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Verizon is first on a London-based company's list of lawsuits to file (or licensing agreements to be extracted) after winning the rights to a 1999 patent for location-based search. Next up: any online service offering local search services.

Australia may make changes to its copyright laws that, according to Google, would cause the Internet to "promptly grind to a halt."

If the prospect of a two-tiered Internet system proves to enhance the quality of service of certain traffic for a fee, Google plans to hammer those abusers with antitrust actions.

A mixture of free wireless broadband connections and voice over Internet protocol applications will leave the mobile network market in the United States a smoldering unmourned wreck consigned to the scrapheap, but only in major cities.

A marketing agreement between business communications firm Avaya and SAP America will see the companies jointly market products in the customer relationship management space; meanwhile a year has passed since the start of the AMQ project, which aims to create an open messaging queuing solution.

The chief technology officer for BellSouth thinks that popular web sites should pay Internet service providers for having their traffic given priority over sites that don't pay.

Ed Whitacre, who is about to be the CEO of AT&T once SBC changes its name, thinks the likes of Google and Yahoo need to be paying him.

Tough talk came from Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez aimed at China and its burgeoning or perhaps bludgeoning piracy industry today. He said China needs to pump out the bilge our face protectionism from other countries.