Verizon Reverses Decision to Block Text Messages
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Phone company decides not to block text messages on its network from an abortion rights group.
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A federal appeals court prohibited the state of Minnesota from regulating Internet-based phone calling as if it were a traditional telecommunications service.
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Saying it had the right to block "controversial or unsavory" text messages, Verizon Wireless has rejected a request from NARAL Pro-Choice America, the abortion rights group, to make Verizon's mobile network available for a text-message program.
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Verizon Wireless today announced it was granted a permanent legal injunction against a Rhode Island spammer who sent unsolicited messages to wireless phones.
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Yahoo Mail is making it easier to go back and forth between e-mail, instant messaging and text messaging - including letting people send text messages to cellphones directly from their e-mail.
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Verizon Wireless will allow an  abortion rights group to set up a text message alert system for  its subscribers, after initially refusing the request based on  what the company called an outdated policy against unwanted  messages, a spokesman said on Thursday.
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Declares 'great respect for this free flow of ideas' Verizon Wireless has reversed a decision to "reject a request from Naral Pro-Choice America, the abortion rights group, to make Verizonâs mobile network available for a text-message program"..â¦
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The Supreme Court turned away a challenge Monday to the federal do-not-call registry, ending telemarketers' bid to invoke free-speech arguments to get the popular ban on unwanted phone solicitations thrown out.
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Pressured by a lawsuit, Internet social network Facebook Inc. will adopt new measures to prevent its 58 million members from sending text messages to recycled cell phone numbers.
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Judgment calls for company accused of sending unsolicited messages to Verizon customers to pay more than $200,000 in damages.
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Google chuffed Verizon has abandoned its legal attack on new rules that would allow US consumers to attach any device and any application to a prime portion of the country's wireless spectrum.â¦
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Popular program restricting cell phone use could also hamper emergency 911 services.
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People who think their instant messages disappear after being sent should think again.
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By Michael S Rosenwald, Washington Post Staff Writer  Verizon Communications Inc.
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Verizon and Sprint have decided to eliminate or reduce a 40-cent-per-line monthly charge imposed to allow customers to transfer their phone numbers to new carriers.-The Washington Post
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MacCentral - A rule prohibiting mobile-phone spam adopted by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) earlier this month doesn't prohibit phone-to-phone text messaging, but FCC officials believe the new rule, combined with a 13-year-old law, should protect U.S. mobile phone customers against unsolicited commercial e-mail.
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Research In Motion blamed a flawed software upgrade for shutting down wireless e-mail messages to millions of its North American subscribers on Monday.