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Microsoft Sues US Customs For Allowing Imports of Banned Motorola Phones
SmartAboutThings writes "Microsoft filed a lawsuit on Friday accusing the United States Customs of secretly meeting with Google representatives to allow imports of Motorola devices that are infringing on Microsoft's ActiveSync technology and therefore should be banned." The article lists 18 (older) Android devices that are named in the complaint; Xoom owners just got some street cred.
how did they find out?
From a Bloomberg article: 'U.S. Customs and Border Protection, after having secret meetings with Google, continued to let the Motorola Mobility mobile phones enter the country even though Google has done nothing to remove the feature at the heart of the ITC case, Microsoft said in the complaint. The case illustrates what Lexmark International Inc. (LXK) and Lutron Electronics Co. in May called an “increasingly ineffective and unpredictable enforcement” of import bans imposed by the trade agency.'
Employing bureaucratic shortcuts is apparently alive and well. Does this point to corruption, or is it simply a matter of poor information flow?
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I guess Google's backing of James Imhofe paid off. And who is Microsoft to complain about secret meetings with government officials?
I like this tough old POS better every day. Been swimming with it. Blown metal chips off it with compressed air. It won't die.
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I have never done any of this, but you have to wonder if this is a home goal twinned with what should be an antitrust case. Google have dropped activesync.http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2413283,00.asp (Anyone else forgot how pro Microsoft PCmag was)
The most ironic part of this Windows Phone users used to get gmail messages instantaneously...and now they don't...like Windows Phone was not already second class technology.
Technology(sic) like this should be used to give additional benefits to Microsoft Users not used to attack competing companies(and its own customers) in markets where...lets be honest its product continues to fail after 3 years (I remember when they had 10% of the smart-phone market)
Trying to Bullying companies as large...rich...popular...successful...like...Google is just stupid(Apple have behind closed doors agreement). Insane when their product occupies 75% of the market and yours occupies 3%.
The bottom line is even if these product were banned...Windows Phone would have remained a failure, not its a little more likely to continue to be.
...that I can sue the border agency, or the U.S. customs agency for allowing cocain across the border, into my country?
You should have sued them for allowing guns to flow the other way on purpose..
since the 80s. It always amazes me when people are surprised that laws aren't enforced when we've been slashing the budgets of these 'evil bureaucratic' for 30 years. Funny how the bureaucratic ain't evil when he's doing something you want done, ain't it? Buddy of mine is getting screwed over in the only job he could find. Starts life as an ardent anti-bureaucratic guy until he goes looking for the labor board to seek redress and finds out there isn't one.
Sure kids. Have all the laws protecting you're rights you want. We control the purse strings, so we just won't fund enforcement.
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Just because someone doesn't voluntarily invite you to a meeting does not mean that it's secret.
I think, "United States Customs has met with Google representatives to allow imports of Motorola devices" is more accurate.
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
Giant douchebag US megacorp calls out anoother giant douchebag US megacorp for being giant douchebags. Free world doesn't care, wherever that is. Next up, the weather.
Nothing like as close. Aged PC dinosaur and convicted monopoly successfully got a new PC companies hardware products effectively banned for using patents that allow interacting with its own proprietary software. It did so by only *one* patent of nine being upheld.
This is about that ban not being upheld...and the claims of deals being done behind closed doors with of all people the US customs. So nothing like you said.
TFA fails to mention that the ITC ruling provides a 60-day review period, during which Moto posts a bond of $0.33 per device imported. That period expires Monday. So far they've not done anything wrong. They could simply stop importing those models prior to Monday, surrender the bond, and be in full compliance with the ITC order.
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
For antitrust, spying on their users, putting back doors in their software and cloud products, forcing non-Windows uers to pay the Windows tax (Even though the EULA says we don't have to have it, they put the onus on manufacturers who do not honor the refund policy, thereby conveniently denying us our rights), giving kickbacks to manufacturers, for implementing insecureboot, for providing a substandard operating system, for inhibiting competition at every turn...this is just for starters,
"SO we bide our time, waiting for a purer kick to bloom and the future is still bleak, uncertain and beautiful" -GSYBE
Hey Microsof, maybe the Motorla phones are enjoying H-1B status too! Shut-up and feel the pain!
We (US Citizens) should be claim sovreiegn immunity the next time the law comes knocking on our doors.
Python: 'And then suddenly you have a language which says "we're all stuck with whatever the whiniest coder wants".'
So Google thought maybe MS would simply forget about it and not pay any attention to whether or not the injunction was being followed? Riiiight. Shocker, now they're suing.
Are you asking for permission, or trying to hire assassins?
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after a while open source operating systems will be the less annoying choice.
. Google have dropped activesync.http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2413283,00.asp (Anyone else forgot how pro Microsoft PCmag was)
The most ironic part of this Windows Phone users used to get gmail messages instantaneously...and now they don't...like Windows Phone was not already second class technology.
Outdated news... Google has dropped nothing.
"Google Extends Windows Phone Exchange ActiveSync Support Until July"
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2414917,00.asp
Microsoft announced today that Google has agreed to delay the removal of support for Microsoft's Exchange ActiveSync protocol (Google Sync) until July.
In the meantime, Microsoft said it is working to build support for the protocols Google will be using going forward, meaning Windows Phone users will still be able to connect to Google services.
Please stop twisting facts or posting misleading stories to further your agenda. Your entire post is bunk.
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Actually, while your examples are technically correct, your reasoning is not. I have personally brought beer to the US from Canada that was not a product that is licensed to be imported into the US and had the customs guy not give one single solitary fuck. I have seen other people do the same thing with other alcohols that are not supposed to be imported to the US by license and guess what? They again did not care. In one case the guy brought like 3 fucking cases of rum from the Carribbean into one of the states with the most notoriously strict alcohol laws for importation, sale, consumption, etc. (I won't say which) and he didn't even pay duties on it because the customs people really don't care.
There are restrictions on what one can bring into the country and import into the country, but they are by far not the same. In fact many laws at the lower level for CBP specifically were passed so that individuals could bring things back from other countries (within reason) without having to be subjected to the same laws as a company doing imports. They do in fact view possession and possession with intent to sell completely different. If a person brings something into the country under the guise of personal use and then tries to sell it, that no longer falls under the responsibilities of the CBP.
The example you cite is probably for a different reason, as anything brought into the US like citrus fruits are subject to checking for certain types of pests and diseases that could seriously damage the ecosystem in the US. They also have restrictions on other things with it, but it definitely isn't just because it is somehow illegal to possess citrus fruits.