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Adding mobile apps to ride-sharing options will open up the services to all those car poolers that just don’t want to plan in advance. On the other hand, maybe that’s not such a good thing. Read more »

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CenturyTel said today it would buy Qwest Communications in a deal valued at $22.4 billion, continuing the consolidation of rural telephone companies and ending speculation of whether Qwest would sell itself. CenturyTel will spend $10.3 billion buying Qwest stock and will assume $11.8 billion in debt. Read more »

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Windstream Corp., a rural telecom operator, has agreed to acquire a fourth company in an effort to beat rivals, buy growth and avoid being telecom roadkill. Spending is only half the battle as consumers opt for wireless services. Read more »

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CenturyTel and Embarq today announced the completion of their $11.6 billion merger, which results in a phone company that will serve 7.5 million customers in 33 states. The combined company will now be known as CenturyLink — and the aging copper-based DSL lines it offers to […] Read more »

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One of the big, new features of the iPhone is its ability to tether. BlackBerrys have had this ability for a while, so below I have outlined how to tether your BlackBerry with your Mac to use your Internet connection to browse the web with your […] Read more »

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NebuAd, the company that planned to enable Internet Service Providers to offer behavioral advertising based on a person’s web surfing history, has shut its doors, according to MediaPost, which cites court documents. The controversial service, which is akin to Phorm in the UK, had conducted advertising […] Read more »

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A group of seven investment bodies, including the New York City Pension Fund, have teamed up in an effort to get major U.S. Internet service providers to detail their privacy practices through the power of the shareholder resolution. As powers go, shareholder resolutions are far more about […] Read more »

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Alleged serial killer Henry “The Overkiller” Graham sits on death row partaking of his last meal (a Hot Pocket) and awaiting his just deserts. All too soon, he’s led to the room where he’ll pay for his crimes — by being married off to his groupie-turned-fiancee […] Read more »

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Comedy Central Orders Secret Girlfriend Pilot; Freemantle Media’s first-person web show features hot girls talking to the camera; pilot will run just 11 minutes. (Broadcasting & Cable) CenturyTel to Buy Sprint Spin-off Embarq; deal worth $11.6 billion, combined company would have 400,000 video subscribers. (DSLReports) TV […] Read more »

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After a few weeks of seeking a suitor, Embarq, the landline unit spun off from Sprint in 2006, has enticed CenturyTel into paying $5.8 billion in stock, and assuming $5.8 billion in debt for the nation’s fourth largest local exchange carrier. Read more »

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For any of us who recognize that personal privacy on the web is an illusion, the response to a Congressional inquiry asking how various ISPs and online portals target advertising and collect data will come as no surprise. Aside from the use of deep-packet inspection technology […] Read more »

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Charter Communications this morning backed off plans to deploy an advertising system that had stirred privacy fears about the way user data was intercepted and anger over an inability to truly opt out of the program. The cable provider said back in May that it was […] Read more »

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[qi:051] The go-go days for broadband in the U.S. seem to be over, as evidenced by the less-than-stellar numbers posted by the big broadband providers for the most recent quarter, especially Comcast (CMCSA) and Time Warner Cable (TWC). The DSL providers are also facing challenging times, […] Read more »