Electronic Commerce & Law Report Index

WARRANTIES

– iPhone, moisture exposure (N.D. Cal.), 633

WARRANTS

WEBCASTS

– Commercial licensing fees, 251; constitutionality decisions, 810
– Courtroom proceedings

See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, S 657

– High school sports tournaments, nonpublic forums (W.D. Wis.), 946
– Noncommercial licensing fees, 1479
– Notice, webcast of trial proceedings (U.S., per curiam), 85

WHOIS

See DATABASES

WIRE FRAUD

– E-mail, hacking of Palin account (E.D. Tenn.), 625; search and seizure, 626
– Software reseller discounts deemed “money or property” (9th Cir.), 1394

WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS

See also TELECOMMUNICATIONS
– Apple products

– – Changes in privacy policy questioned, 1056
– – iPhone

See iPhone, this heading

– Arbitration

See ARBITRATION

– Attorneys, risks of mobile devices as business tools, BNA Insights, 1112
– Australia, mobile advertising, BNA Insights, 1491
– Billing practices

– – Bill shock

See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, S 3872

– – Oversight urged, 1548; FCC proposed rules, 1584
– – Verizon erroneous data charges, 1549; settlement, 1663

– BlackBerry services

– – India compliance deadline, 1299; real-time access to messages, 1410
– – UAE and Saudi bans, 1233; Saudi ban avoided, 1299; UAE ban avoided, 1547

– Bluetooth licensing and standards project is not tax-exempt (9th Cir.), 1078
– Broadband spectrum

– – Adequacy for mobile broadband, 250
– – Allocation

See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, HR 3019, HR 3125

– – Free and low-cost services, 441
– – National service plan unveiled, 438
– – Reallocation, national imperative, 1628
– – Voluntary relinquishment for auction proceeds, 350
– – “White spaces,” FCC order, 1442

– Cell phone radio frequency radiation emissions (3d Cir.), 1617
– China, Google delays mobile phone launch, 141
– Class action waiver, enforceability question certified (11th Cir.), 47
– Competition

– – Data collection increase, GAO report, 1355
– – FCC scrutiny, 871; stakeholder comments, 1262

– Data collection and disclosure, carriers oppose FCC, 1090
– Data usage and smartphone adoption, industry survey, 1548
– Degradation of service post-merger (9th Cir.), 883
– Digital Millennium Copyright Act

– – Exemptions from anticircumvention prohibitions, 1173
– – “Reflashing” of prepaid devices (S.D. Fla.), 419

– Disabled access

See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, S 3304

– Early termination fees, FCC investigation, 173
– Employee policies, 774
– European Union

See EUROPEAN UNION (EU)

– FCC rulemaking expected, 1485
– Global demand, ITU report, 1627
– Google Android system

– – Confidentiality of AT&T indemnity pact (7th Cir.), 1390
– – Patent and copyright infringement (N.D. Cal.), 1286

– Growth and lower costs, UN report, 350
– iPhone

– – Antenna defects, class actions filed (D. Md., N.D. Cal.), 1094
– – AT&T contract unconscionability (N.D. Ala.), 1618
– – Prototype, sale to blog, search and seizure (Cal. Super. Ct.), 800
– – Unlocked phone, bricking and tying claims (N.D. Cal.), 1127
– – Warranties, voiding for moisture (N.D. Cal.), 633

– Location tracking

– – House hearing, 317
– – Missing subscriber, duty to provide information (10th Cir.), 831
– – Regulatory approaches, 413

– Majority of Americans use wireless, report, 1105
– Net neutrality, Google-Verizon proposal, 1292
– Notice to mobile devices, potential challenges, 109
– Paging, tax policy, 894
– Patents, Kodak suit for mobile phone imaging (W.D.N.Y.), 286
– Payments with smartphones, 727
– Radio, performance rights of musicians

See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, HR 848, S 379

– Search and seizure

See SEARCH AND SEIZURE

– Service contracts

– – Overage charges, disclosure (W.D. Okla.), 382
– – USF fees, pass-through (9th Cir.), 802

– Sling player on AT&T network, 212
– Taxation

– – Internet data plans, class settlement (N.D. Ill.), 1285
– – Moratorium proposal

See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, HR 1521

– Text messages

– – Employee right to privacy, Analysis & Perspective, 26; (U.S., rev grant), 333; (amicus brief filed), 527; (oral arg), 620; (rev and rem), 983
– – FBI-witness texts discoverable, In Brief (D.N.J.), 1871

– Third-party applications, privacy, 157
– 3G access, FCC proposed fund, 1585
– Trademarks, Nexus One denied, 487
– TRUSTe privacy micro seal program, 1526
– Wi-Fi hotspots in public federal buildings, bill introduced

See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, S 3995

WIRETAPPING

– E-mail

– – Packet switching, interception of messages (7th Cir.), 1435
– – Rerouting under cybersquatting settlement agreement (S.D. Tex.), 1536

– Flash cookie tracking (C.D. Cal.), 1317; cease use and change in industry codes, settlement, 1862
– Google Street View WiFi data collection (D. Mass., D. Or., N.D. Cal.), 884; EPIC urges FCC probe, 892; hearing re consolidation of class claims (J.P.M.L.), 1254; consolidation order (J.P.M.L.), 1351

WITNESSES AND TESTIMONY

– Experts

See EXPERT WITNESSES

– Impeachment of anonymous witnesses (W.D. Pa.), 377