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The spin might say AT&T did a good job of cutting costs this past quarter, but there’s no hiding the tough road ahead as Ma Bell remakes itself. Buried inside Thursday’s earnings call were hints of how hard that immediate task is, as AT&T continues to lose landlines at a fast clip while struggling to [...]

EarthLink says that its home city of Atlanta has chosen it to build, own and operate a city-wide Wi-Fi network. I should hope so. Earthlink says the contract is not finalized, and that ‘every city is different’ in how the process gets completed.

Having spent nearly $1.65 billion to buy YouTube, it doesn’t make much sense for Google to continue Google Video in its current form. So they are planning to turn that property into a search engine for video clips anywhere. These are first signs of an integration and there are more subtle moves the company is [...]

Nokia’s financial report card for the fourth quarter 2006 shows that the Finnish giant posted higher revenues ($15.22 billion), higher earnings ($1.65 billion), and higher share of the global handset business (35.2 %.)
Nokia’s margins declined a fraction, and so did the average selling price of their phones, about to 89 Euros. You can correlate [...]

Open-source IP PBXs were supposed to target the incumbent telephony world’s lunch. But right now the Asterisk community finds itself in a food fight over the free, small-installation market, between upstart Fonality and the house of Asterisk itself, Digium.
The two well-funded companies have been in a constant state of bickering. The fight over the open [...]

Magyar Telekom of Hungary, Slovak Telecom of Slovakia and Beijing Netcom of China are the latest telecoms to sign-up for Microsoft’s IPTV platform, bringing the total to 17 phone operators using Microsoft’s platform to deliver IPTV. One question: how much revenue has Microsoft brought in from IPTV vs what it has spent?