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USAToday's Leslie Cauley reports that as long as two years ago, Apple and Steve Jobs held initial discussions with Verizon about the carrier becoming exclusive distributor for the then-envisioned iPhone.
If so, we would have seen Verizon's logo all over the ad at the top, not Cingular's.
Didn't happen.
Verizon reportedly balked, because they wanted a degree of [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on January 30th, 2007 with no comments.
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OK, what's that?Internet marketing research firm Nielsen/NetRatings has begun to calculate what it terms "Top 25 Companies By Top Three Search Terms." Let me defog this confusing terminology for you.This list is an extension of Nielsen/NetRatings "Top 25 Companies By Sponsored Link Impressions." N/NR says: "text-based ads that often appear as a result of a keyword [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on July 26th, 2006 with no comments.
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Today's New York Times has a story (free reg.req'd to read) that notes start-up Wi-Fi Salon will place a total of 18 wireless hot spots in several New York parks.The deployments, which should be completed by the end of August, will be provided by Nokia. It will encompass Battery, Central (as shown in this pic [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on July 6th, 2006 with no comments.
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As you may have heard by now, Verizon will end its Verizon Airfone service by the end of this year.The popular explanation for this decision is that with Airfone service so expensive (up to 69 cents a minute for Verizon Wireless customers, or $4.99 a minute plus a $3.99 connection fee for non Verizon Customers), [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on June 25th, 2006 with no comments.
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The Verizon patent infringement suit against Vonage, revealed today but filed last Monday in the U.S. Appeals Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, asks the Court to:"Enter a permanent injunction, pursuant to 35 U.S.C. 283, restraining and enjoining Defendants Vonage Holdings and Vonage America and their respective officers, agents, servants, employees, attorneys, customers and [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on June 19th, 2006 with no comments.
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Already busy fielding nine shareholder class-action lawsuits related to its IPO, Vonage has just been served with a patent infringement lawsuit from Verizon units Verizon Service Corp. and Verizon Laboratories. The suit alleges that Vonage has infringed on seven VoIP-related patents held by Verizon. Vonage said in a statement it believed [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on June 19th, 2006 with no comments.
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On Monday, the Reuters news service obtained an internal Verizon memo that may indicate the company is trying to gain the financial sector as an ally against any net neutrality legislation that might advance on Capitol Hill. In the memo, Verizon's chief congressional lobbyist, Peter Davidson, said the financial services industry "better not start moaning [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on May 8th, 2006 with no comments.
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As I have already noted in a previous post, I have received a Prospectus for the sale of Vonage stock as part of its Vonage Share Customer Directed Program. The Prospectus is dated May 5. I have read the Prospectus, and have noted what Vonage says about its competitors. Since this information [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on May 8th, 2006 with no comments.
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On Wednesday, Verizon announced that it would lower the cost of its VoiceWing service from $34.95 a month to $24.95 a month. That's a tad cheaper than Vonage's most comparable, $24.99 plan. But unlike Vonage VoiceWing's activation will be free.Then just yesterday, AOL said it would launch AIM Phoneline, a free service that will let [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on May 5th, 2006 with no comments.
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My colleague Marguerite Reardon reports on a study by University of California at Berkeley economist and information systems pricing specialist Yale Braunstein that envisions big consumer savings if phone companies are allowed to compete with cable companies for television services. Like Verizon's FiosTV, for instance- which is pictured at the top and is available today [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on April 17th, 2006 with no comments.
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On his IT Facts blog, colleague Alex Moskalyuk posts a link to a Harris Interactive report entitled, "Awareness of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) on the Rise in Great Britain and in the United States.The report, which has been summarized before, asks 1,089 U.S. and 1,117 U.K. consumers 18 or over about VoIP.Noticed I said [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on April 16th, 2006 with no comments.
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David Strom is one of those relatively rare, prominent tech journalists who has the scientific credentials to further inform his work. Not only does David hold an M.S. in Operations Research from Stanford, he's written about networking and related technologies for 20 years. Among his many credits, he started Network Computing magazine, and until early [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on March 30th, 2006 with no comments.
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Guess I am on a Wi-Fi kick today.Fellow convergence blogger Om Malik has been spending time at the Kelsey Group's Drilling Down On Local (search) conference in San Jose. Yesterday, Chuck Haas, CEO of metro wireless developer MetroFi, predicted that most U.S. metro areas would have pretty complete Wi-Fi coverage within five years.Five years, huh? [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on March 27th, 2006 with no comments.
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Busy all of last week with my reporting from the Spring VON 2006 show in San Jose, I've just gotten around to reading assessments of the conference from colleagues.One of these colleagues, Marguerite Reardon, has posted a thought-provoking piece entitled "VoIP: Are We There Yet?" Marguerite makes several valid points, but I must differ with her [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on March 20th, 2006 with no comments.
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That's AT&T CEO Ed Whitacre, superimposed on a Google Earth map of territory that for the most part,will fall under his company's domain if a blockbuster acquisition of BellSouth goes through.We have lots of details here, as well as my FAQ-style explanation and vision of what is going to happen, how, and why. AT&T-which is still [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on March 5th, 2006 with no comments.
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Talk is rife with the stated wishes of telecom-based broadband Internet access providers such as AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth to impose or negotiate surcharges for high-bandwidth content and services such as VoIP.But rather than the looming battle over net neutrality that many (including yours truly) and I predict in Congress, the FCC and the Courts, [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on January 18th, 2006 with no comments.
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Well, the traditional phone companies are at it again, looking for pounds of flesh that they can extract from the feature-rich Internet-based services and sites that want carriage over their networks.Just yesterday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas (I'm there) Verizon Communications CEO Ivan Seidenberg talked of willingness to strike up deals with [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on January 6th, 2006 with no comments.
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