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Notorious for restricting the kinds of phones and applications customers can use, Verizon may have liberated its users, serving as a model for the industry. On Nov. 27, the company announced it will let any phone, technology permitting, connect to its network. The plan could push other U.S. carriers to offer the same flexibility, already common in Europe and Asia...
...iPhone launch in June suggested that savvy new devices, not carriers, could dictate the market. Now Google is planning its own mobile operating system. In addition to breaking the carrier monopoly on phone sales, Verizon's move could pave the way for users to connect via cameras and gaming systems...
...original intent of harassment laws was to prevent discrimination, as in the 1986 Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson Supreme Court decision, or to stop threatening and anonymous phone calls. Even the seriously flawed 2006 Violence Against Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act only punishes only those spammers who send e-mails “without disclosing his identity and with intent to annoy.” There is no precedent for a broad stroke against hurting people’s feelings on a social network...
...That kind of networking was something Barnhill couldn’t have learned at home, his father said in a phone interview from Napoleon, Ohio, were he was picking up a delivery at a Campbell Soup plant...
...long as the information is reasonably accurate—that’s the key,” he said. While the majority of riders interviewed hadn’t heard of the new program, most were receptive to the idea. However, some said they barely use their cell phones, do not having text message capabilities, or do not have a cell phone at all. “I’m too old to be text messaging,” Brookline resident Larry Cohen said. Dorchester resident Carol Downs was also averse to the idea of receiving e-mail...