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9 hrs ago | Patch.com

Lakewood Students Learn Texting Can Wait

Lakewood High School students got a wake-up call during homeroom this week. "People will tell you over and over again, 'It's not your fault,' buta€¦ having a Highway Patrol officer write in a report that a text message sent at 12:05 is the reason that she is dead, is not something that will ever go away." Those are the words of Amanda Umscheid of ... (more)

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Related Topix: Education Etc., AT&T, Cable & Satellite, Telecom, Lakewood, OH, Family, Teenagers

14 hrs ago | Customer Interaction Solutions

Tech Analyst Jeff Kagan on AT&T Having Fastest 4G LTE Wireless Internet

Both PC World and their TechHive news site conducted a study, and on May 22, 2013 both said AT&T Mobility 4G LTE was named the fastest Internet service among the top four wireless carriers, AT&T Mobility, Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile. Wireless analyst Jeff Kagan offers congratulations to AT&T and provides comment on this study.

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Related Topix: AT&T, Cable & Satellite, Telecom, Wireless, Emerging Technology, Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile, IT Services

18 hrs ago | Examiner.com

Cell phones for soldiers for Memorial Day weekend

This Memorial Day weekend - as we remember the men and women who have died while serving in the US military - there's a way you can support those troops still serving.

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Related Topix: Cell Phones, Cellphones, Electronics, AT&T, Cable & Satellite, Telecom

22 hrs ago | Amarillo.com

Statewide texting-while-driving ban dies

Amarillo, which bans all hand-held cellphone use while driving, will keep its tough ordinance for the next two years because a texting-while-driving ban the Texas Legislature considered is officially dead, the bill's author said.

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Related Topix: Amarillo, TX, Texas Government, Texas, Cable & Satellite, Telecom, Rick Perry, US Governors

Fri May 24, 2013

Government Executive

Get a Computer Science Degree for Just $7,000

Three years ago, Microsoft founder Bill Gates predicted that technology and the Internet would bring the cost of a college education down to $2,000 by 2015.

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Related Topix: Microsoft, Startups, Bill Gates, Cable & Satellite, Telecom, Georgia Tech

The Kansas City Star

Sprinta s wireless network fares poorly in test

Sseven girls from Heartland Elementary School in the Blue Valley School District, now mostly middle-schoolers at Harmony or Aubry Bend, for a few years had been competing in an international problem-solving educational program, Odyssey of the Mind.

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Related Topix: Wireless, Emerging Technology, Education Etc., Kansas City, MO, AT&T, Startups, Cable & Satellite, Telecom, Versant

Business Journal

Aio Wireless blitz in Central Florida: 30 stores up in first month

Aio Wireless is on a new-store blitz throughout Central Florida. The wireless service provider, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dallas-based AT&T Inc.

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Related Topix: Startups, Versant, Cable & Satellite, Telecom, Orlando, FL

Insider Monkey

Facebook Inc (FB) Pulls the Plug Across the Pond

The first real Facebook Inc Phone with Home pre-installed, the HTC First, has officially bombed .

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Related Topix: Cable & Satellite, Telecom, Google, Startups

Seeking Alpha

AT&T: Trading Below Its Intrinsic Value

AT&T Inc. is one of the most honored companies in the world . Recently, PCWorld/TechHive ranked the company's 4G LTE network as the fastest for a second consecutive year.

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Related Topix: Cable & Satellite, Telecom, Financial Markets, Verizon Communications, IT Services

ABC Action News

She says cell carrier let her down

Every time her cell phone rings, Terry Sapp runs out her back door and circles her yard.

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Related Topix: Cell Phones, Cellphones, Electronics, Cable & Satellite, Telecom

Thu May 23, 2013

Freshnews

Stream Data Centers Achieves LEED Gold Certification For New Richardson, Texas, Facility

Stream Data Centers , a national data center developer and operator, today announced it has been awarded LEED Gold Certification for its Private Data Center facility in Richardson, Texas, a suburb of Dallas.

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Related Topix: Energy, Richardson, TX, AT&T, Cable & Satellite, Telecom

Fox News

AT&T Imposes New Monthly Administrative Fee for Wireless Users

AT&T Inc. has added a new monthly administrative fee of 61 cents to the bills of all of its contract wireless lines as of May 1, a move that could bring in more than a half-billion dollars in annual revenue to the telecom giant.

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Related Topix: Cable & Satellite, Telecom, Business News

Austinist

Austin Pizza's Battle With AT&T

We've all at one point or another had to pick a fight with the telephone/cable company over something seemingly insignificant only for it to blow up.

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Related Topix: AT&T, Startups, Cable & Satellite, Telecom, Versant

Insider Monkey

AT&T Inc. (T): The Bulls' Case

The 4G LTE market is a competitive landscape, involving the biggest telecom companies in the US.

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Related Topix: Telecom, Cable & Satellite, Startups, Versant

AmericanBankingNews.com

AT&T's "Sector Perform" Rating Reaffirmed at RBC Capital

's stock had its "sector perform" rating reaffirmed by RBC Capital in a research note issued on Thursday, Stock Ratings Network reports.

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Related Topix: Startups, Cable & Satellite, Telecom, Versant

KXVO

New International Packages Deliver More Choice and Value

AT&T Welcomes New Packages to Its Leading International Services Portfolio: AT&T Cruise Ship and AT&T International Long Distance Messaging 1000 /PRNewswire/ -- Whether you're staying anchored close to home this summer or planning to set sail for a fun international adventure, AT&T is making it easier-and more affordable-to keep in touch with your ... (more)

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Related Topix: AT&T, Cable & Satellite, Telecom, Startups, Versant, Cell Phones, Cellphones, Electronics, Cruise Lines, Celebrity Cruises

PC Magazine

AT&T: We Won't Get Bashed By the 'Dumb Pipe'

LAS VEGASBig wireless carriers are terrified of the dumb pipe. The carriers' nightmare for years has been to be turned into simple ISPs, competing on cost and speed rather than on the extra services on which they pride themselves But AT&T has a plan, and the company's vice president of ecosystems and solutions, Laura Merling, is in charge of a big ... (more)

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Related Topix: Cable & Satellite, Telecom

Wed May 22, 2013

Light Reading

CTIA: T-Mobile Takes its Uncarrier Attitude to Work

CTIA -- T-Mobile is reinvigorating its focus on the enterprise, especially small and medium-sized businesses, with new rate plans, international roaming packages and an enterprise app store in the works.

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Related Topix: T-Mobile, Cable & Satellite, Telecom

EETimes

AT&T 4G LTE Available In Anderson

"Broadband technology is increasingly vital for economic success in today's economy, both for businesses and for individuals," said state Senator William O'Dell . "It helps create jobs and new educational opportunities, both of which are essential for keeping our economy moving and our area and State growing." to prosper, it is crucial that ... (more)

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Related Topix: Cable & Satellite, Telecom, Startups, Versant, Wireless, Science / Technology, Wi-Fi, Emerging Technology

Tue May 21, 2013

Business Journal

Austin's Pizza: Phone problems may kill business

J.D. Torian says his blood, sweat and tears for the past eight years have been invested in making Austin's Pizza a success and now with a sudden phone service problem, his livelihood and that of 225 employees is in jeopardy.

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Related Topix: Cable & Satellite, Telecom

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