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Qwest is getting ready to take another run at MCI, and this time it has the support of a lot of people, reports The Wall Street Journal. “Qwest officials last night still were working on a modified proposal, which is expected to be announced today or tomorrow,” the Journal says. Throwing in their lot with [...]

Donald Trump used to say, any publicity is good publicity. Hope Paris Hilton agrees, who seems to be having a terrible week. Her Sidekick Hacked, her voice mail hacked and now there is a mobile virus going around that promises naked videos of Hilton, except it leaves your phone naked. This virus is called Sober.K [...]

File this one under the category - ruminations of an idle mind! Reuters reports that Apple might be looking at gobbling up TiVo. Of course this is based on comments from an analyst I have never heard of before. “What we hear on the street is that Apple is interested in their business and [...]

Figuring out people’s passwords for hackers is not very difficult, especially is someone is as infamous as Paris Hilton. There are many theories doing the rounds on the Internet about how her phone got hacked. Here is how it might have happened:
Like many online service providers, T-Mobile.com requires users to answer a “secret question” [...]

Hedge Funds, smelling a quick kill are moving into MCI, and buying up stock, hoping that Qwest will prevail and offer some premium for the limping long distance giant. The Wall Street Journal reports that hedge fund types are betting that at worst, Verizon will have to up its offer to meet Qwest bid. Some [...]

A long time ago, I wrote about a company called IPVerse, which was an early player in the softswitch market. The telecom bust killed the company, but it was reborn again as Nextverse and then merged with a division of Israeli telecom giant, ECI Telecom. The combined company became Veraz Networks. Somehow it hung in, [...]