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NEWS ANALYSIS: Showing perhaps that they learned the lessons of last year’s net neutrality battles, the Iowa telcos and their Internet-based ‘free-calling‘ partners have formed their own ‘grassroots‘ coalition, complete with its own blog-like website to battle what they call “myths” being spread by big telcos, their opponents in the ongoing controversy.
Representatives for the Iowa [...]

While they can’t eliminate the actual conference calls themselves, the founders of a new service called Gaboogie want to help reduce the administrative headaches of setting up and conducting conference calls, starting with a feature that calls the participants directly.
If Gaboogie’s web-based setup delivers as promised and eliminates the need for lengthy passwords, pin numbers [...]

It’s an unconfirmed rumor (but we have it on very good sources) that FCC chairman Kevin Martin was in Mountain View Wednesday, touring the Googleplex and no doubt chowing down on the famous free food. Makes sense, since Martin is scheduled to speak in Silicon Valley Thursday morning. Later this week, Presidential hopeful and YouTube [...]

When we looked at the back page of Friday’s Marketplace section of the Wall Street Journal, it looked like the delivery person had perhaps taken offense with the Vonage ad campaign about its patent case with Verizon, with what looked like some black-pen editing, the kind you might see in edited government documents:
A closer look [...]

In a rare late-night version of its monthly open meeting, the FCC Wednesday punted on making any first drafts of important rules for the upcoming 700 MHz spectrum auctions, instead pushing back some of the more-controversial elements to allow for more public comment as well as the inevitable behind-the-scenes lobbying and dealmaking.
One partial winner Wednesday [...]

It’s not officially announced yet but one-number provider Grand Central now has support for mobile devices, allowing Grand Central users to see their in-box, set preferences, etc., as long as your mobile device supports an Internet browser.