Thursday, October 15, 2009
AT&T, Google: Nuns on the Run
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’s facing another billion dollar lawsuit–and, whaddaya know, it’s not from Viacom. It’s from LimitNone, a small software developer that claims Google’s Email Uploader tool copies the look, feel, functionality and distribution model of its gMove application. 
Now that Google’s demonstrated that you can, in fact, make money without doing evil, it’s apparently wiling to admit you can make even more without lending much credence to silly informal corporate mottos. 
