Cable's Quad Play
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Cable companies want to control everything in the home, including wireless. Does it mean the end of cellular as we know...
France: Vivendi Pulls Out of PagesJaunes Sale
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French conglomerate Vivendi has pulled out of the race to acquire France Telecom's 54% stake in directory-services provider PagesJaunes, citing high price as its reason. "Primarily, due to price considerations, we will not participate in the bid for the acquisition of PagesJaunes, in the best interest of our ...
Netherlands: Warburg, Cinven Snap Up Casema for US$2.6 billion
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The prospect of consolidation in the Dutch cable industry moved a step closer today as private-equity companies finalised plans to merge the country's third-largest cable operator, Casema, with Multikable. Less than four years after buying Casema from France Telecom, Providence Equity Partners and the Carlyle group have ...
Microsoft, Nortel Form Telecom Alliance
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Microsoft Corp. and Nortel Networks Corp. have formed a four-year alliance to develop and sell products that aim to give people more sophisticated ways to communicate with each other. The wide-ranging deal, which could be extended, is focused on selling high-tech business communications offerings to corporations. It was announced...
BellSouth Shareholders Vote On AT&T Bid
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The 'moment of truth' is approaching this week for BellSouth shareholders who will be asked to approve the $67.1 billion purchase offer from AT&T and to incorporate the Cingular Wireless joint venture into the combined carrier company. Atlanta-based BellSouth has scheduled a special meeting of shareholders for Friday to vote ...
Microdot, Meet Memory Spot
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Promising to 'bridge the physical and digital world', Hewlett-Packard Co.said today it has developed a miniature wireless data chip that can store up to 4 megabits of data and transmit information at speeds of up to 10 Mbit/s. Resembling an RFID chip on steroids, the new experimental chips have a built-in antenna ...
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