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Apple Starts Charging For Formerly Free Software
News The trend toward charging for once-free software began when Apple started charging for .Mac in 2002. In an attempt to ease the shift, Apple is trying to offer more with the paid version of iLife than it did with the standalone applications, much as...
[January 9, 2004, 8:00]
Prepaid Postpaid Convergent Charging
White Papers This is achieved with a two-layered architecture for Convergent Charging and Business Support; comprising a telecom specific Charging Control and an industry generic Business Horizontal. The simple segmentation of mobile subscribers into prepaid...
[January 10, 2007, 23:00]
A Flexible Time-Based Pricing Policy For Charging Internet Services
White Papers This paper discusses the applicability of the duration-based pricing scheme for charging Internet services that constantly occupy the resources. The integration of telecommunications and data networks enables Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to...
[October 20, 2007, 0:00]
Transaction Management For Sender/Receiver-Payment Schemes In Charging And Accounting Systems For Interconnected Networks
White Papers The new system provides more flexibility than existing charging schemes. This paper presents an Internet transaction management system for sender/receiver payment schemes. This system allows an arbitrary split of transaction charges between two...
[April 20, 2005, 0:00]
HP OpenView Internet Usage Manager 5.0: Convergent Charging And Real-Time Mediation For Next-Generation And IMS-Based Services
White Papers HP OpenView Internet Usage Manager release 5.0 sets the stage for real-time mediation and convergent charging for next-generation and evolving IMS-based services by enabling real-time Online Charging System with Diameter.
[February 21, 2007, 23:00]
HP Convergent Charging Approach For Adaptive Billing
White Papers As the communications landscape continues its tumultuous evolution, service providers (SPs) are recognizing the critical need to implement a robust and flexible convergent charging component within a consolidated business support system (BSS).
[February 23, 2005, 23:00]
Vodafone Considers Charging For Mobile Spam
News Mobile network operator Vodafone is considering charging business customers for sending multimedia messages in an attempt to prevent its mobile messaging systems becoming clogged up with unsolicited junk mail.
[June 7, 2004, 17:50]
GPRS Charging Schemes
White Papers This paper studies different charging schemes possible in GPRS networks. The existing and future charging schemes are presented and analyzed and the requirements for charging are introduced. In the comparison among Finnish operators is indicated...
[June 23, 2004, 0:00]
O2 To Start Charging For 0845 Calls
News O2 is to start charging for calls to non-geographic numbers, bringing it in line with other UK mobile operators. The operator, which is owned by Spanish telco Telefonica, had been the only network to include non-geographic calls, such as 0845 and...
[August 30, 2007, 10:09]
Vodafone Considers Charging For Mobile Spam
Talkback Spam is accelerating at such a fast pace that this is probably a good solution for Vodafone to implement.
[June 7, 2004, 19:46]
Reducing Costs And Accurate Charging Of IT Services
White Papers The relationship between the supplier of IT services to a major UK Utility and its client was becoming more and more fraught. IT managers' time was increasingly dominated by negotiations over budgets for IT staff and estimates of time for...
[August 10, 2006, 0:00]
A Guide To Content Charging And Revenue Settlement
White Papers With the evermore increase in the delivery of mixed content across mobile networks such as Multi-Media Messaging, Web Content, Video Content as well as voice services and wireless data Serive operators have to manage this more complex array of...
[July 19, 2007, 0:00]
Juniper Charging Hard Into Cisco's Turf
News A recent study shows that Juniper Networks continues to claim more of Cisco Systems' market for high-end routers. Research by the Dell'Oro Group indicates that Juniper grabbed 38 percent of the $753m (£525.9m) market in the first quarter of 2001...
[May 17, 2001, 9:17]
Charging And Mobility Within The IMS
White Papers Today, successful service strategies require collaboration and alignment among subscribers, service providers, and technology suppliers. With control shifting more into the hands of the users, the way in which services must be delivered is dictated...
[January 5, 2006, 23:00]
Will Congestion Charging Boost Teleworking?
News There are signs that London's impending congestion charge, being keenly watched by other cities that would like to bring in similar schemes, could alter the way we do business. Some high-tech companies -- who admittedly have a vested interest...
[February 11, 2003, 12:10]
Charging And Billing Models For GSM And Future Mobile Internet Services
White Papers Mobile telephone communications and the Internet are converging and may eventually operate on a common technical platform, using TCP/IP networks as the main backbone medium. Mobile telephones are converging to Internet terminals, allowing the user...
[July 26, 2007, 0:00]
Is It Time To Charge For Email?
Talkback Charging for e-mail is absurd. Why don't they just start charging me for talking, too. Charging for e-mail, well, give me yet another reason to implement another way to send that binary back and forth.
[February 9, 2004, 10:19]
Is It Time To Charge For Email?
Talkback Charging for sending all types of advertisements through the US Post Office sure doesn't stop all the clutter in my "snail" mail box. Why would you think charging for email over the Internet would have a stifling effect on Spam.
[February 9, 2004, 10:01]
Gartner: Seven IT Challenges To Change The World
News Self-charging devices and real-time language translation are among technologies pinpointed by future-gazers that will change the world. Developing self-charging devices Analysts at Gartner have mapped out the key challenges where technology can...
[April 15, 2008, 9:40]
Sun To Charge For Next StarOffice
News In a move that could undercut its anti-Microsoft campaign, Sun Microsystems plans to start charging for the next version of its StarOffice software, a suite of programs that competes with Microsoft Office but runs on Linux and Solaris as well as...
[February 26, 2002, 10:10]
