After its decision of $67 billion takeover of Bell South which is expected to take place next year, AT&T Inc. plans to chop 10,000 jobs. The jobs will be evaporated over the phase of three years. The largest U.S. telecom company, AT&T presently employs around 317,000 employees which include Cingular Wireless LLC a part of [...]
Business is cut throat. AT&T is overcharging U.S soldiers fighting in Iraq. American soldiers are calling home and At&T is charging them more. Bruce Stuart so rightly says Bruce Stewart writes: It’s mind-boggling to me that the execs at AT&T don’t realize that the poison PR they could suffer over this is not even close [...]
Wired News has posted a 29-page document on its website claiming that AT&T has clandestinely installed equipment to help the National Security Agency spy on AT&T customers. The document containing the detailed aspects of AT&T’s alleged involvement in the National Security Agency’s domestic wiretap maneuver has been produced in a San Francisco courthouse. However, AT&T [...]
A federal judge has turned down the request of the Director of Intelligence John Negroponte and other government officials that he dismiss the case against AT&T, which alleges that the firm illegally allowed the government to monitor phone conversations and email communications. AT&T had in late April moved the court to dismiss the lawsuit and [...]
AT&T Inc.’s $86 billion takeover deal with BellSouth Corp. ran into troubled waters as the Republican commissioner, Robert McDowell, announced to refrain from voting citing the ground of ethical standards. Robert McDowell said that ethics considerations prohibit him from participating in the deal consequently leaves the deadlock over the matter intact. McDowell’s decision is consistent [...]
AT&T Inc.’s $86 billion takeover deal with BellSouth Corp. ran into troubled waters as the Republican commissioner, Robert McDowell, announced to refrain from voting citing the ground of ethical standards. Robert McDowell said that ethics considerations prohibit him from participating in the deal consequently leaves the deadlock over the matter intact. McDowell’s decision is consistent [...]
Mobile phone operators such as Verizon, Sprint and Cingular along with the latest entrant AT&T are all set to roll out advertising on mobile phones. To start with the advertisements will be rolled out on an experimental basis. However, advertisements on mobile screen are likely to be very common by next year. People are normally [...]
A 6-year-old legal battle between software giant Microsoft and the leading telephone company AT&T over patent infringements has now moved to the US Supreme Court. The lawsuit was filed by AT&T which is seeking the software company to pay fines for patent infringing software assembled in other countries. Microsoft has already acknowledged that it violated [...]
A U.S. federal jury has ruled that Microsoft Corp. infringed two audio patents held by Alcatel-Lucent and it must pay $1.52 billion in damages. Interestingly, if the verdict would be upheld on appeal, that would be marked as the largest patent judgment on record. However, Microsoft has said the verdict is unsupported by the law [...]
Yahoo and AT&T has issued a joint release amid speculation today by the Wall Street Journal and others about the value of their partnership which impacted Yahoo as their stock price slipped over 5 percent to put a check on speculations. Following the report speculation was high that a setback in a lucrative partnership with [...]
