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Microsoft Ordered To Pay Alcatel-Lucent $70 Million


Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) has been ordered to pay Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE:ALU) $70 million in a patent dispute. At one time, the patent dispute may have costed Microsoft $1.5 billion.
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Sprint Finalizing LTE Deal With Infrastructure Partners [RUMOR]


According to consulting firm Gerson Lehrman Group and GizmoFusion, Sprint has finalized an LTE deal with contracts being signed with Ericsson, Alcatel-Lucent, and Samsung. The LTE service will be rolled out over the next 2-3 years as part of the decommissioning of iDEN on the 800MHz spectrum. It is likely that Sprint is looking to partner with Clearwire or T-Mobile. [GizmoFusion via Engadget]

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Alcatel-Lucent To Pay $137 Million For Bribery


Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE:ALU) is going to be making a payment of over $137 million to settle bribery cases brought forth by U.S. authorities. The case concerns Alcatel-Lucent and its subsidiaries between the 1990s through 2006.
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Alcatel-Lucent and AT&T Software Defect Causes Slow Upload For Some Customers


AT&T has just sent out a memo about how they have detected a joint software defect with Alcatel-Lucent that is causing upload speeds to slow down. In some markets, iPhone 4 users have complained about slow upload speeds in HSPA-equipped AT&T markets. Speeds that have had over 1Mbps during the holiday weekend have noticed speeds dropping below 100kbps. However these conditions affected “less than two percent” of AT&T customers. Below is the full statement from AT&T:
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Alcatel-Lucent Buys ProgrammableWeb


Alcatel-Lucent has acquired ProgrammableWeb, a website that has a library of Web APIs used by developers for the web and mobile devices.
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