Michael York

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Verizon Limits Exculsivity Deals to Benefit Small Carriers

In a letter to Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.), Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam said today that it would let small wireless providers carry its exclusive handsets within six months and that any new exclusivity arrangement the company enters with handset makers will last no longer than six months – “for all manufacturers and all devices.”
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fonolo: Never listen to a phone menu again.

fonolo, a new service and startup based in Ontario, Canada, plans on changing the way we interact with large corporation’s phone systems. How so? They’ve developed a new technology which calls into these toll-free numbers, and in a sense, “spiders” the phone system. The system completely scans the menus and displays them in a “map” [...]