About 630,000 counterfeit mobile phones have so far been disconnected in Tanzania, the telecom authority says.A government ban on using fake phones came into force at midnight, causing communication difficulties for those who owned them.Tanzania joined Cameroon, South Africa and Nigeria in efforts to boost security and health measures by disconnecting the phones.About 3% of mobile phones in Tanzania are fake, official figures show.The country has about 33 million mobile phone subscribers, out of an estimated population of 49 million people.Some 1.2 million fake phones are expected to be disconnected, local media reports.

Fritt fram att lägga upp musik på Spotify utan att be artisten om lov

Punkaren och före detta medlemmen i KSMB Johan Johansson stämde 2014 skivbolaget MNW för att de lagt ut bandets låtar på Spotify utan att fråga honom. Och i september gav tingsrätten honom rätt. Men fallet överklagades och i dag kom domen från Svea hovrätt.Hovrätten upphäver den tidigare domen och avslår Johan Johanssons talan. Dessutom måste han betala motparten MNW Music AB:s rättegångskostnader, från båda instanserna, totalt 420 000 kronor.

Johan Johansson har hävdat att det aldrig funnits någon överenskommelse mellan honom och skivbolaget att lägga ut musiken på Spotify, eller liknande tjänster. Skivbolaget å sin sida har fört fram att Johansson inte ensam kan driva frågan, då avtalet omfattade en grupp om fem personer. Dessutom ska han inte tillräckligt tydligt förbjudit bolaget att publicera musiken digitalt.

Following the news that the Beijing Intellectual Property Office ruled against Apple, determining the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus are too similar to the 100C phone from Shenzhen Baili, both RBC Capital Markets and Piper Jaffray weighed in with notes to investors, and neither of them expressed any concern.
RBC analyst Amit Daryanani said he expects “business as usual” for Apple in China, with “no impact” from the Beijing case. He noted that China intellectual property laws allow Apple to continue selling both the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus during the appeal phase.
In addition, if the court ultimately rules against Apple in its final decision, it will only apply in the city of Beijing — iPhone sales across the rest of China would be unaffected.
Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray is also unconcerned, and noted that Apple will likely discontinue both the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus models in September, alongside the launch of the anticipated “iPhone 7.” With the newly launched iPhone SE occupying the entry level of Apple’s lineup, he believes the two-year-old iPhone 6 series is on the way out.
“Even if the device were banned through all of China for the (September quarter), it would likely be no more than a 2-3% iPhone headwind, or a 1-2% revenue headwind, just for the September quarter,” Munster wrote.