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Verizon, ATandT, Other Operators Bond In Wholesale Applications Community
Explore Article eweek.com (Feb 17 2010) Americas , Congress & FCC
Verizon and AT T were just two of 24 telecommunications operators that announced their intentions to bond into an alliance known as the Wholesale Applications Community. As part of the announcement, made at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the alliance detailed how it will build an open platform for mobile applications deliverable to a large number of mobile devices, an apparent counter against a trend towards closed mobile-applications ecosystems as exemplified by Apples iPhone. - The world of mobile applications may become even more crowded over the next few months, with 24 telecommunications operators announcing at the Mobile World ...Comment on Article Mentions: Technology iPhone AT&T
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Airwide Launches Real-Time Loyalty & Profiling Solution
Explore Article ContactCenterWorld.com (Feb 16 2010) Operator Services , Congress & FCC
Barcelona, Spain – February 15, 2010 – Airwide Solutions, a provider of next generation mobile messaging infrastructure, applications and solutions today announced a Real-Time Loyalty & Profiling Solution that will enable mobile operators to drive incremental lifetime value across the subscriber base, including hard-to-reach prepaid customers.Comment on Article Mentions: Airwide Solutions
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Mobile World Congress 2010
Explore Article Tom Hume (Feb 19 2010) Congress & FCC
It's over, and with the benefit of a good nights sleep I can look back over this years Mobile World Congress, and try to draw some conclusions. Android was the big operating system story, despite announcements from Intel, Nokia and...Comment on Article Mentions: Android Nokia Intel
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Apple Rejected Google Apps Because They Were Better
Explore Article GigaOM (Sep 18 2009) Congress & FCC
Google today made public the redacted parts of its letter addressed to the Federal Communications Commission written after Apple had rejected the Google Voice application from the iPhone. The redacted portion of the filing shows that Apple did reject Google Voice and Google Latitude, a location-aware application, mostly because they were better than, or performed [...]
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Philippiens. SMS is tax goldmine
Explore Article textually.org (Sep 18 2009) SMS , Congress & FCC
Filipinos send an estimated two billion text messages a day on their mobile phones, making the Philippines the texting capital of the world. Consumers are against the proposed five-centavo tax on every SMS sent. The Straits Times reports.
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Are we paying too much for cell service?
Explore Article msnbc.msn.com (Aug 27 2009) Congress & FCC
Do Americans overpay for cellular service? Consumer-oriented organizations answered a forceful "yes" in a July federal filing with the FCC.Comment on Article Mentions: Technology
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Lawmakers Seek Google Voice Investigation
Explore Article InformationWeek (Oct 8 2009) Congress & FCC
Several members of Congress have taken AT&T's side and asked the FCC to look into Google's refusal to connect certain calls through Google Voice.Comment on Article Mentions: AT&T Google FCC
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FCC Chair's Net Neutrality Position Picks Up Support
Explore Article InformationWeek (Sep 21 2009) Congress & FCC
The eventual approval of the free flow of Web content without blocking or slowing by broadband carriers or ISPs seems assured.Comment on Article Mentions: InformationWeek Analytics
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Google Voice Tip — Switch Phones While on a Call
Explore Article jkOnTheRun (Sep 14 2009) Congress & FCC
Are you using Google Voice with more than one phone, like I am? If so, you might find this tip to be very handy. Aside from that, I think it’s totally cool and I can’t wait to actually try it! To switch phones while on a Google Voice call, you simply hit the * button [...]
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FCC About To Hit Full Strength; Senate Confirms Clyburn, Attwell Baker
Explore Article mocoNews (Jul 24 2009) Congress & FCC
President Barack Obama can’t get health care reform passed before the August recess but it looks like he will have one accomplishment: a full Federal Communications Commission. The U.S. Senate today confirmed by unanimous consent the nominations of Mignon Clyburn, a Democrat, and Meredith Attwell Baker, a Republican; the two could join the commission by next week.
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Apple Lifts the Curtain on App Store Approvals
Explore Article Technology (Aug 24 2009) Congress & FCC
Apple's response to the F.C.C. inquiry into the rejection of the Google Voice iPhone app cracked the veneer of the App Store review process.Comment on Article Mentions: iPhone AT&T App Store
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FCC Begins Google Voice Inquiry
Explore Article InformationWeek (Oct 9 2009) Congress & FCC
Responding to complaints from AT&T and members of Congress, the FCC on Friday asked Google to explain how it operates its Google Voice service.Comment on Article Mentions: AT&T FCC Thomas Claburn
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Docs Want Their Own Airwaves and Other Gems From the FCC Wireless Probe
Explore Article GigaOM (Oct 1 2009) Congress & FCC , Handset Exclusivity
So far this week, more than 15 organizations have filed their comments addressing the Federal Communications Commission inquiry about competition and innovation in the wireless industry, and they’re pretty much what one would expect. The major wireless carriers go to great lengths to tout their competitiveness and overall innovation, with Sprint dissenting a bit [...]Comment on Article Mentions: AT&T Federal Communications Commission FCC
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Verizon, AT&T Deny Collusion On Texting Prices
Explore Article InformationWeek (Jun 17 2009) SMS , Americas , Congress & FCC
A Senate antitrust subcommittee has urged the Justice Department to scrutinize any allegations of anticompetitive practices in the wireless industry.Comment on Article Mentions: AT&T Verizon Wireless
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Google Voice Rejected, Google Claims, Contradicting Apple
Explore Article InformationWeek (Sep 18 2009) Mobile Applications , Congress & FCC , Handset Exclusivity
A letter that Google sent to the FCC to explain the circumstances surrounding Apple's refusal to offer the Google Voice app for the iPhone offers a different explanation than Apple's letter.Comment on Article Mentions: iPhone AT&T InformationWeek
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