Verizon wins injunction against text spammer
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A federal judge has granted Verizon Wireless a permanent injunction in its suit against a man accused of sending unsolicited text messages to its customers.
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Dutch authorities have announced that country&#39;s first fines against spammers, including an individual and two companies who sent unsolicited e-mails and mobile telephone text messages.
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NEW YORK - Vonage Holdings Corp., the beleaguered provider of Internet-based phone service, said yesterday it has settled a patent lawsuit brought by Verizon Communications Inc. for a maximum of $120 million.
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One of the world's largest "spam" e-mail operations was served with a lawsuit on Thursday seeking several million dollars in damages for sending out misleading electronic messages over the Internet, the Texas attorney general said.
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Phone company decides not to block text messages on its network from an abortion rights group.
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Millions at stake, but for whom? A US consumer lobby group has won an appeal to sue Nextel over "text messages spam" sent to customers â three years ago.â¦
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For many online users, the idea that their Internet provider was particularly aggressive in cracking down on e-mail spam would be welcome news. But some of Verizon's 3 million high-speed Internet customers say the company is bungling the job and hurting their livelihoods.
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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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Saying it had the right to block "controversial or unsavory" text messages, Verizon Wireless has rejected a request from NARAL Pro-Choice America, the abortion rights group, to make Verizon's mobile network available for a text-message program.
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ALEXANDRIA, Virginia  - A federal jury on Wednesday began reviewing evidence in Verizon Communications Inc.'s $197 million patent infringement case against Internet phone service provider Vonage Holdings Corp..
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A federal court ruled that VoIP provider Vonage Holdings Corp. infringed on patents owned by Sprint Nextel Corp.
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A judge granted Verizon Wireless a permanent injunction against a Rhode Island man accused of sending millions of unsolicited text-message advertisements to cell phone customers in four states.
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A federal judge in New Jersey granted the injuction to Verizon Wireless, though the carrier did not get the $150,000 in damages it was seeking.
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Texas sued one of the world's largest "spam" e-mail operations on Thursday, seeking millions of dollars from two men it says are responsible for sending illegal messages on the Internet, the state's attorney general said.
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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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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.
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Who's blocking all the great e-mail from Europe? Verizon is, and its customers aren't very happy about it. The company says it's only trying to block spam, but the filters aren't working very well. By John Gartner.