10th October 2009 Archive

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• FCC questions Google Voice's expensive call blocker

  Dials-up the pressure

  The US Federal Communications Commission wants Google to explain how its voice service application blocks costly calls to rural areas. The commission sent a letter to the Mountain View company on Friday, asking for details by October 28 on its much-discussed Google Voice web application. The query comes two weeks after telecom …

  Telecoms 10 Oct 01:29

• Europe greases US probe of IBM mainframe biz

  Notes swapped

  The European Commission is assisting the US in ramming an antitrust probe into IBM's mainframe business - but it's only helping, mind you. "We are in contact with the DoJ but it's not like there is some sort of joint investigation," an EC spokesman told Reuters Froday. The US Department of Justice has begun an investigation …

  Servers 10 Oct 01:44

• Cisco rewards bit twiddlers in router-to-server contest

  Cash for Linux-module customization

  If you're an IT shop using one of the seven million AXP routers from Cisco Systems and you have some time on your hands, then you just missed an opportunity to make some coin. Cisco has announced the winners of a contest, called Think Inside The Box, that asked bit-twiddlers and server tweakers to come up with interesting …

  Data Networking 10 Oct 02:18

• Did the FCC bribe US carriers on net neutrality?

  Spectrum growth has its price

  Debate at this week's CTIA shindig has apparently been about efficient spectrum use, but is the FCC just bribing the network operators to accept net neutrality without a fight? CTIA, the industry body running the San Diego, California, event, has laid its cards on the table - it reckons that mobile telecommunications needs …

  Networks 10 Oct 02:26