| Fla. gets settlement with calling card companies
13/06/2008
Residents who use prepaid calling cards can stop worrying about being cheated on their minutes.Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum announced Wednesday that the state has reached a settlement with nine calling-card companies. The companies must cease deceptive advertising practices and provide consumers all the minutes of phone time promised.McCollum says his office received hundreds of... |
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| FEMA to Develop SMS-Based Emergency Alert System in U.S.
11/06/2008
America`s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has announced plans to utilize SMS messaging technology in a forthcoming emergency alert system, mandated by the Warning Alert Response Network (WARN) Act.The nationwide SMS alert system, which has bet to be engineered, will allow authorized senders, within federal, state, and local government agencies to transmit alerts to mobile phone... |
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| AT&T Brings U-verse VoIP to Oklahoma City
11/06/2008
Telecom giant, AT&T Inc., made its U-verse VoIP service available in Oklahoma City yesterday, offering cheap, flat-rate digital telephone service to its fiber-optic customers in the area.U-verse Voice Unlimited, which offers unlimited calling within the U.S. and Canada is now available at a cost of $40/month. The U-verse Voice 1000 plan, which includes 1,000 Call Anywhere minutes within the U.S.,... |
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| Apple to Target Broader Market with 3G iPhone Device
11/06/2008
Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, unveiled a faster, cheaper version of the popular iPhone device on Monday, marking the company`s long-awaited move into the mainstream smartphone market.At $199 we can sell it to anybody, and that`s our goal, Jobs said of the 3G-enabled iPhone, set to hit the market on July 11. Apple`s target is to sell 10 million iPhone devices worldwide by the end of this year.The new... |
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| Facebook to Make Application Development Platform Open Source
30/05/2008
Social networking website, Facebook, has revealed plans to convert its year-old software development platform into an open source project.We`re working on an open source initiative that is meant to help application developers better understand Facebook Platform and more easily build applications, whether it`s by running their own test servers, building tools, or optimizing their applications,... |
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| New York City Grants Local Cable Franchise to Verizon FiOS
30/05/2008
New York City has approved a 12-year franchising deal allowing Verizon Communications to offer its FiOS television service throughout America`s most populous urban area.Up until now, most New Yorkers have had access only to their local telecom incumbent: Time Warner Cable in Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island, and western Brooklyn or Cablevision in eastern Brooklyn and the Bronx. Verizon ultimately... |
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| Supreme Court of Canada Agrees to Rush BCE Buyout Appeal
30/05/2008
Bell Canada Enterprises is doing everything in its power to speed up a legal appeal to the nation`s highest court, in hopes of reversing a lower court`s ruling blocking a $52 billion buyout of the telecom giant.BCE announced earlier this week that the Supreme Court of Canada would hear the case on June 17, and most likely issue a decision in time for a June 30 deadline. Without a favourable... |
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| Research In Motion Discusses BlackBerry Security Concerns with Indian Officials
30/05/2008
Research In Motion, the Waterloo, Ontario-based manufacturer of BlackBerry devices, is meeting with Indian officials today to discuss concerns raised by the country`s security agencies.Officials claim that the BlackBerry email service poses a possible security risk, given that communications cannot be traced or intercepted by the government. Although RIM said last week that it would look into a... |
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| UK Broadband Penetration Highest in Rural Areas, Reports Ofcom
27/05/2008
For the first time ever, households in rural Britain are more likely to have broadband than their urban and suburban counterparts, according to new stats from Ofcom, the country`s telecom regulator.59% of rural homes now have high-speed internet access, compared to 57% of urbanites. This is a very different situation from four years ago, when urban Britons were twice as likely to have... |
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| Argentina Telecom to invest US$530 Million this year
27/05/2008
expects total investment this year to reach US$530mn, the Argentine telcos fixed telephony unit marketing manager, Marcelo Ozino Caligaris, told BNamericas.The executive said 51% of the capex will be oriented to mobile telephony while the other 49% will be earmarked for fixed telephony services.Last year, Telecom Argentina invested 1.44bn pesos (US$453mn) in its different business... |
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