Miami Herald |
October 11th, 2008 |
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Qwest Communications International Inc. says it has reached a tentative agreement for a four-year contract with a union representing about 20,000 employees.[...]
Miami Herald |
October 10th, 2008 |
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In a new survey, AT&T asked parents about their use of parental controls for cyber technologies. Eighty-four percent of the respondents said that having parental controls and safety tools is either extremely or very important for keeping children safe when they use communications and entertainment technologies[...]
AT&T; today launched a beta version of its Online Experience Store, taking its brick-and-mortar presence virtual.[...]
AT&T;, Qwest Communications and Verizon are all taking initiatives to ingratiate themselves more completely with consumers by offering more help. Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report Arbor Networks, Inc., in cooperation with the Internet network security operations community, has completed the second edition of an ongoing series of annual operational security surveys. [...]
LightReading |
October 10th, 2008 |
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Watching YouTube on your TV is finally easy - and it took a telco to make it happen![...]
TeleGeography |
October 10th, 2008 |
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Thailand’s largest provincial fixed line telco TT&T; has suspended a THB50 billion (USD1.5 billion) investment plan due to the global financial crisis, in line with recent announcements by cellcos AIS and DTAC to scale back rollouts, reports the Bangkok Post. Prasitchai Kritsanayunyong, executive vice-president of TT&T;, said the company would [...]
VoIP News |
October 10th, 2008 |
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Verizon Business has released a new managed unified communications and collaboration solution via Cisco Unified Communications Manager 6.1. The managed platform allows workers to integrate voice mail, email and instant messaging seamlessly. "Today's enterprise is faced with many new challenges, including how to enable employee productivity, do more with less [...]
TeleGeography |
October 9th, 2008 |
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India’s Economic Times is reporting that the government has created a new framework to govern mergers and acquisitions (M&A;) that could effectively prevent newer 2G operators from selling majority stakes. Under the proposed changes, owners of cellcos including Datacom, Unitech and Loop Telecom will have to pay an acquisition fee [...]
VoIP News |
October 9th, 2008 |
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VoIP Watch wonders if Vonage just screwed up when Verizon sued it. After all, Cox won the lawsuit that Verizon filed against its company. Read it here. Smith on VoIP has some speculative thoughts about why Microsoft has restored VoIP to its messenger service. Read it here. EMC has a [...]
KT Corp, South Korea's leading broadband service provider, said today it signed a tentative deal with Apple Corp. to cooperate in providing high-speed internet services bundled with Apple's products, the Yonhap English News reports. The memorandum of understanding signed with Apple calls for cooperation in combining WiBro,[...]
BizJournals |
October 8th, 2008 |
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Verizon Communications Inc. is one step closer to offering its FiOS television service in D.C.[...]
VoIP News |
October 8th, 2008 |
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A Federal jury ruled today that Cox didn't infringe on Verizon's patents. Verizon had sued the competing company earlier this year, after winning a similar lawsuit against Vonage. No such luck this time. Verizon isn't sure if they will appeal and drag the whole thing out further … According to [...]
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MII) has issued a statement urging the country's three major telcos—China Mobile Communications Corp., China United Telecommunications Corp., and China Telecommunications Corp.—to share and jointly build underlying passive telecoms infrastructure. The telecoms[...]
VoIP News |
October 6th, 2008 |
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Verizon Business now has an Internet protocol termination service. It's available now on a limited basis. According to Verizon: The move to offer an IP-based toll-free termination option comes as wholesale customers and their customers transition to an all-IP network architecture, driven by growth in IP applications such as voice [...]
CNN |
October 1st, 2008 |
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The European Commission has said high-speed broadband is the key to making Europe the leader in the next generation of the internet. The European Union (EU) body is considering the implications of Web 3.0., which will rely on high-performance broadband infrastructure. Web 3.0 refers to a theoretical third generation of[...]
LightReading |
September 29th, 2008 |
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Broadband service provider is powering Yalp!, its free Internet video hub, with a Cisco platform that cooks in Adobe's Flash platform[...]
Seeking Alpha |
October 5th, 2008 |
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Silicon Valley is seeing pink. Hit by turmoil in the financial markets, general economic decline, and slowing sales, the tech sector is expected to follow Wall Street with its own mass layoffs. Rumors abound that AT&T (T), Yahoo (YHOO), and eBay (EBAY) will together release thousands of workers into the [...]
