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March 4, 2010

Google seeks to take China to WTO over censorship

Google is lobbying the US government to make China’s search censorship a WTO issue.
 
Two industry groups with close ties to the search giant are lobbying the US Trade Representative’s office, claiming that the censorship is an unfair barrier to trade.
 

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February 26, 2010

Cisco working on its own ultra-fast fibre network: report

Filed under: 1Gbps, Cisco, Daily News, Fixed Access, Fixed Broadband, Google, Optical Networks, Public, Shaw, U.S — fmmonteverde @ 6:06 am

Cisco has reportedly become the third company this month to begin work on an ultra-high-speed testbed fiber network.

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February 18, 2010

100 Mbps for 100m US homes: FCC plan

Filed under: 100 Mbps, Daily News, FCC, Fixed Access, Fixed Broadband, Genachowski, Public, U.S — fmmonteverde @ 6:10 am

US FCC chairman Julius Genachowski has unveiled a broadband plan aimed at delivering 100 Mbps connections to 100 million homes.
 
In a speech to the NARUC Conference in Washington Wednesday, he added that the wider goal is to enable 90% of the US population to have

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February 10, 2010

KDDI expands US footprint with $42m MVNO deals

Japanese cellco KDDI is expanding its presence in the competitive US market, announcing plans to buy controlling stakes in two US MVNOs for a total of 3.7 billion yen ($41.14m).

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Google doubles Android share of US market

Google more than doubled the market share of its Android devices in the key early-mover smartphone market of the US in the three months to end-December, according to ComScore.
 
In the fourth quarter, Google’s smartphone device share rose to 5.2%, up from 2.5% in the third quarter,

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February 9, 2010

US class action accuses Nokia of misleading investors

Filed under: Daily News, Finland, Mobile Apps and Content, Nokia, Public, U.S, mobile phones, smartphones — fmmonteverde @ 6:08 am

Finnish handset vendor Nokia claims that allegations of “securities fraud” filed against it in a US class action law suit on February 5 are “without merit.”
 
The complaint, filed in a US District Court, accuses Nokia of failing to disclose information about component supply shortages and manufacturing problems between Janua

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February 5, 2010

AT&T’s iPhone mess

In mid-December, Fake Steve Jobs, the alter ego of widely read journalist and blogger Dan Lyons, posted the following appeal to his fellow members of <

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January 25, 2010

Motorola files patent complaint against RIM

Filed under: Daily News, Mobile Apps and Content, Motorola, Public, RIM, U.S, mobile phones, smartphones — fmmonteverde @ 8:05 am

Motorola has filed a patent complaint with the US International Trade Commission (ITC) against BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion Limited (RIM).

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January 14, 2010

Google Nexus One smartphone no threat to wireless business model

Although Google is selling its much-anticipated Nexus One smartphone directly to consumers, the tactic is unlikely to break up the wireless business model of carrier-device monogamy in the US.
 
"Operators, whether Google wants to admit it or not … have control in the US, and they probably will for some time," said Allen Nogee, principal analyst at In

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December 18, 2009

Qwest uses transport expertise to stake OTT, cloud computing claims

Qwest has always relished its reputation as the rough-and-tumble rebel of the telecom transport market. Its rugged individualistic self-image goes back to its first incarnation as US West, the Bell company freed from AT&T in 1984, then acquired by a long-distance upstart to form Qwest.

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