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Nortel To Zero? (NT)
Will CEO Mike Zafirovski's turnaround end in bankruptcy? There's "a distinct possibility down the road," says RBC.
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ISPs To Speed Up P2P Transfers
Potentially good news for downloaders, Internet providers, and peer-to-peer companies.
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Nortel's Turnaround Still Far From Finished (NT)
Three years after CEO Mike Zafirovski took over, the Canadian network gear maker is still restructuring.
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Cable Cos Winning Broadband War: Beating Telcos 2-to-1 For New Subs
Not as dominant as this spring, but still a sound beating.
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Obama CTO Search Gets Help
Julius Genachowski, former IAC exec and founder of Rock Creek Ventures, joins Obama's transition team.
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AT&T Buys Wayport, Adds 10,000 Wi-Fi Hotspots
AT&T will spend $275 million to bulk up its wi-fi business.
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Why Take Your Startup 'All-Cloud'? A Founder Explains
Why file sharing startup Drop.io now runs 100% on Amazon Web Services.
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Time Warner Cable Broadband Lone Q3 Bright Spot, 'Dramatic Slowdown' In October
Time Warner Cable says its advertising business is performing below expectations, too.
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Today's Other Big Vote: FCC To Decide On 'Wi-Fi On Steroids'
The FCC might open up more airwaves for Internet devices today; a plan pushed by Google and Microsoft.
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Akamai Beats Q3, Guidance Weak, Stock Jumps (AKAM)
Could have been worse -- Akamai jumps 12% after hours.
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Comcast Broadband Subscriber Growth Up, Ad Revenue Down (CMCSA)
Comcast takes the souring economy mostly in stride and sticks by its full-year forecasts.
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Ted "Series Of Tubes" Stevens Guilty. Re-Live His Finest Moment
Re-watch the bits that made the Alaska senator famous, courtesy Viacom and Jon Stewart.
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Telco Consolidation Continues: CenturyTel Gets Embarq In $11.6 Billion Deal
How to survive in a declining industry? Band together and hold on tight.
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Verizon Q3 Strong, Now 7th-Biggest U.S. Cable TV Provider
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.
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Rackspace Buys Cloud Computing Firms For Up To $28 Million (RAX)
The hosting company buys Slicehost and Jungle Disk to go after Amazon Web Services.
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AT&T's Broadband Growth Recovers, But Cable Should Still Dominate Market
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.
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Apple's iPhone Boosts AT&T's Wireless Business, But Whacks Profits
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.
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The Muni Wi-Fi Revolution That Never Happened: Portland Antennas Now Fancy Bird Shelters
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.
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Verizon Loses Cox VoIP Patent Suit: Good News For Time Warner, Cablevision
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.
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Sprint Local-Phone Spinoff Embarq: Can't Sell Ourselves In This Credit Crunch
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.
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Introducing The Revolutionary iPhone 2000 Series!
Travel back in time with us to 2001, and see what the iPhone looked like before Steve Jobs got his hands on it.
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Malone's Liberty In 'Limited Discussions' For AOL Dialup Biz; Where's EarthLink?
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.
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Sprint's WiMax: Comcast Who? We'll Choke BitTorrent If We Want To
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?
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Cisco Buys Jabber, Hopes Employees Will Like Using Corporate IM
Still unclear: Once your Cisco office phones are hooked up to whizbang "unified communications" systems, will normal people use them?
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Amazon's (AMZN) CDN Won't Kill Akamai (AKAM), Limelight (LLNW)
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.
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WiFi Sharing Network Fon Hits A Million Users, But Hurdles Remain
As U.S. Internet providers start imposing download caps, speed limits, and overage charges, who wants to share their broadband connection with strangers?
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Cable-Telco Price War Brewing As Broadband Growth Tanks
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.
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Comcast Putting Bandwidth Hogs On A Diet In October (CMCSA)
Comcast bandwidth gluttons won't just have their Internet connections slowed down -- they'll reportedly have to pay overage charges, too.
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Visual Voicemail Inventor Strikes Again, Sues Google, Verizon, Others
Patent troll or visionary inventor?
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Bogus Study Wants You To Think Your Internet Connection Is Even Slower Than It Is
Lies, damn lies, and Internet broadband speed studies.
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