Taking a very giant leap, AT&T has acquired T-Mobile USA for a whopping $39 billion from Deutsche Telekom. Along with acquiring approximately 8% of AT&T, Deutsche Telekom will also be gaining a seat on AT&T’s board of directors.
As charities and the world leaders are providing every possible help to the earthquake-struck Japan, United States telephone carriers are offering free calls to Japan in response to the unfolding crisis, along with some cable providers.
AT&T is offering free calls and texts to Japan for both wireless and wired customers between March 11 and March 31.
Bloomberg recently reported that Microsoft has finally decided to put an official end to its Zune media player line. Microsoft will not be putting out any new hardware in the line, and will be henceforward focusing on integrating Zune functionality for smartphones.
The days of unlimited broadband may be limited in the United States, and it’s not about the wireless this time -- AT&T says it will implement a 150GB monthly cap on landline DSL customers and a 250GB cap on subscribers to U-Verse high speed internet starting on May 2nd.
Intel will be revealing some of the final details of "Light Peak", a transmission technology designed by them that promises to bring 10-gigabit-per-second speeds for data transfers to and from external devices.
As enterprises evolve their physical security strategies from analog to digital surveillance, Allied Telesis Inc., a global provider of secure IP/Ethernet switching solutions and an industry leader in the deployment of converged multi-play networks, announced today its enhanced IP Surveillance solution.
Incepted from the Mouse 2.0 plan carried out by Microsoft Research and the Applied Sciences Group, the new Touch Mouse allows user to click, flick, scroll and swipe.
When iPad was launched sometime this year, it was great news for magazine publishers as they saw it as a channel to tackle declining subscriptions with this innovative new source.
It seems like $7.99 – $9.99 is the magic price for streaming content these days. Both Netflix (movies) and Hulu (TV) recently announced unlimited plans for $7.99 and now OnLive, their video game equivalent, is offering unlimited use of its service for a monthly fee of $9.99.