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  • Nokia stash phony: Aust customs

    Australian custom officials have foiled an attempt to import a massive booty of fake Nokia goods into the country, prompting the mobile phone manufacturer to employ a local private investigation company to step up counterfeit surveillance.

  • Symantec wins US$3 million in counterfeit-ware suit

    Security software maker Symantec won a US$3 million judgment against one of America's more famous spammers after a court ruled that Maryland Internet Marketing was selling counterfeit Symantec applications.

  • Phone explodes, Nokia answers

    Nokia has responded to a story ZDNet Australia published on Wednesday in which a reader, Linda Lisica, sent in photographs showing how her battery shot out of a charging phone and exploded.

  • Burned again, Kyocera recalls more phone batteries

    Kyocera Wireless on Thursday expanded from 40,000 to 1 million the number of possibly counterfeit mobile phone batteries it began recalling in May, blaming the mushrooming impact on an allegedly renegade former battery supplier.

  • US authorities recall mobile batteries

    Verizon Wireless has recalled 50,000 cell phone batteries, some of which may be counterfeit, after reports suggesting that they may cause minor fires and injuries.

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  • Patent problems plague RFID

    A key patent holder's demand for royalties has triggered concerns that promising RFID technology could become embroiled in an intellectual-property battle.

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  • Nokia: Original batteries don't explode

    Looking to allay concerns over the safety of some of its mobile phones, Nokia cited a study that showed that earlier research on its "exploding" phones was based on samples that included counterfeit batteries.

  • Why's my mobile melting?

    Mobile phone maker Nokia warned Friday that a growing number of its handsets are being damaged by badly made or counterfeit batteries from other companies.

  • Nokia agrees to investigate handset explosion reports

    Nokia has responded to a request by Dutch consumer authorities to investigate two reports that handsets built by the company exploded, injuring their owners.

  • Scanning the Globe

    What if you could download an MP3 file, photo, or video game demo from a simple bar code printed in the newspaper? For months now, 10 million readers of a Japanese daily newspaper have done just that.

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