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Telcos Turn to Stalin for Help Against Net Neutrality

Timothy Karr | Posted 03.04.2008 | Media

Read More: Verizon, Net Neutrality Laws, Comcast Net Neutrality, Net Neutrality Wall Street Journal, AT&T, Andy Kessler, Verizon Net Neutrality, Comcast, John C. Dvorak, Wall Street Journal, AT&T Net Neutrality, Net Neutrality, Media News
Timothy Karr

You would hope that Wall Street Journal editors had learned enough public policy by now to pull their writers' frequent rants against it into line with actual history.

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Hollywood, Silicon Valley Team Up For Start-Ups

New York Times | Laura M. Holson | Posted 03.03.2008 | Business

Read More: Digital Media, Accel Partners, AT&T, William Morris Agency, Silicon Valley Venture Capital, Hollywood, Venrock, Silicon Valley, Business News

Hollywood and Silicon Valley have something of a Mars/Venus problem: the two sides are talking but they don't speak each other's language. A new ventu...

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Sprint Restarts Pricing War

Silicon Alley Insider | Dan Frommer | Posted 02.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Unlimited Calling Plan, Sprint Unlimited Calling Plan, AT&T, Sprint, Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel, Spring Unlimited Text Messaging, T-Mobile, Unlimited Text Messaging, Business News

Sprint Nextel's new plan to hang on to fleeing customers: An all-you-can-eat calling package priced $10 below its competitors. Sprint plans to sell a...

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AT&T's Costly iPhone Bill

Silicon Alley Insider | Dan Frommer | Posted 02.27.2008 | Business

Read More: Iphone, Apple SEC, AT&T, Apple, Apple Iphone, iPhone AT&T, Apple AT&T, Business News

Apple's iPhone has been a big hit for exclusive U.S. carrier AT&T -- but it's an expensive one. In its annual report to the SEC (PDF), AT&T said sell...

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Visa's IPO: The Next Big Thing

Huffington Post | Posted 02.25.2008 | Business

Read More: MasterCard IPO, Biggest IPO, Kraft Food, AT&T, Sec, Largest IPO, Visa, Securities and Exchange Commission, Mastercard, Visa IPO, Initial Public Offering, Business News

On Monday, Visa announced that it was looking to raise $19 billion from its initial public offering (IPO), which would make it the largest in U.S. his...

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3 Cell Carriers in Price Battle

AP | PETER SVENSSON | Posted 02.19.2008 | Business

Read More: Cell Phones, Spring Nextel, AT&T Mobility, AT&T, Price War, Sprint, Mobile Phones, Verizon, Verizon Wireless, Business News

NEW YORK — Verizon Wireless introduced an unlimited calling plan $99.99 a month on Tuesday, a move that was quickly matched by AT&T Mobility and...

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Senate Democrats Hand Bush Another Victory

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 02.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Russ Feingold, Karl Rove, Hatch Act, Harriet Miers, Christopher Dodd, Fisa, Att, Barack Obama, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

What good has it been to have the Democrats in control of the House and the Senate over the past year?

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Spying & Telco Immunity: It's The System, Stupid!

Josh Silver | Posted 02.13.2008 | Media

Read More: AT&T, Spying, Censorship, Internet, Telephone Companies Surveillance, Save the Internet, Telco, Media News
Josh Silver

If Tuesday's immunity vote holds, the largest phone companies will only be emboldened in their efforts to control the Internet.

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Starbucks Ditches T-Mobile For AT&T

Crave | Caroline McCarthy | Posted 02.11.2008 | Business

Read More: T-Mobile, Starbucks WiFi, Starbucks AT&T, AT&T, Wi-Fi, Starbucks Wi-Fi, Starbucks, Business News

Ubiquitous caffeine conglomerate Starbucks has ended its Wi-Fi partnership with T-Mobile in favor of one with AT&T. Under the existing plan with T-Mo...

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Recession Could Crush Palm, Hurt RIM, Ding Motorola: Citi

Silicon Alley Insider | Dan Frommer | Posted 02.07.2008 | Business

Read More: Rimm, Palm, Comcast, AT&T, Motorola, Jim Suva, Recession, Recession Worries, Research in Motion, Business News

We already know that the softening U.S. economy has affected telecom carriers AT&T and Comcast. How about cellphone makers? Yep, they're at risk too. ...

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The Future of the Internet: Going Public

Craig Aaron | Posted 02.05.2008 | Media

Read More: Google, Ted Stevens, Broadband, Congress, MoveOn.Org, Christian Coalition, AT&T, Internet, Japan, Comcast, Net Neutrality, Denmark, Media News
Craig Aaron

The lobbyists for the big phone and cable companies benefit from keeping us in the dark. They claim this stuff is too complex for us simpletons to comprehend.

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Apple Lost $300+ Million On Unlocked iPhones In 2007

MarketWatch | Rex Crum | Posted 01.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Iphone, AT&T, Unlocked iPhone, Unlocking the iPhone, Apple, Wireless Networks, Business News

A significant number of customers appear to be buying Apple Inc.'s popular iPhone with the intention of "unlocking" the device to use on a range of wi...

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Coke, Ford, AT&T Shell Out $35M Each For "Idol Ads"

Hollywood Reporter | Gail Schiller | Posted 01.15.2008 | Business

Read More: Fox, American Idol Advertising, AT&T, Coca-Cola, American Idol, American Idol Ads, Ford, Business News

Coca-Cola, Ford and AT&T are back again as the three main sponsors of Fox's megahit "American Idol," forking over roughly $35 million each for the opp...

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Roadblocks to the Mobile Web

Timothy Karr | Posted 01.11.2008 | Media

Read More: Censorship, Open Access, Fcc, AT&T, Internet, Verizon, Iphone, Net Neutrality, Media News
Timothy Karr

Surfing the mobile Web will never be a true Internet experience as long as powerful wireless companies like Verizon and AT&T dictate policy in Washington and throttle Internet access over their networks.

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Housing Woes, AT&T News Sink Stocks

AP | Madlen Read | Posted 01.08.2008 | Business

Read More: AT&T, Dow Jones, Wall Street, Stock Market, Countrywide Financial, Business News

Wall Street skidded lower in another erratic session Tuesday as investors worried that the tumbling economy may not only cripple mortgage lenders like...

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Setting the Stage for a People-Powered Web in 2008

Timothy Karr | Posted 01.04.2008 | Media

Read More: Google Phone, Iphone, Privacy Invasions, Peer to Peer Downloading, Us Telephone Company Bandwith, Fcc, Google Android Kit, AT&T, Free Speech, Net Neutrality, Telephone Companies Surveillance, Media News
Timothy Karr

Protecting a free-flowing Internet from these would-be gatekeepers depends largely on decisions we will make in 2008.

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Dogs Of The Dow

24/7 Wall Street | John C. Ogg | Posted 12.26.2007 | Business

Read More: General Electric, Citigroup, JP Morgan, AT&T, Ge, General Motors, Gm, Verizon, Unit Investment Trusts, Dogs of the Dow, Altria, Home Depot, Pfizer, Dupont, Business News

The Dogs of the Dow aren't necessarily the worst performers of the prior year, but they pay the highest the dividend yields. We wanted to review the ...

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Ralph Nader's Hollowed Skull

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 12.17.2007 | Home

Read More: Ge, Merger, Bertelsmann, Sony, AT&T, Conglomerates, AOL/TIME WARNER, Indymedia.org, LIBERTY MEDIA, Rupert Murdoch, alternet.org, News Corp, Viacom, Ralph Nader, Mergers, Disney, Big Media, Pacifica, Vivendi, Home News
Allison Kilkenny

It seems like every liberal pundit has their panties in a twist about Big Media mergers. When we're hit over the head with A BIG story relentlessly, ...

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Suckered by Astroturf

Timothy Karr | Posted 11.20.2007 | Media

Read More: Net Neutrality Laws, Verizon Net Neutrality, USA Today Net Neutrality, Net Neutrality Astroturfing, AT&T Net Neutrality, AT&T, Net Neutrality, Media News
Timothy Karr

USA Today joins the illustrious list of news organizations to be taken for a ride by Astroturf. Earlier this week, the paper's media reporter writes that the end of the Internet is nigh.

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Net Neutrality's Second Coming

Timothy Karr | Posted 10.29.2007 | Media

Read More: Verizon, Verizon Net Neutrality, AT&T Net Neutrality, AT&T, Obama Net Neutrality, Net Neutrality, Media News
Timothy Karr

A few of Washington's finest recently hunkered down behind their laptops to convince the world that Net Neutrality was dead and gone.

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Comcast's Internet 'Throttling' Exposes Tip of the Iceberg

Timothy Karr | Posted 10.29.2007 | Media

Read More: Verizon, Comcast Net Neutrality, AT&T, Youtube, Comcast, Comcast Interfering, YouTube Net Neutrality, Net Neutrality, Media News
Timothy Karr

Net Neutrality was struck from the books by the FCC in a now infamous 2005 ruling. We're now getting a clear glimpse of the aftermath of this decision.

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Money Talks

Laura Scher | Posted 10.25.2007 | Business

Read More: AT&T Donations, Working Assets, Verizon, Fcc, Warantless Surveillance, Warantless Eavesdropping, Federal Communications Commission, AT&T, Retroactive Immunity, Phone Companies, Verizon Donations, Telecoms, Senate Intelligence Committee, Telephone Companies Surveillance, Phone Companies Spying, John D. Rockefeller, Business News
Laura Scher

Now that the issues have gone from thwarting competition to spying, I hope the public will hang up on the telecom companies' on-going campaign to buy the law that suits them best.

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Verizon's Crocodile Tears Mask a Threat to Democracy

Timothy Karr | Posted 10.21.2007 | Media

Read More: Freedom of Speech, Version Wiretapping, AT&T, Right to Privacy, Verizon, Verizon Wireless, Verizon Censoring, Free Speech, Media News
Timothy Karr

There are no laws that prevent these giant companies from censoring your speech on their networks. That's right -- free speech ends at your cell phone.

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Friday Democratic Talking Points [Vol. 5]

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.12.2007 | Politics

Read More: Al Gore, Democrat, World Court, Nuremburg, United Nations, Catholics United, Iraq, John Rockefeller, Bush, Charles Rangel, AT&T, Armenia, Talking Points, National Security, Blackwater, Nancy Pelosi, Childrens Health, Health Care, Rule of Law, War Crime, Abortion, Turkey, Marines, Amnesty, Catholic, Congress, Nobel Peace Prize, Pro-Life, Ted Kennedy, Talk Radio, Genocide, Schip, Wiretapping, Verizon, Death Penalty, Nazi, Christian, Senate, Torture, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Welcome back to the weekly talking points for Democrats appearing on television this weekend. Before I begin, I'd like to wish Ted Kennedy a fast and...

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Bush and the Phone Companies: Partners in Crime

Timothy Karr | Posted 10.11.2007 | Media

Read More: Verizon, AT&T, Telecoms, Media News
Timothy Karr

The phone companies' lobbyists have teamed with Bush to strong arm Congress into granting full immunity for a disturbing array of illegal and unconstitutional acts.

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