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SMS Turns 20, Marches Towards Irrelevance

The marginalization of text messaging comes from smartphones, little computer in our pockets that act a lot more like computers than phones. SMS may never fully die, but it will decrease in importance as communication channels fundamentally change.

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Communications

Email Will Never Die - The Man Who Invented It Reveals Why

Texting, instant messaging, Facebook, Twitter - we have dozens of ways to pass a message from one user to the next, and yet we keep coming back to email. Why? According to the man who sent the first one, because there’s still nothing quite like it.

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Communications

Engineers Struggle to Move Mobile Video Without Ruining It

Intel, Cisco and Verizon are pouring $3.3 million into research at five prominent universities to improve video delivery over wireless networks. The first goal of the Video Aware Wireless Networks (VAWN) program? Find a good way to measure mobile video quality.

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Why AT&T and Verizon May Love Windows Phone - But Can't Live Without the iPhone

AT&T and Verizon Wireless, the nation’s two largest wireless carriers, intend to market the heck out of Microsoft Windows Phone to prevent Apple from gaining a stranglehold on the U.S. smartphone market. But the strategy has many pitfalls, including the fact that the carriers still can’t afford to live without the iPhone. Bottom line, their…

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Communications

Is Microsoft Challenging Google on HTTP 2.0

Back in 2009, Google began an industry discussion about a prospective upgrade to HTTP protocol - the application that enables the Web over the Internet. The concept is called SPDY, and to date, conventional wisdom held that while some are skeptical of Google's motives, as a concept, SPDY was running unopposed. Maybe not any more. This week…

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Analysis

Your Boss And Your Facebook Password

The kerfuffle over employers asking for the passwords to workers' and candidates' private social media accounts just won't go away. While it's not clear exactly how widespread this practice is, lawmakers around the country are already drafting bills that would outlaw requiring facebook logins. Many people clearly find the very idea intensely creepy…

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Communications

Netflix: No, We Don't Advertise with Rush Limbaugh

Rush Limbaugh's statements against Sandra Fluke are causing Limbaugh no end of controversy and producing some blow-back for advertisers as well. There's just one problem: Some of the companies being fingered as supporters aren't signed on as sponsors for his show. Case in point, Netflix. The problem is like the old saying: A lie can be halfway…

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Communications

Did Anyone Prove AT&T + T-Mobile Would Create Jobs?

Since last August's move by the U.S. Justice Dept. to block AT&T's proposed acquisition of competing wireless carrier T-Mobile from parent Deutsche Telekom (DT), there has been renewed debate in Congress and in the public discourse over the role of government in regulating the affairs of private enterprise. Last month, policy analysts -- evidently…

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Communications

Researcher: LTE Only 1/6 as Efficient as Carriers Promised

If we're going to have an Internet full of things so that we can friend our Coke machines and our refrigerators on Facebook, wireless carriers say there needs to be more wireless spectrum available to LTE and fourth-generation technologies than there currently is. Nonsense, said a group of Citi investment analysts last month, who provided…

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Analysts: There's No Spectrum Shortage

The then-newly installed chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Julius Genachowski, said in October 2009, "We are fast entering a world where mass-market mobile devices consume thousands of megabytes each month. So we must ask: What happens when every mobile user has an iPhone, a Palm Pre, a BlackBerry Tour or whatever the next device…

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SMS Turns 20, Marches Towards Irrelevance

Email Will Never Die - The Man Who Invented It Reveals Why

Engineers Struggle to Move Mobile Video Without Ruining It

Why AT&T and Verizon May Love Windows Phone - But Can't Live Without the iPhone

Is Microsoft Challenging Google on HTTP 2.0

Your Boss And Your Facebook Password

Netflix: No, We Don't Advertise with Rush Limbaugh

Did Anyone Prove AT&T + T-Mobile Would Create Jobs?

Researcher: LTE Only 1/6 as Efficient as Carriers Promised

Analysts: There's No Spectrum Shortage