Posts Tagged with ‘open’

For all my harping on cellular providers' ho-hum attempts to deliver quality mobile social content, I like to think I'm holding out for the real goods.  From what I can tell, Fring might just be the at the head of the mobile social platform pack. 
Fring is a free mobile platform that allows users to access social communities like Skype, MSN Messenger, GTalk, ICQ, SIP, Twitter, Yahoo! and AIM on the go via cellular devices.  For most of those [...]

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 [...]

Let’s face facts. Most peer-to-peer services today, while certainly capable of acting as intermediaries between remote parties on the Web for legal data transfers, do provide linking services for illicit means.
But some entities that rely on P2P technologies like BitTorrent are entirely valid. Vuze, a service built upon the Azureus platform, is one such example.
Yet Vuze, like others of the legal P2P variety, is being forced to contend with ISP-led bit-blocking measures. The reason, simply put, is that [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Months after Facebook opened its doors to third-party developers and effectively claimed a near majority of headline space for a good portion of the year because of it, MySpace’s CEO Chris DeWolfe and his overlord, Rupert Murdoch, stood upon the stage at the Web 2.0 Summit to announce their company’s own intentions to do the very same.
MySpace plans to make an official debut when it’s finished polishing its new platform, a point it will reach in “a couple of months.”
There’s [...]

You might not have known it, but for a while now, Yahoo! has had its own social network up and running. It’s true. It’s called Yahoo! 360, and it’s, well, not all that good. Thus it’s not very popular. Thus the general non-social impression the public has had about the company.
Yahoo! wants to change that. So it’s launched Mash, a site that promises, not unlike all other creations of its kind (the social networking kind, that is), to bring a [...]

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, open is good. Open is very good. It allows for lots of cooperation, commiseration, and, believe it or not, progression. Yes, progression. It’s true.
Unfortunately, Verizon Wireless doesn’t appear to like progression all that much.
The company has filed suit in federal court, asking that the rules the FCC is "imposing on the winner of valuable wireless airwaves to be auctioned this winter" be struck down and removed from the sales sheet, as it [...]

More Google news today, this nugget coming from the mouthpiece of the company, Eric Schmidt.
Talking in Aspen Colorado at an annual summit held by the Progress and Freedom Foundation, the Google CEO spoke for the principal of free speech and the need to open networks (presumably the wireless variety) to ensure advancement of communications. Oh, and he also made it a point to tell those in attendance that his company would “probably” bid on the 700 MHz spectrum to be [...]