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Government exempt from early termination fees

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2008-06-12 18:00:00 by Doug Aamoth in CrunchGear
...government is above paying early termination fees. Im not going to sit here flailing my arms around and pounding my fists on my desk, because Im sure that every single government agent with a state-issued cell phone is walking around with a Nokia 6110 with duct tape over the battery cover. Ha! Because the government is slow to adopt change,...
 
Tags: termination fees, fees, government, single government agent, cell phone, plans, cell phone companies, special plans, sprint-nextel
 
 
 
 
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Sprint Nextel fogives early termination fee for government subscribers

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2008-06-16 18:22:04 by Will Park in IntoMobile
...government-users Government employees would "never, never accept such penalty amounts," according to Nextel's then-VP Scott Wiener. And, so, Sprint Nextel has nixed the dreaded ETF for any subscriber toiling away at their bureaucratic government job in some in some nondescript with no windows Unfortunately, while Sprint seems to think that...
 
Tags: sprint, nextel, sprint nextel, sprint cuts ties, etf, illegal etf, sprint plans, termination fees, etfs
 
 
 
 
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Indian Blackberry network to be shut down unless RIM allows government snooping

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2008-03-12 15:13:00 by Nilay Patel in Engadget
...government is demanding that RIM either allow it to snoop on its encrypted email service (or worse, drop down to 40-bit encryption), or shut down the entire Indian Blackberry network at the end of the month. That'll cut off an estimated 400,000 subscribers, so the carriers, RIM, and government officials are due to meet and try and hammer out...
 
Tags: rim, rim complies, hope rim, email service, email, boy genius report, major disconnection anxiety, indian blackberry users, thorny international issues
 
 
 
 
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Indian Blackberry network to be shut down unless RIM allows government snooping

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2008-03-12 20:13:00 by Nilay Patel in
...government is demanding that RIM either allow it to snoop on its encrypted email service (or worse, drop down to 40-bit encryption), or shut down the entire Indian Blackberry network at the end of the month. That'll cut off an estimated 400,000 subscribers, so the carriers, RIM, and government officials are due to meet and try and hammer out...
 
Tags: rim, rim complies, hope rim, email service, email, boy genius report, major disconnection anxiety, indian blackberry users, thorny international issues
 
 
 
 
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SanDisk Introduces Cruzer Enterprise Fips Edition, a USB Flash Drive Providing Government-Certified Security

2008-04-11 16:25:00 by Maximus in Just Another Mobile Phone Blog
 
...Government Agencies And Highly Regulated Industries MILPITAS, CALIFORNIA, SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK) introduced Cruzer Enterprise FIPS Edition, a USB flash drive with security certified by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) of the United States through its Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) program ...
 
Tags: drive, usb flash drive, replacement flash drive, flash, usb flash, sandisk, secure flash, security, sandisk corporation
 
 
 
 
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RIM allows Indian government to snoop on BlackBerry emails

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2008-05-23 19:24:12 by Will Park in IntoMobile
...government . Following on government officials' threats to ban RIM from the country if a workable network-monitoring deal wasn't worked out in a timely fashion, RIM has announced that they have come to terms with the Indian government It took a little longer than India's 15-day ultimatum , but India and RIM have agreed that RIM would be...
 
Tags: rim, ban rim, indian government, shutdown rim, indian, india, india threatens, blackberry push email, blackberry service
 
 
 
 
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Government rules it's legal for government to spy on those not in government

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2008-06-20 13:43:21 by Joel Johnson in Boing Boing Gadgets
...government to spy on you without any oversight whatsoever. However, under this new law, Congress has basically given the President (who ordered the wiretaps in the first place, and doesn't want these trials to go forward since they may reveal that he broke the law too) "get out of jail free" cards he can hand to each telco, saying that since...
 
Tags: law, congress, legal, american congress, avoid trials, telecom immunity techdirt, mike masnick reports, telco, trials
 
 
 
 
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Government rules it's legal for government to spy on those not in government

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2008-06-20 13:43:21 by Joel Johnson in Boing Boing Gadgets
...government to spy on you without any oversight whatsoever. However, under this new law, Congress has basically given the President (who ordered the wiretaps in the first place, and doesn't want these trials to go forward since they may reveal that he broke the law too) "get out of jail free" cards he can hand to each telco, saying that since...
 
Tags: law, congress, legal, american congress, avoid trials, telecom immunity techdirt, mike masnick reports, telco, trials
 
 
 
 
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Nokia, the NRW Government and the City of Bochum to create a "Growth for Bochum" program

2008-07-03 16:33:00 by Maximus in Just Another Mobile Phone Blog
 
...Government and City of Bochum to find ways to support employees and Bochum's future growth both during and after the difficult process of closing the factory. We are pleased to now announce this important milestone," said Nokia Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President Rick Simonson This agreement with the NRW Government and the...
 
Tags: bochum, nokia, bochum mayor, bochum aims, bochum university, bochum region, nrw, nrw government, bochum jointly