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Volume 32 : Issue 201 : "text" Format
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Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 18:16:00 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Microsoft won't make Office editing free on iOS/Android, so Google does
Message-ID: <p0624083ace651c459b58@[10.0.1.8]>
Microsoft won't make Office editing free on iOS/Android, so Google does
Quickoffice probably won't be as good as Microsoft, but now it's free.
by Jon Brodkin
Sept 19 2013
Ars Technica
Today Google made Quickoffice-its app for creating and editing
Microsoft Office documents-free to all users of iPhones, iPads, and
Android devices.
Quickoffice was bought by Google a year ago, and it has provided
editing of Microsoft Office documents in their native formats on
mobile devices for more than a couple of years. The app cost $20, but
Google made it free to companies that are paying subscribers of
Google Apps for Business. With today's update, it's free to everyone
with a Google account, whether you pay for a Google Apps subscription
or not.
...
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/09/microsoft-wont-make-office-editing-free-on-iosandroid-so-google-does/
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 16:09:57 +0000 (UTC)
From: wollman@bimajority.org (Garrett Wollman)
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Microsoft won't make Office editing free on iOS/Android, so Google does
Message-ID: <l1v1sl$h5n$2@grapevine.csail.mit.edu>
In article <p0624083ace651c459b58@[10.0.1.8]>,
Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> quoted a webzine article which said:
>Quickoffice was bought by Google a year ago, and it has provided
>editing of Microsoft Office documents in their native formats on
>mobile devices for more than a couple of years. The app cost $20,
To whom? It came preloaded on both of my Android phones.
-GAWollman
--
Garrett A. Wollman | What intellectual phenomenon can be older, or more oft
wollman@bimajority.org| repeated, than the story of a large research program
Opinions not shared by| that impaled itself upon a false central assumption
my employers. | accepted by all practitioners? - S.J. Gould, 1993
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 20:59:05 -0700
From: Thad Floryan <thad@thadlabs.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Judge rejects proposed member of LightSquared auction committee
Message-ID: <52425F89.40800@thadlabs.com>
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/24/us-lightsquared-bankruptcy-idUSBRE98N10G20130924
Judge rejects proposed member of LightSquared auction committee
By Nick Brown Tue Sep 24, 2013 1:52pm EDT
(Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Tuesday blocked a proposed appointee to a
committee to oversee the bankruptcy auction of broadband company
LightSquared LP, citing a conflict of interests, and admonished the
company for making the nomination.
Donna Alderman cannot be part of the committee because she could be seen
as having a bias against satellite television company Dish Network Corp,
which is seeking to acquire LightSquared's spectrum, U.S. Bankruptcy
Judge Shelley Chapman said.
Alderman, a former director at satellite operator DBSD, lost her job
when Dish acquired DBSD in 2011, then unsuccessfully sought $7 million
from Dish for her role in generating value for DBSD's estate. She ended
up with $750,000 in severance.
LightSquared's creditors objected to Alderman's appointment on Monday,
citing her bitterness toward Dish.
At a hearing in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New York on Tuesday,
Chapman lambasted the proposed appointment, saying Alderman could be
perceived as having an anti-Dish bias.
"Let's cut to the chase," Chapman told a lawyer for LightSquared. "You
had a list of a dozen candidates. And yet we have someone who has
caused, with all due respect, a tremendous amount of controversy and
raised the specter of yet another sideshow. Frankly, I don't understand
it."
A source with knowledge of the situation said Alderman and Dish had a
falling-out after DBSD was bought by Dish, and in emails reported by the
Wall Street Journal on Monday, Alderman said she felt "screwed" by Dish.
At Tuesday's hearing, LightSquared attorney Matthew Barr played down
Alderman's feelings toward Dish.
"Unfortunately, people send emails like that, but do they really mean
them?" Barr said. "Do you not have the ability to stand up and say, 'I
sent those emails but I am telling you I do not have a bias?'"
Chapman said the company should not have a problem finding a replacement
"in the financial capital of the world."
"There are other folks out there who can do this," she said.
LightSquared declared bankruptcy in 2012 after the Federal Communications
Commission revoked its license to use its spectrum amid concerns a plan
to build a wireless network could interfere with global positioning
systems.
Its bankruptcy has been marred by mistrust and accusations of wrongdoing
between Phil Falcone's Harbinger Capital Partners, which owns more than
80 percent of the company, and Dish, whose chief executive, Charlie
Ergen, is staging an aggressive takeover effort.
A Dish affiliate has offered $2.2 billion for LightSquared's spectrum.
According to a lawyer for Dish, Rachel Strickland, Harbinger has refused
to negotiate.
LightSquared has agreed to auction itself to the highest bidder.
Lenders have said Harbinger's interest lies in blocking a sale and that
it cannot be trusted to run its own auction.
Competing proposals by the company and its lenders for how to run the
auction, initially slated to be argued at Tuesday's hearing, were
adjourned until next Monday as the sides try to hash out a resolution.
LightSquared had agreed to appoint an independent, three-member
committee to oversee the auction. In addition to Alderman, it named
former restructuring lawyer Alan Carr and investment adviser Neal
Goldman to the committee, whose members would receive $35,000 a month in
compensation.
(Reporting by Nick Brown; editing by Andrew Hay)
***** Moderator's Note *****
How come nobody pays ME $750,000 just to go away?
Bill Horne
Moderator
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 17:42:04 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Apple Market Share: Facts and Psychology
Message-ID: <p0624082bce650a6c6c6b@[10.0.1.8]>
Apple Market Share: Facts and Psychology
Sep 15, 2013
By Jean-Louis Gassée
Monday Note
Remember netbooks? When Apple was too greedy and stupid to make a
truly low-cost Macintosh? Here we go again, Apple refuses to make a
genuinely affordable iPhone. There will be consequences - similar to
what happened when the Mac refused to join netbooks circling the
drain.
...
http://www.mondaynote.com/2013/09/15/apple-market-share-facts-and-psychology/
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 18:06:26 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Murdoch Said to Chafe at AllThingsD Terms After Takeover
Message-ID: <p06240839ce651916dc3d@[10.0.1.8]>
Murdoch Said to Chafe at AllThingsD Terms After Takeover
By Edmund Lee - Sep 21, 2013
Bloomberg
News Corp. (NWSA), which is severing ties with AllThingsD founders
Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher at the end of the year, objected to
the terms of the journalists' contract soon after the media company
took over the operation in 2007, two people with knowledge of the
matter said.
Mossberg and Swisher together take slightly more than 50 percent of
AllThingsD's conference revenue, including ticket sales and
sponsorships, according to people familiar with the business, who
asked not to be identified because the terms are private. The
contract was originally negotiated years before News Corp.'s Rupert
Murdoch acquired AllThingsD as part of his Dow Jones purchase, and he
and other executives bristled at the arrangement, people with
knowledge of their thinking said.
...
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-20/murdoch-said-to-object-to-allthingsd-terms-after-2007-takeover.html
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