Telecom

Nortel To Zero? (NT)

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Will CEO Mike Zafirovski's turnaround end in bankruptcy? There's "a distinct possibility down the road," says RBC. Read >

ISPs To Speed Up P2P Transfers

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Potentially good news for downloaders, Internet providers, and peer-to-peer companies. Read >

Nortel's Turnaround Still Far From Finished (NT)

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Three years after CEO Mike Zafirovski took over, the Canadian network gear maker is still restructuring. Read >

Cable Cos Winning Broadband War: Beating Telcos 2-to-1 For New Subs

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Not as dominant as this spring, but still a sound beating. Read >

Obama CTO Search Gets Help

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Julius Genachowski, former IAC exec and founder of Rock Creek Ventures, joins Obama's transition team. Read >

AT&T Buys Wayport, Adds 10,000 Wi-Fi Hotspots

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AT&T will spend $275 million to bulk up its wi-fi business. Read >

Why Take Your Startup 'All-Cloud'? A Founder Explains

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Why file sharing startup Drop.io now runs 100% on Amazon Web Services. Read >

Time Warner Cable Broadband Lone Q3 Bright Spot, 'Dramatic Slowdown' In October

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Time Warner Cable says its advertising business is performing below expectations, too. Read >

Today's Other Big Vote: FCC To Decide On 'Wi-Fi On Steroids'

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The FCC might open up more airwaves for Internet devices today; a plan pushed by Google and Microsoft. Read >

Akamai Beats Q3, Guidance Weak, Stock Jumps (AKAM)

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Could have been worse -- Akamai jumps 12% after hours. Read >

Comcast Broadband Subscriber Growth Up, Ad Revenue Down (CMCSA)

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Comcast takes the souring economy mostly in stride and sticks by its full-year forecasts. Read >

Ted "Series Of Tubes" Stevens Guilty. Re-Live His Finest Moment

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Re-watch the bits that made the Alaska senator famous, courtesy Viacom and Jon Stewart. Read >

Telco Consolidation Continues: CenturyTel Gets Embarq In $11.6 Billion Deal

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How to survive in a declining industry? Band together and hold on tight. Read >

Verizon Q3 Strong, Now 7th-Biggest U.S. Cable TV Provider

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The economy didn't hurt telco giant Verizon much during Q3, and CEO Ivan Seidenberg says his $28 billion purchase of Alltel is still on track. Read >

Rackspace Buys Cloud Computing Firms For Up To $28 Million (RAX)

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The hosting company buys Slicehost and Jungle Disk to go after Amazon Web Services. Read >

AT&T's Broadband Growth Recovers, But Cable Should Still Dominate Market

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Phone companies are rolling out faster, fiber-based broadband services to compete with the cable industry. But for now, cable should continue to beat the pants off DSL. Read >

Apple's iPhone Boosts AT&T's Wireless Business, But Whacks Profits

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AT&T says it activated 2.4 million iPhones last quarter -- great customers who sign long-term deals and spend a lot of money on service. But subsidizing those phones costs a lot of money, and as a result, AT&T lowered its full-year margin expectations. Read >

The Muni Wi-Fi Revolution That Never Happened: Portland Antennas Now Fancy Bird Shelters

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The sad state of muni wi-fi in Portland: The city is letting 600 abandoned antennas collect dust until next April, when they'll probably take them down. Read >

Verizon Loses Cox VoIP Patent Suit: Good News For Time Warner, Cablevision

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Verizon squeezed a lot of money and life out of Internet phone provider Vonage last year. No such luck (so far) with the cable industry. Read >

Sprint Local-Phone Spinoff Embarq: Can't Sell Ourselves In This Credit Crunch

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It's a pretty lousy time to be in the local phone business anyway -- but the credit market isn't helping phone companies with their best hope for survival: Consolidation. Read >

Introducing The Revolutionary iPhone 2000 Series!

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Travel back in time with us to 2001, and see what the iPhone looked like before Steve Jobs got his hands on it. Read >

Malone's Liberty In 'Limited Discussions' For AOL Dialup Biz; Where's EarthLink?

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Liberty's TWX-stock-for-AOL-dialup swap could make sense for both companies, but it doesn't move along much-needed consolidation in the dialup business. Read >

Sprint's WiMax: Comcast Who? We'll Choke BitTorrent If We Want To

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Comcast just went through hell with the FCC because it was slowing down its customers' BitTorrent transfers. So will the FCC let Sprint do the same thing for high-speed WiMax subscribers? Read >

Cisco Buys Jabber, Hopes Employees Will Like Using Corporate IM

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Still unclear: Once your Cisco office phones are hooked up to whizbang "unified communications" systems, will normal people use them? Read >

Amazon's (AMZN) CDN Won't Kill Akamai (AKAM), Limelight (LLNW)

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Amazon's simple new CDN won't take any of Akamai or Limelight's big media or enterprise customers yet. But it's great news for startups -- and should be a big headache for small CDNs. Read >

WiFi Sharing Network Fon Hits A Million Users, But Hurdles Remain

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As U.S. Internet providers start imposing download caps, speed limits, and overage charges, who wants to share their broadband connection with strangers? Read >

Cable-Telco Price War Brewing As Broadband Growth Tanks

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Cheaper DSL might help phone companies hold onto some of their customers for now. But it won't make up for old, slower networks forever. Read >

Comcast Putting Bandwidth Hogs On A Diet In October (CMCSA)

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Comcast bandwidth gluttons won't just have their Internet connections slowed down -- they'll reportedly have to pay overage charges, too. Read >

Visual Voicemail Inventor Strikes Again, Sues Google, Verizon, Others

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Patent troll or visionary inventor? Read >

Bogus Study Wants You To Think Your Internet Connection Is Even Slower Than It Is

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Lies, damn lies, and Internet broadband speed studies. Read >