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Oct 9, 2012

Court lets stand telecom immunity in wiretap case

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court is leaving in place a federal law that gives telecommunications companies legal immunity for helping the government with its email and telephone eavesdropping program. The justices said Tuesday they will not review a court ruling that upheld the 2008 law against challenges brought by privacy and civil liberties advocates […]

Dec 22, 2011

EarthLink celebrates $12 million investment

Atlanta-based EarthLink Inc. is investing $12 million in the next three years at its new Rochester location at Alexander Park. The commitment, which was celebrated Tuesday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony, will retain approximately 450 local jobs. Alexander Park is just part of EarthLink’s overall investment in the Western New York region, which includes the recent […]

Jul 26, 2011

PAETEC awarded federal contract

PAETEC Holding Corp. has a new five-year contract to provide voice, Internet and data services to General Services Administration of the U.S. Government. The regional and local telephony contract, according to a release ...

Nov 11, 2010

Companies yank cord on residential phone books

What's black and white and read all over? Not the white pages, which is why regulators have begun granting telecommunications companies the go-ahead to stop mass-printing residential phone books, a musty fixture of Americans' kitchen counters, refrigerator tops and junk drawers.

Jul 1, 2010

Telecommunications: New York SMSA LP v. Town of Clarkstown

U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit Telecommunications Federal Preemption New York SMSA LP v. Town of Clarkstown 09-1546-cv Appealed from the Southern District of New York Background: The parties appeal from a district court order granting the plaintiffs-appellees’ motion for summary judgment and denying the defendants-appellants’ cross-motion for summary judgment. The district court held th[...]

Sep 28, 2009

Orange you glad≠

Xerox Corp. last week announced its development of a new desktop technology that translates detailed color descriptions into computer codes to generate more accurate images. The Natural Language Color technology interprets simple instructions such as, “Make the blues a lot more vibrant,” or “Make the skin-tone colors slightly more warm[sic],” to adjust color in specific [&h[...]

Jul 27, 2009

Wary of wireless≠

BlackBerries and other wireless electronic devices, once a status symbol of lawyers and corporate execs, are now ubiquitous — and hourly workers joining the high-tech club want to be paid for time spent tapping away after hours. This month T-Mobile became the most recent employer — but not the first — to be hit with […]

Jun 22, 2009

DIY programs provide access to justice

Three new computer programs are now available to help users navigate the legal system. The DIY (Do It Yourself) document program can be used to create individualized court forms and instructions and is available through two Web sites: CourtHelp (www.nycourthelp.gov) and LawHelpNY (www.lawhelp.org/ny). The three state-wide DIY programs are the Support Modification Petition Program for […]

Nov 22, 2002

Campaign For Justice phonathon off to a grand start (10174)

On Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2002, the first night of the phonathon campaign, volunteers had tallied over $40,000 in individual pledges. With a goal of $200,000 for this year’s Campaign for Justice initiative, about 30 attorneys made a couple hundred phone calls on that evening and another 20 pitched in on Wednesday evening for the second […]

Nov 22, 2002

Campaign For Justice phonathon off to a grand start

On Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2002, the first night of the phonathon campaign, volunteers had tallied over $40,000 in individual pledges. With a goal of $200,000 for this year’s Campaign for Justice initiative, about 30 attorneys made a couple hundred phone calls on that evening and another 20 pitched in on Wednesday evening for the second […]

Aug 28, 2002

BT’s challenge to hyperlink tech. dismissed in patent infringement case

Prodigy, one of the first online browsing systems, was challenged in court by British Telecom (BT), based on BT’s claim that it has patented hyperlinking and web browsing on the Internet in a 1989 patent. The court rejected this assertion. BT asserted in its December 2000 complaint that its U.S. Patent No. 4,873,662, titled “Information […]

Aug 28, 2002

BT’s challenge to hyperlink tech. dismissed in patent infringement case (9549)

Prodigy, one of the first online browsing systems, was challenged in court by British Telecom (BT), based on BT’s claim that it has patented hyperlinking and web browsing on the Internet in a 1989 patent. The court rejected this assertion. BT asserted in its December 2000 complaint that its U.S. Patent No. 4,873,662, titled “Information […]

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