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Wireless giant AT&T is reportedly planning to scale back its SMS text-messaging packages to exactly one plan: the Messaging Unlimited plan for $20 per month. New users who do not wish to subscribe to that plan will be charged on a text-by-text basis at 20 cents per SMS and 30 cents per MMS. Star...

Wireless giant AT&T is reportedly planning to scale back its SMS text-messaging packages to exactly one plan: the Messaging Unlimited plan for $20 per month. New users who do not wish to subscribe to that plan will be charged on a text-by-text basis at 20 cents per SMS and 30 cents per MMS. Star...

A social network makes changes to its privacy policy. Shortly thereafter, users are shocked to see their names and photos appear in in-house ads. For example, an ad promoting the services of a local printer might include the faces of three "followers" of that particular company. Is this Facebook pri...

With one brief letter, the Federal Communications Commission has put a stop to any hopes that two pending AT&T deals -- its $1.9 billion purchase of spectrum licenses from Qualcomm and its proposed acquisition of T-Mobile from Deutsche Telekom for about $39 billion -- will be easy to settle. In ...

With one brief letter, the Federal Communications Commission has put a stop to any hopes that two pending AT&T deals -- its $1.9 billion purchase of spectrum licenses from Qualcomm and its proposed acquisition of T-Mobile from Deutsche Telekom for about $39 billion -- will be easy to settle. In ...

Members of the Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers voted to go on strike at Verizon Communications on Sunday. The 45,000 striking workers are employed in the wireline side of Verizon's operations and their absence will, theoretically at least, af...

Google is goosing its still-nascent Google Offers with the acquisition of The Dealmap. The startup, which aggregates discounts from a number of daily deal sites, launched a little more than a year ago, and has already gained a following of two million strong. Google Offers debuted about two months a...

Hulu is launching its first long-form original program this summer, a documentary series called "A Day in the Life." Six half-hour episodes, directed by filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, will feature such people as jet-setting entrepreneur Richard Branson, rapper and songwriter will.i.am, comedian Russell ...

A consortium of six major tech players calling themselves "Rockstar Bidco" won a $4.5 billion bid for 6,000 Nortel patents in June. The deal closed last week, but all may not be said and done. The Department of Justice reportedly intends to ask the consortium members just what they plan to do with t...

Can things get any worse for Nintendo? Its first-quarter earnings were a major disappointment, with net sales down 50.2 percent and gross profit down 84.3 percent, compared with the same period the previous fiscal year. Sales of its five-month old 3DS game console were absolutely dismal -- a mere 71...

The latest e-business report from ACSI, The American Customer Satisfaction Index, has some bad news for Facebook -- and by extension, yet more good news for Google. The survey, produced in partnership with customer experience analytics firm ForeSee Results, found that despite a small 3 percent jump ...

Live streaming of CNN's and HLN's 24-hour television networks became available on CNN.com, the CNN App for iPad, and the CNN App for iPhone and iPod touch on Monday -- but only to a limited audience. CNN's rollout of its version of TV Everywhere for consumers reaches AT&T, Comcast, Cox, DISH Net...

By most measures, the last two weeks have been a nonstop love fest for Google, beginning with the immediate acceptance of Google+ and culminating with stellar earnings on Thursday and an impressive performance by CEO Larry Page during the earnings call. Briefly, Google's second quarter revenues c...

Consumers are clearly intrigued by Google+. Following closely on their heels are companies, eager to tap what looks to be the next big trend in social media. Indeed, companies are waiting with bated breath for more details about what Google+ means for them -- that is, what advertising vehicles will ...

Comcast, Cablevision, Verizon, AT&T and Time Warner Cable have promised to be more proactive in alerting possible copyright violators using their networks in a voluntary agreement with the music and film industries. The antipiracy model they've adopted has been pushed for some time by the Record...

Microsoft has forged a deal with Baidu, China's largest search engine, to provide search functionality in English. The deal comes a year and a half after Google exited China's search market with much fanfare, announcing it could no longer stomach the censorship the government applied. By the end of ...

Nielsen's latest statistics on smartphone sales in the U.S. are more than a little eye-catching. They suggest that an important tipping point is on the horizon: The majority of mobile phone users will soon own smartphones, as opposed to feature phones. The majority of cellphone users still own fea...

Several weeks after the Sony PlayStation Network was brought to its knees by a massive security breach, the company has decided to clean house with an executive reshuffling. Among the changes: Akira Sato, chairman of Sony Computer Entertainment, and Ken Kutaragi, honorary chairman, will retire, ef...

French search company 1plusV has stepped up its battle with Google over how its algorithms rank sites, filing suit against the search engine giant in the French Commercial Court. It is seeking $423 million in damages from business it claims it lost due to alleged antitrust practices by Google. At $4...

One way or another, change is clearly coming for the online television website Hulu. Either it will be acquired by Yahoo, or it will put itself out on the market to be snapped up by another deep-pocketed company. Yahoo apparently has made an unsolicited offer for the company, according to news repor...