May 18, 2013

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T-Mobile USA Sued over Blocking of Text Messages – Suit Filed by EZ Texting

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Ez Texting, a New York-based company that helps businesses send marketing text messages to large numbers of people, filed the suit (PDF)  yesterday with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The company is one of those that provide the behind-the-scenes infrastructure for the type of ad that asks consumers to [...]

Even India Keeping an Eye on RIM BlackBerry Security Issues After Middle East Countries – India Gave Aug.31 Deadline to RIM

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Research In Motion’s popular BlackBerry email and instant messaging services will be shut down if the Canadian maker does not address Indian security concerns by August 31, the government said on Thursday. A DoT official, who declined to be named, told reporters that the meeting ended “inconclusively,” but refused to provide details. The ultimatum came [...]

Google Droping the Google Wave Service Due to Lack of User Interests and its Source Codes are Open Now

Google Inc. said Wednesday it is pulling the plug on its “Google Wave” collaborative messaging service due to a lack of user interest. Although the innovative Google Wave was launched with great fanfare a year ago at the company’s Google I/O conference, the company acknowledged that it had never quite caught on with the general [...]