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Archive for March, 2008
What would you call Time Warner Telecom?
by Ed GubbinsMarch 6th, 2008
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Service providers or public service providers?
by Sarah ReedyMarch 6th, 2008
Following my recent article and column on priority text messaging, I received several emails from companies wanting to make their text messaging platforms known or suggesting alternative emergency provisions built into SMS. This included operators’ use of First Delivery Attempt (FDA), a cost-savings measure that tries to circumvent the SMS center to immediately deliver text messages, as well as companies instead focused on improving the viability of these SMS centers.
From the readers, however, rather than focusing on what service providers could do, they focused instead on what they should do. (more…)
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So much faith in an SDK
by Kevin FitchardMarch 5th, 2008
Over the next few weeks, we’re going to get our first inkling of whether all of this talk of open networks is real or just a bunch of hogwash. On Thursday, Apple will give the world its first peek at the iPhone software developer’s kit (SDK). And on May 19, Verizon Wireless will release its own open-network developer’s kit — not so much an SDK as a set of specifications that would allow third-party device makers and app developers to shoehorn their wares onto VZW’s network. (more…)
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