The Financial Times has withdrawn its app for iPhones and iPads after a dispute with Apple over ownership of customer data. … more

Leaked documents from the US Embassy in Canberra reveal that Hollywood studios chose to go after third-largest internet provider iiNet, rather than Telstra, in a hard-fought online copyright case set to be heard for a third time by the High Court in Sydney. … more

A mobile phone communications system that doesn’t need towers is being developed at Adelaide’s Flinders University. … more

The Justice Department on Wednesday sued to block AT&T Inc.’s proposed $39 billion takeover of T-Mobile USA, a surprisingly swift move that dealt a blow to AT&T’s ambition to build the largest U.S. cellphone carrier. … more

Millions of internet users in Pakistan will be unable to send emails and messages without fear of government snooping after authorities banned the use of encryption software. … more

Two Nobel Prize winning scientists out of the U.K. have come up with a new way to use graphene, the thinnest material in the world, that could make Internet pipes feel a lot fatter. … more

Most of the nation’s state attorneys general are calling on Congress to reallocate spectrum to public safety officials for the creation of a national broadband network aimed at improving emergency communications. … more

France’s smallest telecom operator Free is challenging in court the terms of an upcoming auction to award fourth-generation mobile licences, arguing that asking for an upfront payment for them would favour deep-pocket bidders, French daily Le Figaro reported. … more

The department of telecommunications (DoT) has decided to move for cancellation of only eight licences for failure of telecom operators to meet rollout obligations, against the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (Trai’s) recommendation that 69 licences be cancelled. According to data available till August 28, 2011, only Aircel (two), Dishnet (three), Etisalat (two), and Sistema Shyam (one) were issued show-cause notices for cancellation of licences. … more

In a development that may help jailed former Telecom Minister’s A Raja’s defence in court, the telecom regulator has informed the CBI that Trai did not recommend the auction of 2G spectrum in 2007, implying that there was no loss to the exchequer in the award of licences. … more