Tata--the former Tata Group chairman who founded India's now-state-run carrier Air India--is considered the father of civil aviation in India.
The same game with slightly better AI would be a solid contender, and the addition of carrier-versus-carrier multiplayer would been fascinating.
The British carrier -- known for its bargain basement flights and tangerine-colored aircraft -- beat seven other airline giants to secure the rights to the London-Moscow route.
Zipwhip's revolutionary approach adds a second carrier-a text carrier-to existing business landline numbers, allowing businesses to take advantage of the increasing ubiquity of text messaging in consumer culture.
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Note: While Android is based on a Linux kernel, the goal behind Tizen seems to be an even more open-source, flexible OS designed to be user-friendly and carrier-friendly.
Sure, you could blame the evil carrier -- hell, that's always the easy route -- but where in this scenario can HTC insist that it stuck up for the enthusiasts?
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As with any large-scale network initiative, implementation of this carrier-class Wi-Fi transition will take some time, but rest assured these issues are being addressed by the mobile operator community and at least one of their Wi-Fi suppliers.
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The goal was to establish and encourage the adoption of a common set of standards that would bring a 3G-like end-user experience to Wi-Fi by facilitating an automatic network discovery, selection and authentication of carrier-operated Wi-Fi networks.
That rumored Highlight for T-Mobile is now official, filling yet another niche segment in Samsung's massive full-touch attack on the carrier -- an attack that now includes the Behold, the Memoir, and this bad boy.
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Yes, Android might be "open" in the sense that the source code is available, but there's no doubt Google's wielded incredible power over the platform by restricting access to Market and its own apps -- power that hasn't been used to prevent carrier-mandated bloatware or poorly-done manufacturer skinning, but has instead apparently been used to block legitimate competitors like Skyhook from doing business.
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Some mobile phone zealots believe that handsets - driven by must-have voice functionality and carrier subsidization - will ultimately be the only portable device people will ever need.
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And Ericsson bought BelAir Networks for an undisclosed sum in February for its carrier-grade Wi-Fi equipment.
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Although the sophisticated carrier-based A-6 fighter has long since been retired to museums, the old warriors who flew them are still kicking.
The sprawling aerospace company forged from the merger of McDonnell Aircraft and Douglas Aircraft in 1967 saw its carrier-based A-12 bomber canceled in January, and then lost the competition to build a successor to its signature F-15 fighter three months later.
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Motorola sees a future of Linux-based software and carrier-courting services, neither of which is met by iTunes.
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The Iraqis had no advance notice of night-time strikes by carrier-based pilots and were unable to disperse valuable pieces of equipment.
As far as the HMS Illustrious is concerned - Britain's aircraft carrier - it has taken security precautions when it came into Salalah Harbour just behind me here.
Crittercism found that most crashes were on less popular devices such as carrier-specific or regional-specific devices.
It's based on a schedule where there's I think roughly one-and-a-half carrier groups at all times in the Gulf.
There have been seven other warships to bear that name and there is already a petition to name a yet-to-be-built carrier the ninth USS Enterprise.
Britain has also helped with air-to-air refuelling, thus extending the effective range of America's carrier-based bombers, and agreed to the use of Diego Garcia, a British island in the Indian Ocean, as a base for heavy bombers.
The Navy is developing N-UCAS as a stealthy, carrier-based unmanned aircraft that would allow Carrier Strike Groups to operate effectively from outside the envelope of enemy missile threats and could act as a prime hunter against missiles and their launchers before and after launch.
Even airlines are getting in on the act, with Franco-Dutch carrier Air France-KLM currently in talks with Veolia Environnement's transport subsidiary over a possible joint venture in rail.
Even airlines are getting in on the act, with Franco-Dutch carrier Air France-KLM (other-otc: AFLYY - news - people ) currently in talks with Veolia Environnement (nyse: VE - news - people )'s transport subsidiary over a possible joint venture in rail.
The snag is that multi-carrier signals do not travel as far as single-carrier ones, so they require the construction of expensive repeater stations.
T-Mobile earlier this month rolled out an entirely new set of service plans that it says are contract-free as a way to lure carrier-wary users to its network.
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"The concept of being able to access any kind of communication from multiple devices is something fundamental, but so far they've all been kind of clunky -- there hasn't been a carrier-grade solution based on the network itself, " says Charles Gerlach, a director at the consulting firm Mainspring.
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But the scale of the threat was highlighted earlier this week when the chairman of China Mobile - the world's largest telecom carrier - said his firm was now more concerned about the challenge posed by Microsoft's Skype and Tencent's WeChat services than it was about competition from China's rival mobile networks.
Common carrier-type regulation, with its strict anti-discrimination mandates and price controls, dampens investment and innovation, especially in technologically dynamic, constantly evolving markets.
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