In an interesting move, Silicon Valley's Mineta San Jose International Airport adds free on top of paid Wi-Fi: The authority decided to put out $90K for equipment and foot a $41K per year bill for service with 15 Mbps backhaul to handle what they believe will be 1,000 daily users. [...]

The chairman of FCC, Kevin Martin, is under the fire right away, speaking at the D conference..he is asked about how U.S. is falling behind in broadband: "You have to look at this in context: demographics, geography, complexity. There are two issues: one if penetration, the other is the speed [...]

A while back T-Mobile received a trademark on the color magenta for use in selling mobile phone services in certain markets, but it seems to be taking the trademark a little more seriously than it should, even to the point of threatening the blog Engadget for having a magenta-colored logo. [...]

Mobile advertising start-up X-tract has raised 3.5 million euros ($5.4 million) from Nordic VCs Creandum, who were joined by existing investor Eqvitec. The Helsinki-based firm says it has some 50 customers, including Nokia (NYSE: NOK), Telia Sonera and T-Mobile, who use their technology to hone their advertising on social networks. [...]

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Filed under: T-Mobile, MiscJust a day after hearing that T-Mobile lost its magenta suit against Telia, more bad news on the legal front has been handed down to the carrier. Just this week, the Supreme Court decided to reject T-Mob's appeal in a trifecta of cases "involving the legal remedies [...]