call blocking

Mr. Number Aims to Make Unwanted Cell Phone Calls a Thing of the Past

Ina Fried in Mobile on April 20, 2011 at 5:30 am PT

The start-up, launched by Vindigo founder Jason Devitt, aims to return control of the phone to its owner by blocking unwanted calls and using crowdsourcing to identify callers not in one’s address book. A new extension of the service, being announced on Wednesday, will allow users to also tell their friends whether they are interested in being called at the moment.

AT&T, Google: Nuns on the Run

John Paczkowski in News on October 15, 2009 at 5:00 am PT

In the rhetorical battle over net neutrality, Google may have regulatory capitalism with which to bludgeon and batter AT&T, but AT&T has Benedictine nuns, an entire convent of them. In a 13-page letter to the Federal Communications Commission Wednesday, the carrier took issue with Google’s claim that its Google Voice service only blocks calls to adult sex chat lines, asserting that it also blocks calls to small businesses and Benedictine nuns.

AT&T, Google: Nuns on the Run

John Paczkowski in News on October 15, 2009 at 5:00 am PT

In the rhetorical battle over net neutrality, Google may have regulatory capitalism with which to bludgeon and batter AT&T, but AT&T has Benedictine nuns, an entire convent of them. In a 13-page letter to the Federal Communications Commission Wednesday, the carrier took issue with Google’s claim that its Google Voice service only blocks calls to adult sex chat lines, asserting that it also blocks calls to small businesses and Benedictine nuns.

Google to AT&T: "Noisome Trumpeter"? Takes One to Know One.

John Paczkowski in News on September 25, 2009 at 2:46 pm PT

Google is violating the Net neutrality principles it so strongly advocates–according to AT&T, anyway. In a letter to the head of the Federal Communications Commission’s Wireline Competition Bureau Friday, the telephone company described Google as “one of the most noisome trumpeters of so-called net-neutrality” and asked the FCC to order it to “play by the same rules as its competitors.”

Google to AT&T: “Noisome Trumpeter”? Takes One to Know One.

John Paczkowski in News on September 25, 2009 at 2:46 pm PT

Google is violating the Net neutrality principles it so strongly advocates–according to AT&T, anyway. In a letter to the head of the Federal Communications Commission’s Wireline Competition Bureau Friday, the telephone company described Google as “one of the most noisome trumpeters of so-called net-neutrality” and asked the FCC to order it to “play by the same rules as its competitors.”