French said RIM is paying Ericsson royalties on the sales of any devices using their patents. The deal also lets Ericsson build future devices using some of RIM's patents, such as those for routing e-mails through mobile and landline telephone networks, French said. News.com's Richard Shim contributed to this report. Research In Motion files a patent infringement lawsuit against Good Technology, accusing the handheld start-up of violating its intellectual property rights. Good makes software that is similar to the software that runs on RIM's handheld devices and can send and receive e-mail over wireless networks. The company tried to pre-empt RIM's patent claims by filing suit against RIM last month. That suit asked a U.S. District Court in California to declare RIM's patent on a technology called "single unified e-mail" invalid, or to declare that Good is not violating the patent.

CNET también está disponible en español, Don't show this again, The Federal Communications Commission gave wireless carriers until June 30 to make it possible for the hearing impaired to use a cell phone and a TTY, The carriers will be subject to disciplinary action if they miss the deadline; the commission will determine fines, On Wednesday, Sprint PCS said it has queen starring of mandala-gold sunflower i iphone case begun offering that capability, free of charge, on its network, Representatives for three other wireless carriers--AT&T Wireless, Verizon Wireless and Cingular Wireless--all expressed confidence Wednesday that they would meet the upcoming deadline, Other carriers could not be immediately reached for comment..

"We're actually a little bit ahead of the game," said Amy Schiska, a Sprint PCS spokeswoman. To use the Sprint PCS service, the hearing impaired have to buy special phones. The Sprint PCS lineup includes a half-dozen phones ranging in price from $100 to $300, according to a Sprint PCS spokesman. They will also have to buy mobile versions of a TTY, the spokesman said. Judy Harkins, professor of communication studies at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., said the technology needed to meet the mandate breaks up the TTY signals into ones the digital networks can understand. Once the signals travel across the cellular carriers' networks, they are "unmasked" and returned to the signals the TTY can understand, she said.

Many hearing-impaired people use some form of wireless device capable of sending and receiving text, such as Research In Motion pagers, But they have proven to be a less-than-adequate substitute, Harkins said, particularly when trying to reach emergency services such as police or fire personnel, "Pagers can't call queen starring of mandala-gold sunflower i iphone case 911," she said, Sprint is one of the first wireless carriers to meet a deadline to bridge the divide that has been keeping most hearing-impaired people from using cell phones, Hearing-impaired people use devices called TTYs, or tele-typewriters, to make and receive calls on their home phones, The conversations are similar to the millions of exchanges that take place every day between users of instant messaging applications, The letters typed into the machine are turned into electrical signals, When the signals reach their destination, they are converted back into letters, which appear on a display screen..

CNET también está disponible en español. Don't show this again. AT&T Wireless will pay $100,000 to federal regulators for missing a recent deadline to make it possible for emergency call center operators to locate cell phones dialing 9-1-1, the Federal Communications Commission said. Almost all wireless carriers missed the October deadline to begin adding this E911 technology to their networks. Cingular Wireless and AT&T Wireless so far have been the only two carriers that the FCC began enforcement hearings against. Cingular Wireless reached a similar deal in May.