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[telecom] What Hath Bell Labs Wrought? The Future
THE IDEA FACTORY Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation By Jon Gertner What Hath Bell Labs Wrought? The Future By MICHIKO KAKUTANI March 19, 2012 In today's world of Apple, Google and...
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[telecom] Free apps eat up your phone battery just sending ads
Free apps eat up your phone battery just sending ads by Jacob Aron 18 March 2012 STRUGGLING to make your smartphone battery last the whole day? Paying for your apps might help. Up to 75 per cent of...
 
IBEW calls for 'March and Rally to Stop Corporate Greed' [telecom]
IBEW calls for "March and Rally to Stop Corporate Greed". This is the latest news on the March 22 demonstrations that both the IBEW and the CWA are organizing. This is from the International...
 
CWA Bargaining continues with AT&T [telecom]
Bargaining for Four AT&T Contracts Continues CWA bargaining teams are continuing separate negotiations with AT&T Midwest, AT&T West, AT&T Legacy and AT&T East. CWA negotiators are reporting tough...
 
CWA plans 'Day of Action' against Verizon [telecom]
The Communications Workers of America is planning a "Day of Action" against Verizon, which will be March 22. The CWA website has the announcement: There's still time to find an event in your community...
 
Should private ambulance companies have access to blocked CPN? [telecom]
The FCC is considering a petition for waiver of its rules regarding the delivery of Calling Party Number to a volunteer ambulance company. The idea, which appears to be back on the front burner at the...
 
Looks like lights out for LightSquared [telecom]
[CNN] Sprint terminates contract with LightSquared (New York) - Sprint ended its $9 billion agreement with LightSquared on Friday, after it became increasingly clear that LightSquared's network may...
 
[telecom] Spring Break Gets Tamer as World Watches Online
Spring Break Gets Tamer as World Watches Online By LIZETTE ALVAREZ March 16, 2012 KEY WEST, Fla. - Ah, Spring Break, with its copious debauchery, its spontaneous bouts of breast-baring, Jager bombing...
 
[telecom] For Apple, Pressure Builds Over App Store Fraud
For Apple, Pressure Builds Over App Store Fraud By EVELYN M. RUSLI and BRIAN X. CHEN March 15, 2012 In a little over an hour, Ryan Matthew Pierson racked up $437.71 in iTunes charges for virtual...
 
[telecom] Inside the Stratfor Attack
Inside the Stratfor Attack By NICOLE PERLROTH March 12, 2012 Last December, a group of hackers quietly orchestrated an attack on Stratfor Global Intelligence Service, a company based in Austin, Tex.,...
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Alleged AT&T Employee shown on tape at harvest time [telecom]
This one, I can't resist. It's a UTube shot of an alleged AT&T employee doing, um, alleged bad deeds. Raising the bar to steal some lunch. Raising the bar to steal some lunch.
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Anti-Verizon sites not hard to find [telecom]
I just came across several anti-verizon sites, and I pass them along with a large grain of salt. The first, which, among other things, has the following entry: I have experienced the worse customer...
 
Falcone's LightSquared Hires Legal Team to Fight Regulators [telecom]
Falcone's LightSquared Hires Legal Team to Fight Regulators by Scott Moritz and Todd Shields - Mar 13, 2012 6:12 PM ET . Billionaire Philip Falcone's LightSquared Inc. hired litigators Theodore Olson...
 
[telecom] The Age Of Apps
The Age Of Apps On Point with Tom Ashbrook Monday, March 12, 2012 A new iPad and the avalanche of "apps," all over. We'll look at everyday life in the age of apps. It's amazing what the apps on a...
 
[telecom] The iOS 5.1 update, "4G", AT&T, and the 3G Toggle
The iOS 5.1 update, "4G", AT&T, and the 3G Toggle by Brian Klug on 3/7/2012 AnandTech When the iPhone 4S first launched, AT&T ominously noted (through a document leaked to The Verge) that it was...