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AT&T gets feds’ OK to buy Qualcomm spectrum

For AT&T, it’s been a week of lose some, win some. The wireless carrier said late Thursday that it now has the green light from the Federal Communications Commission to acquire 700MHz licenses from Qualcomm, in a deal valued at $1.9 billion. The companies expect to complete the transaction, which was originally announced a year ago, “in the coming days,” …

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RIM’s BBM service targeted for name infringement

Research In Motion could once again face a legal fracas over the name of one of its software products. Broadcast measurement firm BBM Canada has taken offense with RIM’s use of the “BBM” shorthand moniker for its BlackBerry Messenger service, Reuters reports. That’s RIM’s software that lets BlackBerry users communicate with one another, and comes pre-installed on many of the …

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