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...
New York, Nov 23 (TradersHuddle.com) - Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ) fired the first salvo with its marketing campaign that compares its 3G coverage and AT&T’s (NYSE:T). With the Verizon’s campaign underway, AT&T tried to stop it through legal challenges, after it seemed that the marketing message was gathe. Read More --
The Verizon Samsung Omnia II's launch isn't going to be exciting just for Windows Mobile fans, it's going to be exciting for anyone that's been to Swype's continuous finger-motion typing interface. That's because Verizon (NYSE: VZ)'s Samsung Omnia II will be the first production device to support the innovative Swype...
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Hewlett-Packard Co said a strong performance in China and improved profit margins in its services business helped drive quarterly earnings 14 percent higher. The fiscal fourth quarter results released on Monday were in line with those the company preannounced two weeks ago, which topped Wall Street's estimates.
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...
US stocks finished with gains on Monday as investors reacted to stronger than expected housing data. Shares also rallied as dollar fell against basket of currencies, sending commodity prices higher.[More...]
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 ...
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