Verizon Communications News

More than 1,200 nonprofit groups in New Jersey received nearly $3 million from the Verizon Foundation in 2009, enabling recipient organizations to improve literacy skills, enhance educational opportunities for children, and assist domestic violence survivors.

Fibre-optic cable maker's CFO confident on long-term potential of business. Corning Inc.

CURRENT Group and Verizon Announce Joint Smart Grid Offering to Help Improve Efficiency and Reliability of the Electric Distribution Grid Electric utilities can more quickly adopt smart grid capabilities by combining intelligent distributed sensing from CURRENT Group with an Internet Protocol-based solution from Verizon.

The Verizon Foundation has awarded $25,000 to the Rhode Island Network for Educational Technology to continue its collaboration with the Rhode Island Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

Judging from the turnout at its scheduled community meeting, Verizon Communications has successfully completed its upgrade of the troubled telephone system in the Ettersburg and Wilder Ridge area and is fully committed to continuing improvements to its service in Southern Humboldt.

NEW YORK - Verizon Communications Inc. said Thursday that it has named a former U.S. secretary of transportation who served under President Bill Clinton to its board.

The new logo for Comcast's TV, Internet and phone services. The company announced today that the new name will be premiered next week.

Today: AT&T is likely to keep its exclusive iPhone rights through 2011, Credit Suisse analysts say.

Verizon will use MPLS to provide Eurofins with a unified, IP-based network Verizon Private IP -- that can support VoIP as well as unified communications to boost collaboration and productivity.

Epix, the pay TV channel owned by three Hollywood studios, said Thursday it would be offered to cable customers of Charter Communications Inc.

A Credit Suisse analyst downgraded Verizon Communications Inc. Thursday and said he no longer believes rival AT&T Inc.

A series of online workshops for parents and teachers, created by PBS Frontline in conjunction with its innovative documentary, " Digital Nation ," are now available at Verizon Thinkfinity .

Time Warner Cable Inc. reported a profit for the fourth quarter Thursday but the economy was still weighing on its customers, who cut back on their subscriptions of premium movie channels and ordered fewer videos on demand.

Verizon Wireless said on Wednesday that in March it would start selling its second Motorola Inc phone based on Google Inc's Android software.

Verizon is ranked No. 4 on Training magazine's latest Top 125 list of companies that have the best training programs for their employees.

The Family Protection and Legal Assistance Law Clinic at the University of California Davis has received $60,000 from the Verizon Foundation .

A top Senate Democrat is asking 30 leading technology, Internet and communications companies to provide detailed descriptions of their operations and human rights practices in China.

Leap Wireless International Inc. climbed the most in almost 14 months in Nasdaq trading after the Wall Street Journal said the mobile-phone company hired advisers to look into a sale.

Schools and nonprofit organizations throughout New York received more than 10,700 free children's books through the Verizon Foundation's recent Season's Readings campaign.

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