The Verizon Wireless Developer Community Conference was held in San Jose, CA this past Tuesday. I was there, live-Tweeting as @VDCConference. There was also a world-wide discussion that took place on Twitter about the event, some of which was unified by the hashtag #VDC. Lots of great reaction to this bold new chapter, as Verizon laid out its plan to partner with developers, share our APIs and open a streamlined channel to get the latest apps on your smartphone through a V CAST Apps Store...
Read MoreSince PolicyBlog is supposed to be about, well, policy, we think it makes some sense to launch a new blog devoted to Verizon products and services like FiOS called “Verizon at Home” and I invite you to take a look. And, yes, we look forward to hearing your ideas for how we can make things better as well as letting you know about the latest things going on here. This morning, we have details on Verizon FiOS TV Widget Bazaar which (for now) includes Widgets for Facebook and Twitter as well...
Read More Time magazine carries and intriguing story about the emergence of Twitter as a new communications tool. It lauds the service as providing more evidence of the innovativeness of the U. S. economy pointing to the emergence of a host of online services and applications such as Facebook, Google, Blogger and Wikipedia as evidence that the U. S. remains one of the most innovative countries in the world. I think an untold part of this story however is role broadband deployment and connectivity...
Read MoreA little after 12:30pm (eastern) today, Tom Tauke hosts one of his regular media briefings to discuss technology, public policy and other Verizon related issues. It is usually a tight, DC based gaggle of trade and industry reporters who cover our sector but I thought I’d live Tweet the meeting and share some highlights. I’ll be using the hashtag
VZTT# #VZTT (for Verizon Tauke Talk) so grab your brown bag lunch and check it out. Follow me at @CZ on Twitter. 4:30pm Update:...
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