US Senators uneasy over possible Huawei equipment deal for Sprint
Chinese telecom giant Huawei already has a pretty big (and growing) presence in North America, having previously signed deals with regional carriers like Leap (better known by its Cricket brand) and MetroPCS -- but apparently, a bid to supply one of the Big Four with equipment is hitting a little too close to home for some legislators. A group of eight US Senators has filed a letter with the Treasury Department expressing concern over Huawei's alleged ties with everything from Saddam Hussein's Iraq to present-day Iran to China's own People's Liberation Army, saying that such a company "should not be able to do business" in the country. Of course, similar concerns ended up dooming Huawei's attempted buyout of 3Com not long ago -- and considering the political climate in US-China relations, this is the kind of lukewarm response Huawei and other major Chinese firms might need to keep dealing with as they try to grow their Western presence.
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Apple brushes off NPD’s smartphone report, says it sees ‘no signs of the competition catching up anytime soon’
Fresh off NPD's latest Mobile Phone Track report claiming that Android has leapfrogged the iPhone in US sales, Apple is commenting on the numbers -- and as you might expect, they're not exactly taking a congratulatory tone with Google. Speaking to AllThingsD 's John Paczkowski, Cupertino had this to say: "This is a very limited report on 150,000 US consumers responding to an online survey and does not account for the more than 85 million iPhone and iPod touch customers worldwide. IDC figures show that iPhone has 16.1 percent of the smartphone market and growing, far outselling Android on a worldwide basis.
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Department of Health Bans Street Vendors From Selling Seafood …
No fish, shellfish, or any food consisting of or made with an aquatic animal, as defined in Article 81, shall be prepared, stored, held for service or sold from a mobile food vending unit. The full ramifications of this are just sinking ...
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PhillyBurbs.com: State cracks down on prison cell phones
Part of the problem is a growing population of gang members in prisons "due, in significant part, to the success of our efforts to fight street gangs," said Milgram, who noted since June 2008 nearly 1200 suspected street gang members ...
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New Jersey indicts 35 inmates for possession of cell phones …
"When we take violent gang offenders off the street , they cannot be allowed to continue to direct criminal activities using contraband cell phones ," Milgram said. "This wave of cases should signal to inmates that we are disconnecting ...
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Is crime in Mobile up or down? It depends on numbers you look at …
(Press-Register/Mike Kittrell) Yellow crime scene tape surrounds an area as a Mobile police offiver photographs evidence after a shooting at Pennington Street and Rebecca Drive on Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008, in Mobile , Ala. ...
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