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AT&T stories: 69 news summaries

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Sprint, AT&T, BofA
Faves of Identity Thieves

Half of all complaints in 2006 months came from 25 companies

Feb 29, 08 5:41 PM CST
(Newser) - Bank of America led as a target for identity thieves in a 2006 sample of FTC complaints, followed closely by AT&T and Sprint. The survey by Berkeley researchers found that half of all complaints involved 25 organizations, mainly banks and telecom companies, reports PC World. There were 88,000... More »

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Bank of America • identity theft • credit card • Sprint • AT&T

Lobbyists Pack Ethics Crusader McCain's Staff

Forget Iseman: Senior advisers represent major corporations

Feb 22, 08 8:00 PM CST
(Newser) - Vicki Iseman is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to John McCain’s associations with lobbyists, the Washington Post reports. McCain targets special interests, but his campaign manager and top advisers are or have been lobbyists representing some of the country’s biggest corporations. Top adviser Charles... More »

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John McCain • General Motors • lobbyists • AT&T • Vicki Iseman • blackout • JPMorgan Chase

T-Mobile Launching
Net Phone Price War

New plan follows hard on news of wireless price war

Feb 21, 08 3:00 PM CST
(Newser) - T-Mobile is giving an extra push to the millions contemplating ditching their landlines. The low-cost wireless carrier is launching a new dirt-cheap VoIP service, which lets T-Mobile customers hook up traditional phones to an Internet router and make unlimited local and long distance calls for $10 a month, the More »

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Vonage • Verizon • VoIP • telecom industry • telecommunications • Internet phone • AT&T • T-Mobile

Sprint May
Go Lower
Than $99.99

Mobile provider expected to undercut flat-rate calling plans

Feb 20, 08 10:42 PM CST
(Newser) - With both AT&T and Verizon unveiling $99.99 flat-rate unlimited calling plans this week, Sprint's is expected to undercut its rivals by up to 40%, plunging the wireless industry headlong into a price war. Sprint isn't telling yet, but analysts predict it will offer unlimited calling for roughly $60... More »

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Verizon • price war • Sprint Nextel • wireless industry • AT&T • unlimited calling plans

Cell Carriers Roll Out Unlimited Calls for $100/Month

Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile get with the program

Feb 20, 08 11:45 AM CST
(Newser) - Cell phone users tired of rationing their minutes have a new alternative—unlimited calling plans for $99.99 a month. Verizon Wireless yesterday introduced a nationwide plan with no domestic roaming or long-distance fees, AP reports. AT&T quickly announced a matching plan, and T-Mobile execs say they’ll unveil... More »

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cell phones • Verizon • cell phone industry • Sprint • texting • AT&T • T-Mobile • cell phone plans • unlimited calling plans

Microsoft Talks Tough; Proxy Battle Likely

Gates says Yahoo should 'take a hard look' at $41.6B bid

Feb 20, 08 9:53 AM CST
(Newser) - Microsoft, at loggerheads with Yahoo over its $41.6-billion offer for the popular web portal, is talking tough, threatening a proxy battle to unseat Yahoo’s reticent board of directors, reports the Wall Street Journal. But even a win, which experts say would be relatively cheap to achieve, could cost... More »

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Yahoo • Microsoft • MySpace • Bill Gates • Jerry Yang • acquisition • News Corp • AT&T • proxy battle

Google's Juicy Addiction: Cheap Electric

Not-so-green tech giants show
insatiable appetite for power

Feb 18, 08 5:04 PM CST
(Newser) - No industrial smokestacks rise from that cute Google logo, but each click of the search button takes an environmental toll, Harper's reports. Google and its competitors are guzzling electricity to power ever-larger server complexes, and a renewable-energy initiative is more about making amends than benevolence. A new taxpayer-subsidized Google center... More »

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Google • Microsoft • nuclear power • data centers • fossil fuel • electricity • renewable energy • computer servers • AT&T • tech giants • environmental impact • industrial pollution

iPhone Runners Beat Apple
to Beijing

Official release is
TBA; smugglers get $600 for imports

Feb 18, 08 3:50 PM CST
(Newser) - Even as Apple toils to build exclusive deals with local phone companies and gradually release iPhones abroad, smugglers aren’t holding their breath, and the device is already taking China by storm. As many as one in three iPhones sold last year was unlocked and reprogrammed, the New York Times... More »

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China • iPhone • Apple • smuggler • AT&T

25% of iPhones Get Unlocked

Gray market Apple handsets getting reconfigured globally

Feb 13, 08 9:38 AM CST
(Newser) - The worldwide demand for the iPhone is creating a growing gray market where the phones are bought and sold outside of Apple’s restrictions, BusinessWeek reports. The devices are supposed to operate only through cell phone carriers who have contracts with Apple. But as many as 1 million iPhones, or... More »

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iPhone • Apple • cell phone industry • unlock iPhone • AT&T

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