Telecommunications

• Griffon subsidiary receives $7 million Navy work
  AP (November 23, 2009)
  FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) - A subsidiary of Griffon Corp., a communications and electronic information business, said Monday it has received a $6.9 million contract to manufacture communications support systems for U.S. Navy helicopters.
   
  
• NY's top court rejects prison phone rate refunds
  AP (November 23, 2009)
  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York's highest court ruled Monday that families forced to pay high phone rates to talk to relatives in state prison won't receive refunds for the cost.
   
  
• Motorola, Research in Motion sued over voicemail
  AP (November 23, 2009)
  NEW YORK (AP) - Patent holding company Klausner Technologies Inc. on Monday said it's suing Motorola Inc. and the maker of BlackBerry smartphones for allegedly violating its patent for visual voicemail.
   
  
• US charges firms defrauded deaf phone fund
  AP (November 19, 2009)
  WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal prosecutors have charged more than two dozen people with scheming to steal millions from a telephone program for the deaf.
   
  
• 3 charged in Pa. with redirecting Comcast traffic
  AP (November 19, 2009)
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Federal prosecutors have charged three men with diverting traffic from the Web site of Philadelphia-based telecommunications provider Comcast Corp.
   
  
• NJ cops: Driver texting about drug deal hits biker
  AP (November 18, 2009)
  MEDFORD, N.J. (AP) - Police say a man who drove his car into a New Jersey cyclist had been sending a text message about a drug deal.
   
  
• Court Preliminarily Approves Settlement of Nationwide Class Action Lawsuit Against New Motion Inc. d/b/a Atrinsic, Inc.
  PRNewswire (November 13, 2009)
  
   
  
• Wash. pair plead not guilty to streaming sex abuse
  AP (November 10, 2009)
  SEATTLE (AP) - A couple in Washington state have pleaded not guilty to charges that they streamed their sexual abuse of a 4-year-old girl over the Internet.
   
  
• Cellcom Israel Announces Dismissal of Purported Class Action
  PRNewswire (November 09, 2009)
  
   
  
• AT&T sues Verizon over 'map for that' ads
  AP (November 03, 2009)
  ATLANTA (AP) - AT&T Inc. is suing Verizon Wireless over its competitor's "There's a Map for That" commercials.
   
  
• Judge limits runaway convert's phone, Internet use
  AP (October 27, 2009)
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - An Ohio judge on Tuesday ordered the state to supervise the telephone and Internet use of a teenage girl who says she ran away to Florida because she feared her father would harm or kill her for converting from Islam to Christianity.