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<title><![CDATA[Sprint to phase out iDEN in 2013]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 08:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Almost six years after it acquired Nextel for $35 billion, Sprint today announced that it was finally phasing out Nextel's iDEN technology starting in 2013. The news isn't surprising in the least--indeed, Sprint has floated the idea several times since 2005--but this is the first time we have a real timeline for putting iDEN out to pasture.The iDEN news came as part of a lengthy press release promoting a massive network upgrade called &quot;Network Vision.&quot; Currently, the carrier uses separate base stations to handle its 800MHz and 1,900GHz CDMA bands and 2.5GHz WiMax band, but the initiative promises new equipment that can handle all spectrum bands simultaneously. Among the promised benefits are enhanced voice quality and data speeds, lower cost, and a smaller carbon footprint. Also, because Sprint plans to increase CDMA coverage on the 800Mhz band, indoor coverage could increase (lower frequency bands have greater building penetration).Sprint will partner with Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, and Samsung to deploy the new equipment with each company taking a different part of the country. Deployment will begin next year and should be completed by 2016. Though Network Vision is expected to cost between $4 billion and $5 billion, Sprint estimates that cost savings from capital efficiencies, cheaper roaming expenses, and a reduction in total cell sites could total $11 billion.To replace push-to-talk (PTT) services on iDEN, Sprint says it will launch new services on CDMA some time next year. Though Sprint promises that the new network will be followed by a &quot;a competitively priced lineup of rugged handsets and smartphones,&quot; the carrier has struggled to integrate Nextel's Direct Connect PTT services following the merger. After ditching its own CDMA-based ReadyLink PTT service after the acquisition, Sprint first tried offering dual-mode CDMA/IDEN handsets like the Motorola iC902. It then melded the two technologies together in its QChat series, but after those handsets also failed to catch on QChat was discontinued as well.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Verizon quietly launches Motorola Droid 2 Global]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 08:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>kinggaaann</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[The Motorola Droid 2 Global(Credit:Verizon)After weeks of speculation, the Motorola Droid 2 Global is available today to Verizon Wireless customers. As expected, the Droid 2 Global features a 1.2GHz processor and runs Android 2.2 (Froyo). It has a 3.7-inch display, slide-out QWERTY keyboard, and comes in either white or black. It features 8GB of internal memory and an 8GB preinstalled microSD card. But it's the device's ability to work around the world that will attract customers. According to Verizon, it boasts &quot;Quad Band GSM capabilities to make and receive calls, check e-mail, and more from over 200 countries.&quot; Motorola's Droid 2 Global sells for $199.99 after a mail-in rebate with a two-year contract. Last month, many of the Droid 2 Global's specs leaked on the Web. Last week, reports surfaced claiming the Droid 2 Global would be made available to Verizon customers on November 11. The only detail that was wrong along the way was that release date. The launch of the Droid 2 Global comes on the heels of Verizon's announcement yesterday that it will offer the Motorola Droid Pro for preorder starting today. Like the Droid 2 Global, the Droid Pro can place calls and access data networks around the world. Unlike the Droid 2 Global's slide-out keyboard, the Droid Pro has a keyboard built in below the screen. The Droid Pro retails for $179.99 after a mail-in rebate with a two-year contract. It will be available for purchase November 18.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Hell No, There Will Never Be A TechCrunch&nbsp'Canada]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>kinggaaann</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Every once in a while we like to post a reader email (or a PR email) and respond directly here on TechCrunch. This week&amp;'s email comes to us from Kevin, who lives somewhere in Canada.Hello TechCrunch,I was just thinking that Canada needs a technology news outlet and saw that you have set up operations in Japan and Europe (including France). I would love to see a TechCrunch Canada.  Although we are neighbours to the U.S. Our technology scene is very distinct.  At the centre of Canada&amp;'s tech sector is Ontario where Ottawa, aka Silicon Valley North, is an international tech R&amp;amp'D site and Waterloo is the headquarters of Research In Motion.  Between Ottawa, Waterloo and Toronto there is a pretty big tech start-up scene.I&amp;'ve attached some links about Canada&amp;'s tech sector for your information:-http://www.obj.ca-http://www.ontariotechnologycorridor.com-http://www.cata.ca-http://www.ottawa.com/about/main_e.shtmlSo, no. Here&amp;'s why.First, Canada just doesn&amp;'t like us, and we can&amp;'t stop laughing at Canada.  See Canada Now Somewhat Less Anti-Startup, Canadians Unite To Fight Off The &amp;''Feared TechCrunch&amp;'', More Proof That Canada Hates The Environment and I&amp;'ll Never Let Canada Live This Down. Second, we were acquired by AOL, which stands for &amp;''America Online.&amp;'' Everyone knows &amp;''America&amp;'' technically includes Canada, I guess, but the clear intention was the United States. Third, I have lived in Ottawa and it is as cold as hell there. Ridiculously, utterly freezing. I like Tim Hortons, the Barenaked Ladies and Poutine as much as Canadians do (well, probably not). And I&amp;'m certainly a big fan of saying I&amp;'m Canadian when traveling somewhere that may not be super amenable to U.S. visitors. But I draw the line there. Canada is simply too cold for TechCrunch.Fourth, the entire population of Canada is less than the population of California, a single state. People in Idaho aren&amp;'t clamoring for TechCrunch Idaho, are they Have some dignity.Fifth, I&amp;'m pretty sure your army guys still ride horses. That&amp;'s not very technically savvy and indicates that you are all luddites.Sixth, You are actually in a territorial dispute with Denmark, the Canada of Europe (yes, I&amp;'ve also lived there), over Hans Island, a &amp;''small, uninhabited barren knoll measuring 1.3 km&amp;'' off the coast of Greenland. In one particularly passionate moment you actually engaged in a Google fight over ownership. I think you need to up the ante a little. Send the guys on horses, I say, and take that island by force from the Danes. If you do, I erase all debts and will embrace Canada with all of our TechCrunch love. And Poutine for everyone on me, ehSeventh, Celine Dion.Hope that helps clear things up Kevin. Update: http://twitter.com/!/arrington/status/1857893821317120Update 2: Thanks Danny: <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Exit41 wants you to order dinner on Facebook]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>kinggaaann</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Exit41, a company that powers the food-ordering experience for a number of big-name restaurants, just announced that it wants to make Facebook Fan Pages more useful &amp;8212' for both hungry customers and restaurants looking to measure the value of their social networking presence.Most big restaurants have built Fan Pages on Facebook, but those pages dona4a4t usually offer much in the way of features. For example, the Dominoa4a4s Pizza page includes some basic restaurant information, some promotional photos, and a coupon, but the only way to actually buy a pizza is to follow a link to the Domino&amp;'s website.With Exit41, restaurants can build food ordering into their Fan Pages. While Ia4a4ve seen food-ordering capabilities on Facebook, they&amp;'re pretty rare. Exit41 doesn&amp;'t just let you order food &amp;8212' it also offers some nice integration with the social network. Once a restaurant is up-and-running with the new service, users can just click on the a4AOrder Onlinea4 tab, where theya4a4ll be presented with an interactive menu. You can say that you a4ALikea4 a specific menu item and broadcast that message to your Facebook friends. And you can see how many other users liked a specific menu item.The experience isna4a4t perfectly tied into Facebook &amp;8212' once users select their items, they get sent to the restaurant website where they have to complete the order.As Fan Pages become more important, there are a number of tech companies offering to improve them. For example, Get Satisfaction allows companies to manage a customer support tab.Joseph Gagnon, CEO of the Andover, Mass.-based company, said one of the big advantages that Exit41 offers restaurants is a direct way to measure the payoff from their Facebook Pages. Since adding the Exit41 order feature, restaurant chain Wow Bao said its orders went up 10 percent in five weeks. The Facebook ordering feature will be a part of Exit41a4a4s standard subscription price, Gagnon added.Founded in 1999, Exit41 says it has processed more than 20 million food orders. Its investors include GrandBanks Capital and Dace Ventures.Next Story: Twitter adds instant notifications via SMS, push messages on iPhone/iPad Previous Story: Mark Zuckerberg credits games for Facebook&amp;'s rapid growthPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: online food ordering, online orderingCompanies: Exit41, Wow BaoPeople: Joseph Gagnon          Tags: online food ordering, online orderingCompanies: Exit41, Wow BaoPeople: Joseph GagnonAnthony is VentureBeat's assistant editor, as well as its reporter on media, advertising, and social networks. Before joining VentureBeat in 2008, Anthony worked at the Hollister Free Lance, where he won awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for breaking news coverage and writing. He attended Stanford University and now lives in San Francisco. Reach him at anthony@venturebeat.com. (All story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com) You can also follow Anthony on Twitter.VentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[FCC Head: The Google/Verizon Net Neutrality Proposal Slowed Us&nbsp'Down]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>kinggaaann</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Today at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, FCC head Julius Genachowski sat down with New York Magazin&amp;'s John Heilemann. One question Heilemann asked was Genachowski&amp;'s thoughts about the joint Google/Verizon net neutrality policy that they put out there in August.&amp;''I would have preferred if they didn&amp;'t do exactly what they did when they did,&amp;'' Genachowski said. &amp;''It slowed down some processes that were leading to a resolution,&amp;'' he said.That said, Genachowski did say that to the degree that two large entities formerly on opposite sides of the big issues are now coming together seems to be a good thing. He just doesn&amp;'t seem to like the exact way they did it.Immediately after the proposal was announced in August, the FCC put out the following statement:Some will claim this announcement moves the discussion forward. Thata4a4s one of its many problems. It is time to move a decision forwarda4&quot;a decision to reassert FCC authority over broadband telecommunications, to guarantee an open Internet now and forever, and to put the interests of consumers in front of the interests of giant corporations.In other words, the FCC wants actions, not more words. And the Google/Verizon proposal led to more words.Earlier this week, Google CEO Eric Schmidt spoke about this topic a bit also. There&amp;'s been a criticism that Google has turned its back on net neutrality because they&amp;'re not asking for wireless regulation. But Schmidt says that it&amp;'s more of getting what needs to be done now done (wired) and taking a wait-and-see approach with the more&amp;nbsp'competitive&amp;nbsp'wireless space.We think this gray area is still pretty frightening. And it&amp;'s good the the FCC is wary of doing anything just because two huge companies put it forward.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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