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Petition to legalize unlocking reaches 100K signatures, warrants White House response

Petition to legalize unlocking reaches 100K signatures, warrants White House response
  • Posted February 21, 2013, 11:42 AM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Mobile Computing, The Web
  • With over 100,000 signatures (and counting), an open petition asking the White House to legalize unlocking cell phones could elicit an official response from the Obama administration. Currently, 100,000 signatures within the first month of a petition's life is the…

Unlocking your mobile phone will become a crime starting Saturday

Unlocking your mobile phone will become a crime starting Saturday
  • Posted January 25, 2013, 7:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
  • If you’ve been on the fence about whether or not to unlock your smartphone, you might want to hurry up and make a decision one way or another. That’s because starting January 26 (this Saturday), the process will become illegal…

Judge rules IP addresses aren't enough to incriminate pirates

Judge rules IP addresses aren
  • Posted May 4, 2012, 2:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web
  • Judge Gary Brown, a federally-appointed magistrate judge of the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of New York, recently ruled that an IP address is no more able to identify wrong-doers than a telephone number can be used to…

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