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  • IBM buys Sterling Commerce from AT&T

    IBM is buying AT&T subsidiary Sterling Commerce, maker of business-to-business data integration software, for about US$1.4 billion in cash, the companies have announced.

  • AT&T blocks image-sharing site

    AT&T on Sunday blocked sections of the popular image-based bulletin board, adding more fuel to the debate over network neutrality.

  • Pernod Ricard signs AT&T for ANZ data

    Wine and spirits company Pernod Ricard Pacific has chosen AT&T to provide its data communications and network services in Australia and New Zealand.

  • Report: DOJ reviewing US telecom deals with handset makers

    The U.S. Department of Justice has begun to look into the way that large operators form exclusivity agreements for popular handsets over concerns that the practice is anticompetitive, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal citing unnamed people familiar with the matter.

  • iPhone 3GS costs Apple US$179 to make, says iSuppli

    Even though it has twice the storage space of last year's model, Apple's new 16GB iPhone 3GS costs the company less than 3% more to make than 2008's lowest-priced iPhone 3G, according to a tear-down analysis published today by iSuppli.

  • A perfect storm of tech financials

    With IT bellwethers like IBM, Microsoft, Advanced Micro Devices, AT&T and Apple reporting earnings results for the worst quarter for IT since the dot-com bust, and Oracle announcing it will buy Sun Microsystems, this has been one of the most significant weeks of the decade for IT investors.

  • New iPhone lawsuit seeks $3.4B in damages

    A class-action lawsuit targeting Apple and AT&T, filed last week in federal court, accuses the companies of illegally conspiring to tie iPhone customers to the telecom company's wireless network.

  • AT&T and Hollywood fight piracy

    According to a story in the Los Angeles Times, AT&T is teaming with film studios and recording companies to stop pirated material travelling over its network.

  • Wiretapping suit against AT&T can go forward

    A federal judge has denied motions by the US government and AT&T to stop a lawsuit over alleged participation by the carrier in an illegal wiretapping program by the US National Security Agency (NSA).

  • US warns AT&T spy charge could help terrorists

    A suit against AT&T Corp. over alleged cooperation with government wiretapping should be dismissed because hearing it would mean exposing information that would help Al-Qaeda, the U.S. Department of Justice argued Friday in federal court in San Francisco.

  • Fast broadband: hype vs reality gap remains

    The rebirth of AT&T and its sudden expansion by gobbling up BellSouth, has again propelled next-generation broadband services to the front page of The Wall Street Journal. And it is not just DSL and cable vendors vying for supremacy. Verizon is investing heavily in fibre to the home (FTTH)) to boost bandwidth. At the same time, other companies are poised to leverage next-generation IEEE 802.16 WiMAX wireless to deliver metropolitan bandwidth without ditch-digging. Ultimately, we’ll choose from among them — but on what basis?

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