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Matsushita restructures cell phone unit
Company will stop producing current-generation mobile phones for overseas markets and cut more than 1,000 related jobs.
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Prodigy up for sale
Parent SBC, now known as AT&T, hopes to close the sale of the Net's oldest brand by the end of March 2006.
December 9, 2005, 4:19 PM PST
Alltel to spin off local-phone unit
Rural phone and wireless company also will merge with Valor Communications in $9.1 billion deal.
December 9, 2005, 6:25 AM PST
Mobile WiMax gets green light
IEEE approves the 802.16e standard. Product and interoperability testing will begin in the first quarter of 2006.
December 8, 2005, 2:39 PM PST
Verizon Wireless to deliver CBS to phones
Carrier will send clips of "CSI," "Survivor" and "Late Show with David Letterman" to mobile phones.
December 8, 2005, 5:36 AM PST
Virgin Mobile board rejects NTL offer
Board rejects $1.42 billion takeover approach, saying it undervalues the company.
December 7, 2005, 7:10 PM PST
Inmarsat beams about satellite broadband
British company says its Broadband Global Area Network will deliver data speeds of up to 492kbps anywhere on the planet.
December 7, 2005, 5:38 AM PST
Gartner's advice: Halt BlackBerry deployments
U.S. operations could be shut down soon, analyst firm warns. Best to wait "until RIM's legal position is clarified."
December 7, 2005, 5:03 AM PST
Cisco to speed up applications
Cisco Systems plans to embed new technology in networking gear to accelerate software use on corporate networks.
December 6, 2005, 1:52 PM PST
Cingular launches 3G network
update Its BroadbandConnect service will enable mobile users to access high-speed Internet on the road.
December 6, 2005, 8:46 AM PST
Verizon to cut managers' pensions
Ericsson signs key managed-services deal in U.K.
Time Warner Cable hits million-phone milestone
Cisco to enable advanced wireless services
Deep discounts on IP telephony
WiBro to get a workout at Turin Olympics
FIFA: Adidas 'smart ball' not ready for World Cup
At phone giants, jobs may not last a lifetime
Verizon may shed directory division
Branson in talks to sell Virgin Mobile stake
Home network 2.0: Synchronized computing
Cingular debuts push-to-talk feature
AT&T backs a la carte TV channels
Nokia expects continuing mobile-market growth
Nortel chief makes room for new blood
Net outage hits Brits
Skype offers Web video phone-calling feature
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