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- AT&T offers pay-per-use PTT
AT&T's Cingular Wireless brand is adding a pay-per-use feature to its push-to-talk offering that enables users to access the service as needed at a rate of 15 cents per minute. Customers also have access to updated features including availability icons, a convert-to-cellular option and voice messaging. Telecommunications
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- Motorola makes investment in DARTdevices
Motorola's investment arm Motorola Ventures has invested an undisclosed sum in DARTdevices, which helps disparate devices interact. DARTdevices software enables wireless and wired distribution of games, applications and information. cellular-news (U.K.)
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- Distributive Networks settles unwanted-text-message suit
Distributive Networks agreed to pay individual cell-phone customers who received unwanted text messages about its Web sites as part of a federal court settlement. Carriers are working to keep a handle on unwanted messages as more companies look for ways to legitimately communicate via text messaging with willing consumers. Chicago Tribune
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USTelecom applauds bill to ban Internet tax
Yesterday, U.S. Reps. Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., and Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., introduced legislation that would make permanent the Internet-tax moratorium, set to expire Nov. 1, 2007. "If Congress were to let this important moratorium expire, the likely resulting increase in state and local taxes on Internet access would limit consumer choice, force some customers to pay more for high-speed service and could discourage broadband adoption," said USTelecom CEO Walter B. McCormick Jr.
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- Video-sharing sites look to escape YouTube's shadow
The once red-hot market for video-sharing sites has cooled considerably since Google's purchase of YouTube. Top executives have departed Revver and Guba; speculation is rife that Metacafe is for sale, and Guba's co-founder has openly courted buyers. The survivors are looking for an edge -- some feature or niche that will let them stand out in a YouTube-dominated world. Bloomberg Businessweek
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