Here's a question the FCC neglected to ask Apple (AAPL) in its inquiry into why the company rejected -- or as Apple prefers, declined to approve -- Google Voice:
Why has a free app that does essentially the same thing -- and would seem to raise the same red flags for Apple -- been sitting on the App Store for nearly 10 months?
The app is called RingCentral Mobile and not only MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 24, 2009 10:22 AM ET
The first commercially produced electric plane. Image: Yuneec International
Electrical aeronautics promises to revolutionize aircraft design.
GM has earned high praise this summer – and deservedly so – for its announcement that the forthcoming Chevy Volt electric car will get as much as much as 230 miles per gallon for in-town driving.
But while Detroit was stealing headlines on the ground, a little-known Chinese company was doing something even more incredible in MORE
Jeffrey M. O'Brien - Aug 24, 2009 6:59 AM ET
Arrington on The Charlie Rose Show. Image: TechCrunch
"A total lie." "Untrue." "Misleading." "Complete fabrication." "Way beyond misleading."
Those are some of the nicer things Michael Arrington had to say about Apple (AAPL) in his analysis of what he calls "Apple's long rambling letter to the FCC."
Arrington, for those who don't have Techmeme on their morning reading list, is the former securities lawyer and serial entrepreneur who runs TechCrunch, arguably Silicon MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 22, 2009 6:33 AM ET
Image: Apple Inc.
It took the heavy hand of the Federal Communications Commission to pry it loose, but we finally have a clearer picture of how Apple's (AAPL) App Store approval process works.
The details are contained in Apple's response to the FCC's July 31 letter of inquiry into why Google's (GOOG) Google Voice app has not been approved. AT&T's response fills 16 pages with legalese and footnotes, but the bottom MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 21, 2009 8:20 PM ET
AT&T stayed mum for weeks to protect its relationship with Apple, but thanks to prodding from the Federal Communications Commission the company is talking now. The upshot: AT&T didn't demand that Apple (AAPL) block Google Voice from the iTunes App Store, thus keeping it off of the iPhone. In fact, AT&T says it didn't even talk to Apple about it before the iPhone maker handed down the decision.
This is the MORE
Jon Fortt - Aug 21, 2009 5:24 PM ET
more about "How SAP is facing the cloud challenge", posted with vodpod
On NBC's Press: Here (airing 8/23), Fortune's Jon Fortt, TechCrunch's Sarah Lacy and host Scott McGrew chat with SAP executive board member John Schwarz. For all four video segments online now, check out video on the Press: Here website. (SAP) (IBM) (ORCL) (CRM) (MSFT)
Jon Fortt - Aug 21, 2009 4:19 PM ET
Microsoft, Yahoo and others band against Google - using familar tactics.
By Jia Lynn Yang, writer
With its friendly, helpful image and total dominance in search, Google (GOOG) makes it all look so easy. Meanwhile its enemies are just sweating harder to take it down.
There are reports today that Microsoft (MSFT), Yahoo (YHOO), Amazon (AMZN) and others are banding together to block a settlement Google made last fall with authors and publishers MORE
Aug 21, 2009 2:42 PM ET
The open source revolution may have yet to happen, but with company budgets on the line, change is in the air.
Remember about five or six years ago when the open source software movement was going to beat the stuffing out of software giants like Microsoft (MSFT), Oracle (ORCL) and Sun (JAVA)? That hasn't exactly happened.
Only one company, Red Hat (RHT) took the open source approach: Hundreds (if not thousands) of MORE
Michael V. Copeland, Senior Writer - Aug 21, 2009 10:57 AM ET
Dr. James Eason. Video clip: Bloomberg
Dr. James Eason, the surgeon who performed Steve Jobs' liver transplant earlier this year, came close to -- but did not actually confirm -- that Jobs' cancer had spread to his liver.
It was Dr. Eason who, with his patient's permission, issued a four-paragraph statement in June confirming reports that Apple's (AAPL) CEO had received a new liver. Eason, the head of transplantation at Methodist MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 21, 2009 10:09 AM ET
New online platforms like True/Slant and SnagFilms are a home for original content. Can they succeed?
Godfather: Leonsis backs AOL-bred online ventures. Photo: SnagFilms
AOL is getting some good press these days for hiring journalists such as newspaperman Carl Cannon and Walter Shapiro, a veteran of The Washington Post and Time magazine, in an effort to bolster its original content. The effort, praised in media circles for creating a MORE
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