I spent a half hour speed-dialing Google’s new phone directory service, 800-GOOG-411. The verdict? Google’s speech-recognition and geo-mapping algorithms outperformed Verizon and AT&T’s humans this afternoon.
Tag: telepocalypse
Telco Interference
1 witness isn’t coming to the hearing to fret about the ad market or the dangers to consumer privacy. He’s only coming to tarnish Google at the behest of other parties. Guess which ones?
war.
Verizon Blocks Pro-Choice SMS
Another reason for telepocalypse
Phone Deadlock
The triumvirate of phone manufacturers, mobile carriers, and entertainment companies are the world’s reigning champions at shifting blame and pointing fingers. Ask Apple why it won’t let you use any song in your iTunes library as an iPhone ringtone and they’ll tell you it’s the fault of the greedy record companies.
+1. i am doing my part by not subsidizing any carrier.
After net neutrality
“full internet access available on request”. this looks telling similar to the crap people put up with for their cell phone plans
XOHM branding thoughts
I wonder if there’s real, studied, empirical reasoning behind all the branding that telcos do with their various services, or whether it’s just a sign of corporations needing something to do with all those people in the marketing department.
an industry
The $200B Rip-Off
why this is not major major news really worries me. it has been known for quite some time that by playing semantic games, over $200B were stolen. this is why telcos need some disruptive innovation happen to them, fast.
Roaming Scam
2 weeks of travel with sporadic AT&T; EDGE network usage off and on mixed with wifi when available… $3000. Doing some research, I learned this morning that AT&T; offers unlimited international data usage at $70 per month to its Blackberry customers.
who needs phones?
FCC fails at Open
The auction rules include much of what Google requested, including open devices and open applications. But open services and open networks are out, meaning third parties may not get access to the networks at fair wholesale rates. Will we see a tidal wave of innovation in the space? It’s too early to tell. The FCC hedged its bets to keep AT&T, Verizon and other incumbents happy. New players like Google may or may not participate.
weak
iPhone+AT&T Bill=Uh-Oh
6 PAGES of listings of data tidbits that the iPhone has downloaded in the form of email and Web pages–KB by KB! Every graphic on every Web page, every message sent or received–it’s all carefully listed by date and time.
such an apt image of a clueless legacy telco
Gregor J. Rothfuss 