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Source: jurist.law.pitt.edu --- 15 days ago
[JURIST] Telecommunications executives told the US Senate Commerce Committee Thursday that their companies would refrain from using certain surveillance technology without users' permission but stopped short of endorsing legislation to outlaw the practice. The committee hearing to investigate the privacy practices of American Internet service providers (ISPs) focused on deep packet inspection (DPI), a technique of compiling information about users' browsing and online behavior for security and advertising purposes, generally without consent. Among the witnesses testifying was Thomas J. Tauke, Executive vice president for Verizon Communications, who said in his prepared remarks: We can commit and believe that all companies should commit to a set of best practices in the area of online behavioral advertising. The principles and best practices should apply to all online companies regardless of their technology or the platform used. ... Verizon believes that before a company captures certain Internet-usage data for targeted or customized advertising purposes, it should obtain meaningful, affirmative consent from consumers. Representatives from AT&T and Time Warner Cable also appeared before the committee. In a statement responding to the hearing, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said Congress should draft legislation specifying "what records ISPs may collect, with whom and under which circumstances they m ... Source: www.charlotte.com --- 21 days ago
Heard at the 60th annual Primetime Emmy Awards: --- "I want to thank all the people that went before us in television to make a show like this because we are just channeling it every day. We love going to work." - Matthew Weiner, creator and Executive producers of "Mad Men," accepting the award for outstanding drama series --- "'30 Rock' is available to be viewed on NBC.com, Hulu.com, iTunes, Verizon phones, United Airlines and occasionally on actual television. - Tina Fey, accepting the award for outstanding comedy series for "30 Rock." --- "I'm living proof, kids at home watching, that anybody can play the president." - Paul Giamatti, accepting award for outstanding lead actor in a miniseries or movie, for playing the second president in "John Adams." --- "They say actors are people who look good saying lines written by smarter, more clever people. And, in our show that is certainly the truth." - Alec Baldwin, accepting award for outstanding lead actor in a comedy series for "30 Rock." --- "I think we're proving that complicated, powerful, mature women are sexy in high entertainment and can carry a show." - Glenn Close, who won award for lead actress in a dramatic series for "Damages," saluting her fellow nominees. --- "We are like on Sarah Palin's bridge to nowhere, that's where we are right now. The government can't even bail us out of this. We have nothing." - Emmy co-host Howie Mandel, who noted he and his co-hosts didn't ha ...
Source: www.geek.com --- 27 days ago
Democratic Senator Herb Kohl from Wisconsin sent a letter to the top four wireless companies in the U.S. over his concerns with rising text messaging costs. Senator Kohl, serving as chairman of the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee, sent letters to the chief Executive officers and presidents of AT&T, Sprint, Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile. In his letter, [...] ... Source: www.p2pnet.net --- 15 days ago
p2pnet news view Freedom | Advertising | P2P:- DPI — deep packet inspection — in its many end various shapes is evil. Period. Mounting pressure forced US privacy pirate NebuAd to drop its DPI ad-spy application, “which relentlessly tracks people as they move around the Net,” said p2pnet recently. But Tom Tauke, Verizon Executive vice president of public [...] ... Source: network.nationalpost.com --- 5 days ago
Research In Motion Ltd. is set to launch its first touchscreen device today, the BlackBerry Storm, but while industry observers say the company finally has a marquee device to sell to consumers, it may provide little relief to curtail a free-fall of its stock amid global economic turmoil. Along with the BlackBerry Bold and Pearl Flip devices that predated it, the Storm appears to be the device RIM needs to finally sheds itself of its business image and remake itself into a consumer-orientated cellphone maker, even after watching its shares slide almost 40% since missing second-quarter earnings by one penny on Sept., 25 . “This is about a new chapter for the company entering these major markets. It’s a global story in many ways,” said RBC Capital Markets analyst Mike Abramsky. In an interview, RIM co-chief Executive Jim Balsillie said the Storm is a “marvel of engineering” that showcases a “revolutionary” touchscreen keyboard design which took almost two years of development to produce. “If you use a touchscreen, the overwhelming number one complaint is the feedback [for typing] is lifting your finger, which is unnatural,” said Mr. Balsillie. “We committed to fixing that paradox, if you will, by creating a clickable, tactile keyboard.” RIM will be launching the device with partner carriers Verizon Communications Inc. in the U.S. and Vodafone Group PLC in Europe. Mr. Balsillie said BCE Inc. and Telus Corp. will be selling the Storm ...
Source: feeds.portfolio.com --- 26 days ago
Sam Gustin writes : Buzz is building over Google's forthcoming Android powered smart-phone , from T-Mobile. Crunchgear says it's confirmed the phone will be formally announced on September 23rd, and then released for sale in mid-October. Meanwhile, in London, Google showed off pictures of a phone that looked very much like HTC's Dream, but had the branding obscured. Google's entry into the cell-phone space comes as attention is shifting toward the advertising potential of the mobile market. "We can make more money on mobile than we do on the desktop, eventually," Google chief Executive Eric Schmidt told CNBC recently. The Web titan is already the most-used search engine on mobile devices, according to a new study. And wireless giant Verizon is reportedly close to picking Google to be the default mobile search tool on its network. The question for Google is whether is can make good on Schmidt's promise -- and turn your cellphone into a moneymaker. Related Links Google Extends Web Search Lead Chrome: Why Google Fears Microsoft Google to Microsoft: Game On ... Source: weblogs.jupiterresearch.com --- 25 days ago
Nathan Myhrvold, patent troll . Millionaire Nathan Myhrvold, renowned in the computer industry as a Renaissance man, has a less lofty message for tech companies these days: Pay up...Over the past few years, the former Microsoft Corp. Executive has quietly amassed a trove of 20,000-plus patents and patent applications...In recent months Mr. Myhrvold's firm, Intellectual Ventures, has secured payments in the range of $200 million to $400 million from companies including telecom giant Verizon Communications Inc. and networking-gear maker Cisco Systems Inc., according to people familiar with the situation. Verizon, for instance, disclosed in a July filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it plans to pay as much as $350 million for patent licenses and an equity stake in a patent-holding investment fund. ...
Source: www.tvover.net --- 27 days ago
TelcoTV Conference & Expo, continues to evolve to meet the needs of the marketplace. We recognize that budgets are tight this year. That's why we've added a cost-effecitve registration option for TelcoTV 2008, November 11-13th in Anaheim, CA. Register now for an Expo Pass - it's just $149. Register here: https://www.cmpevents.com/LRTV08/a.asp?option=B The TelcoTV Expo pass lets you visit the entire Exhibit Floor, showcasing vendors from all segments of the video value chain, plus admission to the Keynotes. This year's keynotes include Eric Bruno, SVP Consumer Product Management & Development, Verizon; Mark Carpenter, President, Pannaway Networks; Mark Jung, CEO, Vudu, Inc.; Paul Scanlan, President, Co-Founder, MobiTV Inc.; Dan York, Executive Vice President, Content, AT&T and Ron Berryman, SVP and GM, Fox Interactive Media. Want access to all of TelcoTV? Including our six educational tracks covering everything from Independent Telco Issues, to MobileTV, Net Video and Marketing Challenge... Then use Promotional Code SF15 and save 20% off the VIP or Standard Conference Pass. ... Source: news.techwhack.com --- 39 days ago
Dell could get into Smartphone market someday! Dell Chief Executive Michael Dell has admitted that they cannot resist the temptation to get into the Smartphone/PDA market for long. He said: “I think you will see us with small screen devices. You’ll see us with smaller and smaller devices that have capabilities of the devices you are referring to. Not in the near-term.” He was responding to a question related to a possible device from Dell to compete with the Apple iPhone 3G. Dell has tried in the past to compete against the Apple iPod but they failed miserably. Tags: Apple iPhone 3G , Apple iPod , Dell , Hardware , Michael Dell Related posts ZyXel P-335U launched in India (0) XO Laptop to offer Windows OS option (0) WSJ: Palm Centro coming to Verizon (1) Via EPIA PX5000EG board launched (0) Turkcell to launch Apple iPhone 3G in Turkey (0) ... Source: www.hackinthebox.org --- 17 days ago
Three of the four largest ISPs (Internet service providers) in the U.S. said Thursday that they will adopt policies that require them to get meaningful permission from customers before tracking online activities. Representatives of AT&T, Time Warner Cable and Verizon told a U.S. Senate committee that they currently do not engage in behavioral advertising that uses subscribers' Web activities to deliver contextual ads. If the ISPs decide to start behavioral advertising programs, they will give customers a detailed description of the ad program and ask for permission before tracking online activities, the companies said. However, the ISPs also suggested that legislation is not now needed to protect customer privacy online. Despite a flurry of concern in recent months about some ISPs tracking subscriber activities, lawmakers should give ISPs and Web businesses time to develop a set of best practices for behavioral advertising and information collection, said Tom Tauke, Verizon's Executive vice president for public affairs, policy and communications. ... Source: TheState.com --- 33 days ago
Vodafone Group PLC, the world's biggest mobile phone provider by sales, announced a series of changes to its management and organization on Tuesday, appointing a new chief Executive for Europe and splitting its emerging markets business into two divisions. Vodafone said that Michel Combes, the current chairman and chief Executive of France's TDF Group, will join the company as chief Executive officer, Europe region. Combes will also join the Executive committee when he starts work on Oct. 1. The company added that it will reorganize its Central Europe, Africa and Asia-Pacific region into two divisions, with Central Europe and Africa comprising one division and Asia-Pacific forming the other. Vodafone said it would announce two new regional CEOs in "due course." The company also said that Verizon Wireless, its joint venture with Verizon Communications Inc., will not be part of any operating region and "in light of its financial and strategic importance" will be managed by CEO Vittorio Colao and other senior managers. ...
Source: www.wirelessandmobilenews.com --- 33 days ago
At this fall's CTIA WIRELESS I.T. & Entertainment 2008 tradeshow and conference, starts tommorrow , at Moscone West in San Francisco. The keynote stage will host a variety of industry leaders and provide attendees with new perspectives on the future of the wireless industry. On Wednesday, September 10, carrier CEOs Lowell McAdam from Verizon Wireless, Robert Dotson from T-Mobile USA and Dan Hesse from Sprint Nextel will participate in a panel discussing their plans for opening up their networks. Additional keynote speakers include Marco Boerries, Executive vice president of Connected Life at Yahoo! Inc.; Craig McCaw, chairman of Clearwire; John Stanton, founder of Trilogy Partnership; Jim Balsillie, Co-CEO of Research in Motion; and Shantanu Narayen, president and CEO of Adobe. This year's event will also feature five conference tracks on policy, mobile enterprise, entertainment, Web 2.0, and mobile marketing. Submissions were received by more than 1,000 executives for 200 speaking slots. There will be a lot of announcements and we will be writing CTIA Wireless IT & Entertianment RoudUps as usual ... Find more results for Verizon Executive on RSSMicro.com |
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Mobile Marketer is reporting that Verizon Wireless has "decided to levy a 3-cent transaction fee for every outbound SMS message sent to its subscriber base". One of the immediate questions is whether the other carriers will follow suit. For some marketers this charge is double or triple what they are currently paying. The article explains that this will affect a variety of service providers, "The rate increase will affect heavy users of legitimate outbound SMS messaging in the entertainment, retail, sports, news, weather, travel, food and political sectors. But it will also affect the mobile service providers they use to send out messages, such as SMS aggregators, providers and agencies." Verizon Wireless says this is the first increase since 2003. B. Raney, Executive director of corporate communications at Verizon Wireless said of the price increase, "Just like any business, we reassess our charges to make sure they align with our costs for providing the service and sometimes it becomes necessary to make adjustments". NYC mobile blogger Dean Collins notes , "Basically Verizon have slammed shut the SMS industry in the USA". My question is will this sms message increase affect Twitter? If it does, how will Twitter react? We know Twitter stopped offering SMS service in the UK because the costs were apparently $1,000/yr for 250 messages per week per user. ...
Reader Rob has cc'd us on the Executive Email Carpet Bomb that he launched on Verizon due to the fact that he has been unable to get them to send him a bill. Each month (for the past 3 months) Verizon has been deducting random amounts of money from his checking account, and when he asks them to send him some sort of bill (electronic or paper) they assure him they will — and then they don't. By his calculations, Verizon has overcharged him $117.68 over the last three billing cycles. Rob writes (to Verizon): Mr. Seidenberg, I've been a loyal Verizon FiOS internet customer for more than a year, but am considering canceling my account [redacted] because of ridiculous and unacceptable billing practices. Before I start, I'd like to point out that I don't get a bill for my account - neither paper nor electronic. The money is simply deducted from my bank account each month. During the six to eight phone calls I have made to Verizon over the last several months, I always request some kind of bill, and every time I am told I will receive a bill. I have never gotten one official piece of paperwork from Verizon about FiOS. My current problem started in July, when I moved to a new apartment. I was told my FiOS account would be transferred to the new apartment with zero fees. I was very specific in asking about this and was assured there would be no fees. After my account was transferred, I was billed $158.32 as a cancellation fee. I was told that ...
Verizon and AT&T have jumped head-first into the shallow end of the social networking pool. The companies will charge consumers up to $35 per year to access unpopular social networking sites , a feature they're respectively billing as "SocialLife" and "My Communities." Not part of your social life or your community: Facebook. Verizon will charge $17.88 per year for their service, a bargain compared to AT&T's $35.88 fee. Rob Hyatt, Executive director of premium content for AT&T's wireless division, said a service like "My Communities" would be helpful for novice users who are not as familiar navigating the mobile world as they are online. The new services also give much needed exposure to sites that might otherwise be overlooked, he added. Translation: We're going to overcharge ignorant people to access unpopular social networking services. To us, it's just another sad example of cellphone companies trying to beat cash out of consumers in exchange for half-baked features that kinda resembles what they want, but still manage to entirely miss the mark. We're not sure why anyone would pay to access services like AsiaAve, BlackPlanet and MiGente, Faithbase, or GLEE, when they could access more popular services through their web-enabled phones. Be social and tell us what you think in the comments. AT&T and Verizon Wireless Offer New Services for Friends [Bits] (Photo: Getty ) ...
Senate Antitrust Subcommittee Chairman Herb Kohl , D-Wis., wrote to executives of the four largest wireless telephone companies on Tuesday asking them to justify sharply rising rates for customers to send and receive text messages. The letter went to Verizon Wireless, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile, which collectively serve more than 90 percent of the nation’s cellular phone users. Since 2005, the cost for a consumer to send or receive a text message over each service increased by 100 percent, Kohl said. Text messages were commonly priced at 10 cents per message sent or received in 2005 and as of this month's end, the rate per text will have doubled to 20 cents on all four carriers. Sprint was the first carrier to increase the rate last fall and its rivals have matched the price hike. The change "does not appear to be justified by rising costs in delivering text messages," Kohl wrote. "Text messaging files are very small, as the size of text messages are generally limited to 160 characters per message, and therefore cost carriers very little to transmit." He also expressed concern that it appears each of companies has changed the price at nearly the same time with identical increases. (Photo Credit: eron_gpsfsr via Flickr) Follow the jump to read Kohl's full letter. --------------------------------------------------------- September 9, 2008 Lowell McAdam President and CEO Verizon Wireless Randall Stephenson Chief Executive Officer AT&T Dan ...
Here it is folks (although in its US Verizon livery), the Blackberry Storm. Vodafone showed it off yesterday afternoon and put a release date on it for November. RIM is making a point that its touch interface "enables easy and precise typing", following criticism of the difficulty of typing with the iPhone's on-screen keyboard. Unlike the iPhone however, the Storm has a "clickable" touchscreen, which apparently responds much more like a physical keyboard. "The BlackBerry Storm is a revolutionary touchscreen smartphone that meets both the communications and multimedia needs of customers and solves the longstanding problem associated with typing on traditional touch-screens," said Mike Lazaridis, president and co-chief Executive officer at RIM in a statement. "Consumers and business customers alike will appreciate this unique combination of a large and vibrant screen with a truly tactile touch interface." Essentially, the Storm's touch screen actually depresses ever so slightly when pressed. The user feels a gentle click when the screen is released, similar to a key on a keyboard or a button on a mouse. RIM is hoping that this clickable touchscreen will give the user a positive confirmation that they have made a selection, and should provide a more 'intuitive typing experience'. The BlackBerry Storm offers the familiar navigation keys ('phone', 'menu' and 'escape') that are common to other BlackBerry smartphones, but adds support f ...
Vodafone ( NYSE: VOD ) CEO Vittorio Colao has made his first new changes to the global network operator since the July departure of Arun Sarin. Vodafone has appointed a new chief Executive for Europe and has split its growing emerging markets unit into two divisions, the company said today. Michel Combes, currently chairman and CEO of France's TDF group, the private equity backed French operator of shared facilities and terrestrial networks in Europe, has been tapped to head up the operator's European region and will start October 1. He also joins the Executive committee. The company's emerging markets division, which lumped Central Europe, Africa, and Asia-Pacific (EMAPA) together, will now split Central Europe and Africa into one unit, and Asia-Pacific into another. Vodafone said it would announce the CEO's of the freshly minted divisions in "due course." Vodafone also said that Verizon ( NYSE: VZ ) Wireless--"in light of its financial and strategic importance" would not be part of any operating region, and would be managed by CEO Vittorio Colao as well as other senior managers ( release ). ' Our mobile application for Blackberry and other Smartphones brings you the latest headlines when you're on the go. Go here to download . ',' Social Media Deals Report: This 199-page report, filled with charts and data, examines the categories, number and size of VC and M&A deal in social media from 2007 through 2008. Visit the ContentNext Re ...
Dieter's dodging Hurricane Ike as he wings his way back from the West Coast and CTIA, so let's recap what all he brought back for the rest of us. First up was live-blogging the keynote event with the chief Executive officers of T-Mobile, Sprint and Verizon. Some good nuggets about openness in the industry and Yahoo Go. Of course, what we all couldn't wait for was for the big D to get down on the floor and get his hands on some devices. And he didn't disappoint, with videos and full photo galleries. Check in after the break for the entire rundown, in one easy-to-carry package. Best of Fall CTIA 2008 The HP 910C: This is the device that WM Experts reader Eric had to have, and he sent in a full review in July. (Thanks again!) Dieter grabbed the 910C and put it up side by side with the Treo Pro. And it's a pretty fair fight. Sprint Touch Diamond: Easily one of the most anticipated - and blogged about - U.S. releases of the year. (And it should be available any day now!)The red paint job isn't as bad as you might think, and it's not as much as a fingerprint magnet as the GSM version. HTC Touch Pro: We're still looking for this guy anytime now on Sprint and AT&T ( as the Fuze ). Dieter points out that it's not nearly the brick we made fun of reported on in the past. And just when we thought he was done with the TP (er, let's not call it that ever again), Dieter hit us again with even more photos and video . Velocity 83: The first of a ...
GM showcases production version of Chevrolet Volt US based automaker GM finally showcased their upcoming production version of electric car Chevrolet Volt. The car was showcased by the company Chairman and Chief Executive Rick Wagoner. He spoke about the Volt: “We’re reinventing the automobile.” The company is investing heavily in this model. This could help them turnaround their operations in the US market which are very troubled at this moment. GM is struggling to compete against the Japanese automakers that have tons of fuel efficient models to offer to customers in the US market. GM said that they are currently scheduled to bring the car to the market in late 2010. They would manufacture around 100 of the production models in 2009 for testing around the world. Tags: automobiles , Cars , Chevrolet , Chevrolet Volt , Electric Cars , General Motors , GM , Rick Wagoner , USA Related posts ZTE launches mobile phones in USA (1) YouTube dominates US market (0) Yahoo oneSearch now default on AT&T mobile phones (0) WSJ: Palm Centro coming to Verizon (1) Warner Music Group wants ISP Tax for music download (0) ...