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The U.S. imagines itself as the world’s leader in technology, and for good reason. American tech dominates many world markets. Yet just about every report that looks at where America is and where it is going sees this nation in decline or at risk of it. It’s a theme that has been picked up by President Barack Obama and Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, who won a Nobel Prize in physics. Both have warned recently that the nation is facing a “Sputnik moment,” with a shrinking share of the world’s technology export market. This view also arises as the U.S. continues to lead the world in new tech directions, such as cloud computing. U.S. tech firms are building highly energy-efficient data centers at shopping-mall-size scales to serve global customers.

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Here’s how it works: Advertisers or media companies register a StarStar code with Zoove — recent campaigns include **Suzuki, **GSCookies for the Girls Scouts and **GMA for Good Morning America — and when consumers dial, they get a text message with a link or voice recording. I dialed **GSCookies, started to listen to a recording and received a text message with a link to the App Store to download a cookie locator. Then I tried **Suzuki and got a link to a video, which I didn’t watch. Ad messaging aside, it worked! On the first try! Shouldn’t technology be this easy?

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This is being shared via Thinking Space, portable Mind Mapping for the Android platform. If you have

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“The vast majority of mobile carriers, both large and small, have waited a long time for the commission to recognize that both data roaming and voice roaming are critical to competition and keeping consumer pricing affordable,” said Carri Bennet , RTG’s general counsel. “This decision creates a practical regulatory framework that should help protect all carriers from anticompetitive practices and by extension secures national data roaming for all American consumers regardless of who they use as their mobile wireless service provider.”

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Survey: Mobile News & Paying Online | State of the Media

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This is a bad idea. Go to Sunlight Foundation’s “Save the Data” site to find out what you can do to make sure this doesn’t happen.

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