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AT&T to pay $105 million to settle mobile-phone cramming charges Microsoft looks to poach Salesforce.com customers with aggressive pricing Network World Daily News PM October 08, 2014 Hottest new network products of the week 10.06.14 Our roundup of intriguing new products from companies such as IBM and HP READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. AT&T to pay $105 million to settle mobile-phone cramming charges 2. Microsoft looks to poach Salesforce.com customers with aggressive pricing 3. Sprint's long, rocky WiMax journey will end next Nov. 6 4. No, the Windows 10 preview's keylogger will not steal your bank information 5. Eric Schmidt takes jab at Apple and Tim Cook over privacy 6. How the Hong Kong protests can impact the Internet of Things 7. After iOS 8's glitches, Apple might want to rethink its update strategy 8. Crazy dinosaur robot dances with Japanese pop group 9. Simpler back-end integration on mobile apps aim as IBM and Xamarin collaborate 10. 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AT&T to pay $105 million to settle mobile-phone cramming charges AT&T will pay US$105 million to settle complaints from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Trade Commission and 51 state-level governments that it made millions of dollars through unauthorized third-party charges on customers' mobile-phone bills.The settlement, announced Wednesday by the two agencies and 51 state attorneys general, includes $80 million for consumer refunds and $25 million in penalties, the agencies said. AT&T knew of potential problems with premium text-messaging services for years and sought in 2011 to reassure third-party billers by saying it would limit refunds to two months, FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez said during a press conference.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Microsoft looks to poach Salesforce.com customers with aggressive pricing Microsoft has created an aggressively priced CRM Online product bundle that includes both Office 365 and its Power BI tool, in a bid to steal customers away from rival Salesforce.com.The new Sales Productivity package is being offered temporarily for US$65 per user per month. That compares to Salesforce.com's Professional CRM edition, which is priced at $65 per user per month but doesn't include either an office suite or a stand-alone BI (business intelligence) product. Existing Office 365 customers can upgrade to the Sales Productivity bundle for $45 per user per month.Microsoft's offer comes just days before Salesforce.com's Dreamforce conference, where it is rumored to be announcing a new analytics cloud service. While the conference tends to attract the vendor's most committed customers and partners, Microsoft clearly wants to draw a contrast between its offering and Salesforce.com's to anyone who might be on the fence.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Sprint's long, rocky WiMax journey will end next Nov. 6 Sprint's WiMax network, launched in 2008 as the first commercial 4G system in the U.S., will finally shut down in November 2015.The country's third-largest carrier confirmed Tuesday that it will end its WiMax service on Nov. 6, 2015. It had disclosed in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing last year that WiMax would shut down by the end of 2015.Sprint deployed what was then a newly emerging technology in 2008, attempting to leapfrog its competitors with a mobile data network that would be faster than its own 3G CDMA system and those operated by the other big national carriers. WiMax launched first in Baltimore in September 2008 with advertised download speeds of 2Mbps (bits per second) to 4Mbps.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE No, the Windows 10 preview's keylogger will not steal your bank information Word hit last week that the beta for Winodws 10 had a keylogger built in and the web went nuts. Understandable, but also wrong. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Dell | Symantec Strategies for Gaining Control and Securing Mobility We are in the midst of a mobile revolution. Numbers of mobile devices are growing with some experts predicting that employees will be carrying three or more devices. Growth is not limited to just devices. As the number of enterprise apps rapidly expands, "an app for everything" is a slogan few would question. Learn More Eric Schmidt takes jab at Apple and Tim Cook over privacy Not one to ever take things lying down, former Google CEO and current Google chairman Eric Schmidt explained in a recent interview with CNN Money that Google is "far more secure" than Apple. READ MORE How the Hong Kong protests can impact the Internet of Things FireChat, the communication app of choice among Hong Kong protesters, is shedding light on mesh networking's potential benefit for the Internet of Things. READ MORE After iOS 8's glitches, Apple might want to rethink its update strategy Facebook and Android's approach to software releases isn't as fast or pervasive as Apple's, but these companies aren't at risk from a PR storm from a massive rollout of a buggy update. READ MORE Crazy dinosaur robot dances with Japanese pop group An animatronic dinosaur grooved to the sounds of Japanese pop group at the 2014 Ceatec exhibition outside Tokyo. READ MORE WEBCAST: Ping Identity BYOD – It's Not about the Device BYOD creates issues with protecting business applications and data. It is hard to protect these devices with the traditional model of IAM. Explore how modern identity protocols like OAuth & OpenID Connect enables this separation, protecting both the employee's privacy and the enterprise's data. Learn More>> Simpler back-end integration on mobile apps aim as IBM and Xamarin collaborate IBM has integrated Worklight with Xamarin's mobile development platform READ MORE Microsoft tightens integration between Outlook Web App and OneDrive for Business Microsoft wants to promote the use of OneDrive for Business among Office 365 customers, so it's building links between the work cloud storage service and Outlook Web App (OWA), the suite's browser-based email interface.Over the coming weeks, Microsoft will roll out an option in OWA's interface to attach OneDrive for Business URL links to messages, in addition to the conventional option of attaching files stored in the sender's hard drive.When email recipients click on the OneDrive for Business link, they're taken to a file hosted in Microsoft data centers, so that they and their colleagues can co-edit the document using Office Online—the browser-based version of the Office productivity apps suite—and see each other's changes.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Almost half of Android devices still have a vulnerable browser installed The percentage is much higher in some countries and lower in the U.S, security firm Lookout estimates READ MORE 10 creepy mobile apps that make spying easier READ MORE WHITE PAPER: XO Communications Clearing the Network Hurdle to Cloud Deployment Although enthusiasm is high among IT pros for cloud services, an IDG Research Quick Poll survey found that, in fact, the cloud is at a crossroads. 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