It serves as the gatekeeper to its App Store and it rules its mobile kingdom with an iron fist.
Stories such as Pierre's are part of the reason the U.S. Federal Communications Commission this week plans to propose rules to prevent mobile phone "bill shock, " a term that refers to bills that are higher than usual because of unanticipated fees and overage charges.
The company notes that the WCS spectrum was first auctioned in 1997, but has not been utilized for mobile Internet usage due to technical rules designed to avoid possible interference to satellite radio users in adjacent spectrum bands.
He suggested train operators should consider introducing rules on the use of mobile phones in carriages.
Carriers have really strict rules about who can collect mobile donations.
Driving while chatting on a mobile phone is common, though specifically forbidden by the new rules.
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The planned voluntary rules would cover "integrated electronic devices, including mobile phones".
The company makes clear that the decision to limit FaceTime over cellular to Mobile Share customers does not violate the FCC's net neutrality rules -- after all, it's being decidedly transparent about the frowned-upon choice -- nor does it cross the line on any "blocking" issues.
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Specifically, mobile computing is changing the Web in a big way and the old rules are changing.
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Unlike the single-player game, a mobile mothership, variations in maps, game types, starting forces and rules only make the game more intense.
The current rules balanced delivering services to the UK's 50 million mobile phone users and allowing local residents a voice, added Mr Dolan.
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I'm not going to say that the iPhone changed the rules, but it's certainly given me the best mobile Web browser I've ever experienced.
The new rules do not apply to text messaging nor internet access on a mobile phone.
The content of mobile messaging just as other forms of electronic communications, are subject to electronic discovery rules.
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As Netflix sees its future in mobile there are some useful lessons to draw from how mobile content has played out over the past five years as well as some golden rules of platform deployment.
Rather than craft every page individually, you set up rules and templates to guide how pages both online (as many sites do now) mobile and print will display content.
For mobile devices or certain classes of SaaS applications, perhaps it will be sufficient to set some ground rules, observe activity, and test when possible that the rules are being followed.
In a bid to restore some order, new rules introduced on 1 January stepped up penalties for speeding, drinking and driving and using a mobile phone while behind the wheel.
And now under proposed new rules of the Prevention and Significant Deterioration program, EPA has expanded its regulatory reach way beyond mobile emissions authorized by the 2007 Supreme Court decision to control permitting of stationary sources as well.
" Jonathan Donner, a researcher at Microsoft India who published a paper on "The Rules of Beeping, " said: "Beeping is simple: A person calls a mobile telephone number and then hangs up before the mobile's owner can pick up the call.
The FSA rules take effect mid November and other regulators will probably The SEC does not now require that business mobile calls be recorded, although Charvet expects similar regulation to be introduced in the States because mobile phones are so widely used in financial services.
He also quickly laid down a code of discipline as he enforced a set or rules including the requirement of the players to eat together, to take pride in their appearance and restricting mobile phones usage to the hotel room.
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