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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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.

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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) ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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. ...

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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. ...

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