"The company has secured preliminary court approval for a settlement regarding early termination fees, and it may help the carrier dodge larger class-action suits." read more » DiscussBury
"Developers often put off checking in. They put it off because they don't want to affect other people too early and they don't want to get blamed for breaking the build. But this leads to other pr read more » DiscussBury
"Eclipse-oriented software developers can use the new IBM software to provide insight to their management team through detailed reporting on software code status and to offer direction into governance" writes Dana Gardner. read more » DiscussBury
Erick Schonfeld begins hawking TechCrunch50 tickets and gives an overview of some of the new judges joining the TechCrunch50 panel. read more » DiscussBury
Liz Gannes posts a great video of Cuong Do's speech at the YouTube Developer Conference. Cuong Do covers many of the gory details of YouTube's struggle to expand from an infrastructure perspective in the early days. read more » DiscussBury
The US Federal Communications Commission held hearings in June after recieving numerous complaints about early termination fees. Verizon Wireless does not admit to any wrongdoing, but has agreed to settle and $21 million will be split among the plaintiffs and cover attorney's fees. read more » 1 CommentBury
"State consumer advocates hate Verizon's plan to take the cell phone termination fee problem out of the courts and put it in the hands of the FCC...." read more » DiscussBury
"If sub-notebooks weren't so small, it would be getting very crowded in here. The second addition to the ultra-portable PC category in as many days comes from Acer and its "Aspire One."" read more » DiscussBury