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It was bound to happen. Klausner Technologies, the self-proclaimed and now de-facto creator of Visual Voicemail, has gone after everyone in the wireless world using voicemail technologies that integrate even an iota of “visualness” into their voicemail platforms. AT&T and Apple have settled the their own case in order to keep using Visual Voicemail on the iPhone and iPhone 3G – one of the handsets’ premier features. Sprint is licensing the tech for their Sprint Instinct.
So, it should come as no surprise that Verizon has agreed to settle their own Visual Voicemail case with Klausner Technologies. Following on the announcement that Klausner was suing both LG and Verizon over the use of Visual Voicemail on certain LG handsets, Klausner has announced that his company will be licensing the technology to Verizon Wireless and Vodafone (minority stake-holder in the Verizon Wireless joint venture).
The financial terms under which Verizon and Vodafone are licensing the Visual Voicemail technology were not disclosed, but you can bet that it wasn’t cheap.
[Via: Reuters]
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Will Park
Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...
