In a legal fight over the advertising for Verizon VZ and AT&T T's rival 3G cellphone networks, AT&T has admitted that its 3G network is smaller and that Verizon's ads are "literally true based on square miles." (This explains, in part, why calls to iPhone users so often end up...
AT&T's attempt to stop Verizon's ad campaign is only delivering self-inflicted wounds and potentially given Apple more reason to find other partners. by Erik Sherman
BOSTON (Reuters) - Billionaire investor George Soros' hedge fund reported holdings of $6.2 billion during the third quarter, an increase of $2 billion, after taking a stake in automaker Ford and boosting his holdings in communications services stocks.According to a regulatory filing on Monday Soros Fund Management took a 7.3...
AT&T sues Verizon over ad; Intel hired antitrust lawyer; FTC going after BlueHippo; Apple beats Psystar; and EU to require users to explicitly authorize browser cookies. by Erik Sherman
By Paul ThomaschNEW YORK (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel Corp S reported a wider quarterly loss and a 9 percent revenue decline, but its success in slowing the loss of the most valuable wireless subscribers took some of the sting out of the results.At the heart of Sprint's struggles is the...
Apple's latest pair of iPhone ads go public in the USA tonight, and appear to see the company taking to the defence of current carrier, AT&T, itself targeted in recent Verizon ads. The new campaign focuses on the iPhone's ability...
AT&T is following Verizon's lead today with the introduction of new prepaid broadband plans targeted directly at netbook and laptop users who find themselves out of WiFi range and in desperate need of email every once in a while. The so-called DataConnect Pass plans exactly mirror Verizon's pricing,...
Android 2.0 on the Verizon DROID Smartphone is indeed sophisticated, but for a new user can also be daunting or even overwhelming. The Google Android 2.0 OS built into the Motorola/Verizon DROID is by far one of the most sophisticated smartphone UIs I have ever seen â?? and with that...
AT&T today introduced a prepaid mobile broadband product that exactly matches the pricing of similar plans launched earlier this month by Verizon Wireless. I was skeptical of Verizon’s offering because it’s pretty pricey, and I’m not sold on AT&T’s either, but my colleague Kevin Tofel points out that for folks who use Wi-Fi most of [...]
With a possible buyout of General Electric Co.’s (NYSE: GE) NBC Universal Inc. in the works, Comcast Corp. (Nasdaq: CMCSA) is adapting to a changing technological landscape.[More...]
The New York City Council is voting on a resolution this morning supporting the idea that Internet service providers cannot discriminate against web traffic on their networks. As gestures go, this resolution supporting net neutrality is more symbolic than it is useful, and to that end has already yielded a couple of photos of FCC [...]
With a possible buyout of General Electric Co.’s (GE) NBC Universal Inc. in the works, Comcast Corp. (CMCSA) is adapting to a changing technological landscape.
Comcast, the United States’ largest cable television provider, is hoping to avoid becoming the next newspaper or record company by expanding its role from an entertainment medium ...
Sprint Nextel (S) has expanded its fourth-generation (4G) wireless broadband network to two more US cities. The third largest US carrier has officially launched commercial services in San Antonio and Austin in Texas. The company’s 4G services now covers about 25 markets in the US, with plans to address more than 120 million people by [...]
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