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Superstacks: How consumers trade convenience for choice
Explore GigaOM (May 14 2012) Applications
...re forced me to finally get back on board and update my credit card.) Instead I’ve spent my time on Google’s Android “superstack” and buying and keeping my content on Amazon’s “superstack.” Apple’s place in......r business exerts over its broadband access business can be a problem. That’s why companies such as AT&T, Cox and Charter are joining Comcast in implementing broadband caps. Somehow ...
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Isis mobile wallet adds AmEx cards in lead-up to launch
Explore GigaOM (May 10 2012) Mobility
Isis, the mobile payment joint venture of AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile, has added American Express cards to its wallet. The news helps build more mo......ble to use the wallet immediately when it becomes available. That’s one of the things that has held Google Wallet back. It launched with just Citibank as a partner, limiting the number of consumers who coul...
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Comment Mentions: Google AT&T American Express
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YouTube to pay for your mobile data charges? Carriers betting on it
Explore FierceWireless (May 10 2012) Applications , Business Models , IP Telephony , Mobility
NEW ORLEANS--Should content providers like Netflix and Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) pay wireless carriers so that mobile customers can visit their sites for free? Some w...... change their cost structure and business model.
And Melone isn't alone in considering this idea. AT&T's (NYSE:T) John Donovan, the company's senior executive vice president of technology and network op...
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Will Your Next Wireless Carrier be Apple?
Explore Telecompetitor (May 3 2012)
... using several mobile operators’ networks. It’s the huge handset subsidies mobile operators such as AT&T provide wireless service subscribers that’s held Apple back to this point, Bluestein said, noting t......y Summit in Barcelona. “The battleground is set, but Apple will be the first mover,” he continued. “Google will have to scramble because it lacks retail distribution, experience with subscriber services and...
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How Apple will become a mobile carrier
Explore GigaOM (May 1 2012) Mobility
... service directly to its customers, as Apple Mobile. Will domestic and global mobile operators like AT&T, Vodafone, Telefónica and others “play ball” with Apple? Many in the U.S. were surprised six years ...... will be able to manufacture handsets to its own specifications. But it won’t be nearly as easy for Google to follow Apple’s likely path. While Google has a great brand — number two in the ...
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Comment Mentions: Telefonica Vodafone Google
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Rumor Mill: Is Amazon preparing a smartphone for this year?
Explore FierceWireless (May 1 2012) Marketing
...ts devices, not on the hardware it sells. Like the Kindle Fire, which runs on a modified version of Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android platform but is focused on Amazon's cloud services, the smartphone would li......n wireless in 2011 * Wireless in the first quarter of 2012 * Sound Off: Will Nokia's Lumia 900 from AT&T be a hit? * Will today's next-generation MVNOs shake up the U ...
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Comment Mentions: Google AT&T ABI Research
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Lowenstein's View: Is the mobile M&A binge crazy or justified?
Explore FierceWireless (Apr 26 2012) Marketing , Mobility
...of companies that really matter and are doing much of the buying is relatively concentrated: Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Microsoft, eBay, Intuit, Visa, SAP, Oracle, Disney, Comcast. Many of th......n wireless in 2011 * Wireless in the first quarter of 2012 * Sound Off: Will Nokia's Lumia 900 from AT&T be a hit? * Will today's next-generation MVNOs shake up the U.S. (Read Full Article)
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Small Telcos See Wholesale Partnership as Key to the Cloud
Explore Telecompetitor (Apr 25 2012)
...s—and cloud services are among the fastest growing business services. Tier 1 and 2 carriers such as AT&T, Verizon, Cincinnati Bell, TDS and others have made a substantial investment in data center infra......ts Terremark cloud platform to other carriers and NeoNova which is taking a different approach with Google as a partner. All of these efforts demonstrate the role wholesale partnerships are beginning to pla...
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Comment Mentions: Google AT&T Cincinnati Bell
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Google Driving into the Enterprise
Explore No Jitter (Apr 25 2012)
...he carrier subsidy model, and pulled back. Like last time, the phones are unlocked and suitable for AT&T or T-Mobile. Unlike last time, Google is now providing end user support. The phone (Galaxy Nexus by Samsung) can be purchased in the Google Play store, and additional phones and tablets are expected (likely from the Motorola acquisition). ... (Read Full Article)
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Google to sell unlocked HSPA+ Galaxy Nexus for $399
Explore FierceWireless (Apr 24 2012) Marketing , Mobility
...s Schmidt: Nexus One was a successGoogle shutters Nexus One direct sales channelIs it game over for Google's direct-to-consumer Nexus One plans?Report: Google has sold only 135,000 Nexus Ones * Google to sell unlocked HSPA+ Galaxy Nexus for $399 * AT&T's margins rebound as smartphone sales top 5.5M during Q1 * After tough Q1, HTC CEO says U.S. recove...
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US Database of Stolen Cellphones to be Established
Explore blog.tmcnet.com (Apr 9 2012) IP Telephony
...his is a historic day in my opinion and I hope global quality of life improves as a result.
Tags: at&t, att, fcc, julius genachowski, t-mobile, tomtom, verizon, wsj
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Google Voice on A&7T, Verizon, T-Mobile USA?
Explore dslreports.com (Mar 26 2012)
... threatened by the idea of losing key handset functionality like voicemail control to a competitor (AT&T; at one point tried to argue Google Voice was mean to nuns) have been a little more standoffish. Now Sprint's role as the only carrier ... (Read Full Article)
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Google Might Share Revenue with Mobile Service Providers Offering Google Wallet
Explore IP Carrier (Mar 22 2012) Mobility
... seem to be getting traction by taking less complicated routes to market. There now is speculation Google might be considering sharing revenue with carriers such as Verizon Wireless and AT&T if they support Google Wallet on their devices, Bloomberg reports. That Google would be considering ways to accelerate progress is not surprising. Neither Google Wallet nor Isis have moved as fast as many had hoped would be possible. There ... (Read Full Article)
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Mobile and Untethered Trends Raise Key Questions
Explore IP Carrier (Mar 20 2012) Mobility
...ructive that, increasingly, there is talk of the extent to which “telcos” compete with the likes of Google and Apple. The European Union’s telecom regulator, for example, now is investigating whether Vodafo......s seemed an unworkable strategy. But it is not unknown. The 1985 divestiture of the Bell System had AT&T completely getting out of the access business, to focus exclusively on long distance and technology... (Read Full Article)
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Do Telcos Really Compete with Google and Apple?
Explore Thoughts on Carrier Evolution (Mar 20 2012) Applications , Mobility
...ructive that, increasingly, there is talk of the extent to which “telcos” compete with the likes of Google and Apple. The European Union’s telecom regulator, for example, now is investigating whether Vodafo......s seemed an unworkable strategy. But it is not unknown. The 1985 divestiture of the Bell System had AT&T completely getting out of the access business, to focus exclusively on long distance and technology... (Read Full Article)
Comment Mentions: Telefonica Vodafone Google
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The 7 Wireless Data Cap Losers
Explore blog.tmcnet.com (Mar 6 2012) Business Models
...formation and the more pixels you have, the more bandwidth you suck. The same is of course true for Google, Motorola, Samsung, HTC and the rest of the market. Smartphones aren’t immune to this problem eithe......rs should be very careful as their policy changes begin to change end-user behavior.
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Clearwire could sign 'large carrier' soon, pines for LTE iPhone
Explore FierceWireless (Feb 29 2012) Business Models , Mobility
...t have as strong propagation characteristics as the 700 MHz spectrum Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ) and AT&T Mobility (NYSE:T) are using to deploy LTE. Prusch declined to say if Clearwire and T-Mobile USA a......- see this AllThingsD article - see this CNET article- see this PC Magazine articleRelated Articles:Google will sell stake in Clearwire for $47M, takes loss on investmentClearwire: TD-LTE network to go live... (Read Full Article)
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DT's Obermann: The cloud will save us
Explore FierceWireless (Feb 28 2012)
...ress trade show. Obermann bemoaned increasing threats from so-called "over the top" players, like Google, Amazon and Netflix, noting that such companies don't pay to use operators' infrastructure but stil......ng to bankers about bolstering T-MobileDeutsche Telekom's European investment plans will crumble if AT&T deal failsDeutsche Telekom to cut 40% of German HQ staff DT's Obermann: The cloud will save us Febr... (Read Full Article)
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Google's Rubin: We're building a 'firewall' between Android and Motorola
Explore FierceWireless (Feb 28 2012) Marketing
...Report: Amazon to release Android-powered tablet in Q3 * Report: Apple puts iPad 2 into production; AT&T, Verizon to sell it * Google exec: Android currently not optimized for tablets Tools * Subscribe * Email * Print * Contact Autho...
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Who Wins Wallet Wars?
Explore IP Carrier (Feb 27 2012) Mobility
...t the company will equip its iPhones with payment-enabling NFC sensors and software in 2012.As with Google and its carrier partners, AT&T and Verizon will allow Apple to offer its mobile wallet to consumers who have iPhones, regardless o... (Read Full Article)
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The next generation of Wi-Fi hotspots is coming
Explore GigaOM (Feb 23 2012) Mobility
...of its Next Generation Hotspot (NGH) standard with some of the world’s biggest operators, including AT&T, China Mobile, BT, NTT DoCoMo and Orange. Encouraged by the results, the WBA on Thursday said that ......Cisco System, Ericsson (which just became an NGH fan by virtue of its BelAir Networks acquisition), Google, Intel, Ruckus Wireless, Aruba Networks and Accuris Networks.
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Apple's Cook pessimistic on making low-cost, prepaid iPhone
Explore FierceWireless (Feb 14 2012) Marketing , Mobility
...he tablet market will be innovation."
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'App Economy' has created 466,000 US jobs
Explore The Register (Feb 7 2012)
...pure" app firms such as Zynga, "app-related" jobs at companies such as Electronic Arts, Amazon, and AT&T, and app "infrastructure" jobs at Google, Apple, and Facebook. As is customary with such employment-estimation attempts, the survey also inc...
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Cable Could Prosper with Messaging Services
Explore cedmagazine.com (Feb 1 2012) Applications , Unified communications
...play that includes fixed voice, mobile voice, high-speed Internet and television, the report notes. AT&T’s U-verse provides such a bundle today, as does Verizon’s FiOS offering. According to Strategy A......tigate subscribers’ use of over-the-top (OTT) services such as Facebook Messenger, iMessage, Skype, Google, MSN and Yahoo. The latest version of RCS, known as RCS-e (“e” for enhanced), enables instant mess...
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