Telecom News

TELUS network technician Matthew Stodola plucks debris from the banks of Ellis Creek on Saturday.

The Future of the Network and the History of the Computer - two keynotes that kicked off the conference, with Rene Obermann of Deutsche Telecom talking about a more open future for mobile networks, and George Dyson showing how the past of computing might point its way to the future.

Brian Dunn, president and chief executive officer of Best Buy Co. Inc., speaks during a Sprint Nextel Corp.

Matthew Key, former head of O2 in the UK, is gambling that he can make new digital and online ventures pay off for the Spanish telecoms firm Matthew Key's career has been marked by three big bets.

In Walter IsaacsonE1 4s biography of Steve Jobs, Isaacson describes the time that Jobs cold called Wendell Weeks, the CEO of Corning, Inc., toA learn about Gorilla Glass .

Last week's announcement that a $200 million broadband investment fund is in play courtesy of Gigabit Squared is part of a quiet trend of communities searching for new ways to fund broadband.

On Friday, Research in Motion Ltd. announced that its London-based head of global sales has stepped down.

Octogenarian Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing mapped out a succession plan for one of Asia's biggest family empires, ensuring a smoother transition for the Cheung Kong .

A recent Girl Scout Research Institute study showed that 74% of high school girls are interested in STEM.

It's Hewlett-Packard's turn to show off a bunch of juicy emails. They show Oracle executives badmouthing Sun hardware.

Becky Hernandez and Rosemary Hernandez, daughter and wife of Pedro Hernandez respectively, leave Manhattan Criminal Court in New York.

An analyst lowered his price target for Leap Wireless International Inc. on Friday because of tougher competition for the wireless carrier.

The failure of Astral Media shareholders to endorse a special $25-million premium to company founder Ian Greenberg doesn't constitute a failure, chairman Andre Bureau said Thursday.

A legal battle erupted between DISH Network and some of the major broadcast networks Thursday as the two sides traded lawsuits over the satellite distribution company's "Hopper" DVR, which threatens to bring down the television business model by allowing viewers to skip over commercials entirely.

Some of the most active companies traded Thursday on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the TSX Venture Exchange: Toronto Stock Exchange : Manulife Financial Corp.

Senate Antitrust Subcommittee chairman Herb Kohl outlined his many concerns about the Verizon purchase of advanced wireless spectrum from cable in a letter to the Federal Communications Commission and Justice Thursday, but stopped short of asking them to block the deal, as he had with the AT&T/T-Mobile merger.

Carlos Slim sees Europe's debt crisis as a "good moment" to apply his strategy of investing in times of turmoil, said the billionaire's son, America Movil SAB Co- Chairman Carlos Slim Domit.

Showtime said it will have a free preview weekend from June 15-17 in New York and Los Angeles targeted at Emmy voters, the first network to ever do so.

April 19: Microsoft Corp. says it shipped 1.4 million Xbox 360 consoles during the first three months of the year, about half of the 2.7 million shipped a year earlier.

People visit Google's stand at the National Retail Federation Annual Convention and Expo in New York January 16, 2012.