Posts Tagged with ‘700mhz’

It’s January 1st, and we’re creeping ever closer to the day of the 700MHz spectrum auction, a so far widely publicized event to be orchestrated by the FCC. Some 260 or so applicants have submitted their names as participants in the process, including Google, AT&T, Qualcomm, and Alltel. Even Chevron is on the roster.
We mention this contest once more here at Profy for the fact that Forbes, a highly-regarded publication with a primarily business-centric focus, recently put forth [...]

The year is almost through. Eggnog’s running low. The once fresh-cut Douglas-firs placed inside millions of homes over the holidays are running dry and approaching their final demise. Bottles of bubbly are being prepped and placed on standby for the global celebration to happen next week for the new calendar’s arrival.
So I think it’s only fitting to follow convention here and offer up a few wise words in anticipation of suspected things to come in the wide world of Web [...]

Red Herring late last week published a speculative piece questioning Google’s candor in seeking the 700MHz spectrum to be auctioned in January. The article’s author, Cassimir Medford, pondered whether the Web giant truly does seek the “C” block it now officially claims to crave, or simply wishes to instigate a disturbance in the world of wireless communications in the US through a public showing of intent, throwing its financial weight around as a means of attaining the end [...]

We all knew the memo would come.
It’s the last day of November, and Google’s decided it fitting to top its monthly quota of announcements off with an official notice of intent to “apply to bid for wireless spectrum” in the new year.
The collective reaction from the public? Finally.
Yes, the message has been delivered not a moment too soon. And, looking at the FCC’s auction rules, just shy of the deadline. The commission has declared December 3rd, 2007 the cutoff [...]

If you’ve been following our coverage of developments surrounding the 700MHz auction to take place in January 2008, you’ll know that Google has made its interests in keeping a sizable portion of the wireless spectrum open very well known. (Open in the sense that essential freedoms for both the owner(s) and users (either in the corporate or consumer spaces) to competitively develop both localized and Web-based software solutions will be guaranteed. No strings attached. Entirely open.)
So interesting it was [...]

Google topped $700 yesterday afternoon. (As of 10:42AM EST today, it’s still there.) What a climber, eh?
And I’m sure many of you (if not all) know just why it managed to do so. It’s all because of a successive developments the company’s revealed that are just oh so chock full o’ good news.
There was the revelation delivered yesterday of plans to infiltrate get friendly with a great many social-minded Web businesses – and vice versa. And now it’s been [...]

I have to say, I expected Verizon’s dispute with the open, Google-proposed terms for the 700MHz auction (scheduled to occur in January) to stretch well into the red, but apparently the telco has already ceased its moaning and groaning. Ars Technica’s Eric Bangeman reports that “earlier this week, (Verizon) filed a motion to voluntarily dismiss the case filed last month with the Court of Appeals….”
Of course, Verizon hasn’t completely lost its money-grubbing head and suddenly gone straight and [...]

We at Profy have regularly mentioned the planned auction arranged by the FCC of the coveted 700MHz spectrum, which is to commence, according to the Commissions website, on January 16, 2008. It’s been part of numerous stories; some my own, some written by others.
Many of those pieces published here have briefs involving statements made by Google representatives (from designated spokesmen and women to the CEO himself), regarding their company’s intentions to ensure the spectrum, to whomever it eventually goes, [...]

Recognize the name Jaiku? If not, don’t fret. Lots of others are in that boat as well. I’m sure Twitter raises a flag, though, right? Okay, good. Because both businesses are pretty much synonymous with one another. In a competitive sort of way, that is.
All you really need to know about Jaiku is that it resides within the instant-messaging/social-networking camp, a particular sub-segment of world of MySpace and Facebook sorts, and counts creations like Twitter and Pownce among the populace. [...]