Verizon Communications News

Enough. I've had it with people and their smartphones, iPads, Kindles or whatever who are interrupting my experiences at the movies, during a play, or while dining at restaurants.

Dish Network Corp. and the combination of CBS, Fox and NBC are setting up a court battle over AutoHop, a new feature for Dish's Hopper HD-DVR that skips commercials captured by PrimeTime Anytime, a service that automatically records the primetime slate of the four major broadcasters.

The National Labor Relation Board's Region 2 has authorized the issuance of a complaint against Verizon Communications for its actions in disciplining and firing workers following the two-week strike by union members last August.

Verizon's pending marketing deal with cable companies is under fire from U.S. Sen.

The Cable Show -- Comcast Corp. hopes to give its residential home service a shot in the arm with a set of new mobility features, including one that lets customers place free outbound phone calls using Wi-Fi-connected devices, including smartphones, tablets and PCs.

Verizon , the New York-based telecommunications company, is the second largest fixed telephony provider in the United States and is comprised of several divisions of varying profitability and growth opportunities.

In a sign of the growing importance of mobile for large corporations' efforts to connect with consumers and drive sales, seven of the top 10 brands in a new ranking of the world's most valuable brands are technology companies and telecommunications providers.

SINGAPORE, May 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon Singapore has been awarded the BCA Green Mark Gold Award in recognition of the eco-friendly design and sustainable best practices of the company's Singapore office.

Like the Washington equivalent of Newton's Third Law, the letter from Senate Antitrust Subcommittee Chairman Herb Kohl to the FCC and DOJ Thursday with concerns about the Verizon-SpectrumCo spectrum sale was followed by an equal and opposite reaction from the same subcommittee's ranking Republican, Mike Lee.

Verizon may have made it known that it does not want to bring its Fiber to the Premises -based FiOS outside of towns and cities where it has an existing service agreement in place, but a group of mayors in upstate New York charge the telco is deliberately ignoring their communities.

Hurricane Season 2012 is set to begin on June 1, and Verizon Wireless encourages Floridians to be ready with an emergency communication plan.

A couple of days ago it was rumored that the Verizon Galaxy Nexus Android 4.0.4 update was expected to arrive on the day itself.

Verizon Wireless is down a little less than one percent to be trading at $41.04 early on Wednesday.

Recognizing that a quinceanera symbolizes one of the most important coming-of-age traditions for Latino teens and their families, Verizon is again offering a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to celebrate this memorable moment with an all-expenses-paid party and college scholarship through its My Fabulous Quince essay contest.

Two Verizon Communications Inc. subsidiaries have agreed to pay the Commonwealth of Massachusetts more than $317,000 to resolve allegations they didn't pay fully into the state's unemployment trust fund.

Pianist Glenn Gould notably recorded Bach's "Goldberg Variations" early in his career in 1955.

May 23 - Fitch Ratings has affirmed Verizon Communications Inc.'s Issuer Default Ratings and debt ratings as follows: --Long-term IDR at 'A'; --Senior unsecured debt at 'A'; --Short-term IDR at 'F1'; --Commercial paper at 'F1'. The Rating Outlook is Stable.

Verizon Wireless has taken the wraps off of a new Android app that will allow customers to find and view videos from a plethora of different sources and watch them directly from their mobile device.

A project at UC Santa Barbara that has area high school students conducting original research on language in their communities will expand to include two partner schools and an Upward Bound program thanks to a $30,000 grant from the Verizon Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Verizon Communications.

Bargain Hunter: Harajuku Mini at Target, Soups at Mimi's Cafe benefit hunger relief, Lamps Plus sells online, solar-system leasing, used book sale in Woodland Hills, NEW YORK -- Verizon Wireless plans to launch a mobile video streaming application later this month with content from everybody from Comcast to Netflix as he mobile provider looks to ... (more)