Verizon wins injunction against text spammer
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The individual allegedly barraged Verizon customers with spam that advertised home loans and adult Web sites
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RICHMOND, Va. -- Virginia's law banning the massive distribution of junk e-mail is an unconstitutional barrier to free speech, a lawyer for a former spammer told the state's highest court Wednesday.
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EarthLink announced a legal victory in its Alabama Spam Ring lawsuit, which involved two men accused of running a spam distribution center using the company's network.
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Vonage downplays an appeals court decision affirming an earlier verdict of patent infringement on two patents owned by Verizon.
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PROVIDENCE -- A judge granted Verizon Wireless a permanent injunction against a Rhode Island man accused of sending millions of unsolicited text-message advertisements to cellphone customers in four states.
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An appeals court agreed that Vonage infringed on two Verizon patents but sent the case for retrial regarding a third patent.
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A federal judge has awarded an Internet service provider more than $1 billion in what is believed to be the largest judgment ever against spammers.
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Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ.N: Quote, Profile, Research) and Qwest Communications International Inc. (QN: Quote, Profile, Research) asked a federal appeals court Tuesday to block
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(InfoWorld) - Verizon WirelessÂ has reversed a decision to block text messages on its network from abortion rights group Naral Pro-Choice America after an outcry fromÂ net neutrality advocatesÂ and others. The controversy erupted Thursday, after a New York Times story said Verizon had rejected a request from Naral to send text messages to wireless customers who sign up for them. Verizon had said it has the right to block controversial or unsavory messages. Several other political groups, including the Republican National Committee and Amnesty International, have used text message campaigns. But Verizon backtracked on its position Thursday morning local time. "The decision to not allow text messaging on an important, though sensitive, public policy issue was incorrect, and we have fixed the process that led to this isolated incident," Verizon spokesman Jeffrey Nelson, said in a statement. "Upon learning about this situation, senior Verizon Wireless executives immediately reviewed the decision and determined it was an incorrect interpretation of a dusty internal policy." The old policy was developed before text messaging protections such as spam filters adequately protected customers from unwanted messages, Verizon said. Public Knowledge, a digital rights advocacy group, said Verizon's decision still shows the need for the U.S. Congress to pass aÂ net neutrality law, which would prohibit telecom carriers and broadband providers from blocking or slowing content from competitors or other groups. "Instant replay is not the way to guarantee the rights of Americans to communicate freely over telecommunications networks," Gigi Sohn, Public Knowledge's president, said in an e-mail. "You cannot have unfettered communications by having the telephone company review each decision whenever a controversial issue is raised. A text message like this one alerting Naral supporters to act quickly on a pending political issue is useless after hours of delay by the telephone company referees." Cynthia Brumfield, president of tech consultancy Emerging Media Dynamics, called the original Verizon action "unbelievable" in a post on her IP Democracy blog Thursday. "Verizon is seriously [messed] up if it thinks Naral is promoting an 'agenda' but the Republican National Committee is not," Brumfield wrote. "And clearly Verizon believes that a woman's right to choose is somehow 'unsavory.'" The issue goes beyond Verizon's apparent political leanings, Brumfield added. "What's truly disturbing is that Verizon is imposing its own political views on its wireless customers without their consent, something that the carrier could not do in the landline voice world," she wrote. Naral on Thursday morning was encouraging visitors to its Web site to contact Verizon about its original decision. "What kind of company would deny its customers the ability to use their cell phones to participate in our democracy?" Naral said.
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Verizon Communications won an appeals court ruling yesterday upholding most of a patent verdict over smaller rival Vonage Holdings, the second legal setback for the Internet phone company in as many days.
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A federal judge has ordered a permanent injunction against a Rhode Island man after he allegedly sent millions of unsolicited short text messages to Verizon Wireless customers.
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Four of the nation's largest online providers yesterday announced a new round of lawsuits aimed at e-mail spammers, including the first major case involving spam sent via an instant messaging service.
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Antispam activists disagree about the effect of the major federal court judgment against three spammers. Antispam activists disagree about whether a $1.08 billion judgment against three spammers in Iowa last
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- Broadband telephone services provider Vonage  Holdings Corp.  said it intends to continue its fight  against a patent infringement lawsuit filed by Verizon  Communications Inc. .
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Verizon Wireless said on Thursday it reversed an earlier refusal to allow an abortion rights advocacy group to set up a text message alert system with subscribers and changed its policy on such messaging.
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Verizon Wireless has obtained a permanent injunction blocking a Miami telemarketer from making automated calls to its customers, the cellular phone company said Thursday.
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Verizon Wireless will allow an abortion rights group to set up a text message alert system for its subscribers, after initially refusing the request based on what the company called an outdated policy against unwanted messages, a spokesman said on Thursday.