into the United States — meaning AT&T would be legally required to sell a contract-free iPhone — if a new Democratic proposal in the U.S. House of Representatives becomes law.
Sponsored by Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), a liberal congressman who serves as chairman of a House telecommunications and Internet panel, it’s similar to but somewhat more sweeping than a bill proposed in the Senate last year . His subcommittee has scheduled a hearing on the plan for Wednesday morning.
The draft legislation says every mobile provider “shall offer to consumers the opportunity to purchase subsidy-free wireless customer equipment.”
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With the kind of world that we seem to be living in, it is becoming more and more important to install a wireless alarm system in our homes. This is not only to protect our personal belongings but to protect our lives as well. Since the cases where lives are taken over simple robberies is increasing, it is vital that we take whatever steps are needed in order to make sure that we are able to live a safer home environment.
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A bill has been introduced that would require satellite receivers that can also receive AM and FM radio signals to receive HD Radio signals, as well.
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Here is the video of the debate between John Cunningham and Congressman Ed Markey. We think John holds his own well against the long time congressman.
As a side note, the moderator does make a mistake in the beginning about John’s presidential vote and John corrects it later on.
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At the SMX West conference today, Yahoo is making a big deal of its new open search initiative. This program, not yet live, will allow site publishers to influence the way the Yahoo search engine displays results for their sites.
The idea is to get structured data into search results. For example, if you search for product, and one of the results is a CNET review, open search will know that CNET reviews contain numerical ratings and will display that number in an easy-to-read format. ... more
Apple is betting that the iPhone’s breakthrough in the way we interact with mobile phones will transfer over to notebooks.
The new MacBook Pros and MacBooks introduced Tuesday aren’t all that much different from the ones that were on sale yesterday. Sure, they’ve got Intel’s new Penryn chips , and more potent configurations, but for the most part, it’s the same laptop. That is, with one notable exception.
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It’s not a software development kit, but there is something new today for iPhone owners.
Apple released OS X firmware update 1.1.4 Tuesday for the iPhone, saying little about the new features. The last update, 1.1.3 , introduced a few new capabilities such as the ability to customize the home page, but the only thing noted as new in 1.1.4 are “bug fixes,” which are probably welcome.
A new firmware update for the iPhone is out with bug fixes, according to Apple.
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