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Not so fast, AT&T. A Federal Communications Commission official has addressed the challenges that AT&T faces in pursuing its $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile. Both FCC and Department of Justice regulators will have to approve of the merger first, and the transaction will not get a rubber ...

Not so fast, AT&T. A Federal Communications Commission official has addressed the challenges that AT&T faces in pursuing its $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile. Both FCC and Department of Justice regulators will have to approve of the merger first, and the transaction will not get a rubber ...

Not so fast, AT&T. A Federal Communications Commission official has addressed the challenges that AT&T faces in pursuing its $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile. Both FCC and Department of Justice regulators will have to approve of the merger first, and the transaction will not get a rubber ...

I chuckled when I first heard of AT&T's plan to buy T-Mobile. Just days before, I had written that AT&T's movement toward phasing out unlimited data plans for the iPhone and its broadband Internet offerings was a sign that the telecommunications services that have become such an integral par...

I chuckled when I first heard of AT&T's plan to buy T-Mobile. Just days before, I had written that AT&T's movement toward phasing out unlimited data plans for the iPhone and its broadband Internet offerings was a sign that the telecommunications services that have become such an integral par...

I chuckled when I first heard of AT&T's plan to buy T-Mobile. Just days before, I had written that AT&T's movement toward phasing out unlimited data plans for the iPhone and its broadband Internet offerings was a sign that the telecommunications services that have become such an integral par...

A major 2008 settlement between Google Books, authors and publishers has been rejected by a New York federal Judge. Judge Denny Chin of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the $125 million settlement because he said it would give Google too much power in the search market. The 2008 settleme...

Amazon launched its own Android app store Tuesday, an event immediately followed by the introduction of a lawsuit filed by Apple, according to Bloomberg. The suit claims trademark infringement and unfair competition on usage of the term "app store." Amazon's Appstore is launching with 3,800 apps an...

Republican leaders in the House of Representatives are flexing their collective majority muscles in both substance and style. The most significant change resulting from gaining the electoral majority in the House, of course, is that direction of all committees has shifted to Republican hands. But ot...

AT&T announced a deal Sunday that will make it the largest cellphone company in the U.S., surpassing Verizon. AT&T reached an agreement to acquire T-Mobile from Deutsche Telekom for about $39 billion. The deal will need approval from the FCC and DoJ to verify it would not violate antitrust l...

AT&T announced a deal Sunday that will make it the largest cellphone company in the U.S., surpassing Verizon. AT&T reached an agreement to acquire T-Mobile from Deutsche Telekom for about $39 billion. The deal will need approval from the FCC and DoJ to verify it would not violate antitrust l...

AT&T announced a deal Sunday that will make it the largest cellphone company in the U.S., surpassing Verizon. AT&T reached an agreement to acquire T-Mobile from Deutsche Telekom for about $39 billion. The deal will need approval from the FCC and DoJ to verify it would not violate antitrust l...

Microsoft and federal law enforcement agents have taken down the Rustock botnet, which had about a million infected computers under its control. The botnet was officially considered offline on Wednesday, according to Microsoft. A botnet consists of an infrastructure of computers that have been hacke...

The National Federation of the Blind has filed a civil rights violation complaint with the Department of Justice, asking it to investigate the adoption of Google Apps by New York University and Northwestern University, as well as some schools in the state of Oregon. The use of Google Apps in an educ...

The House Energy and Commerce Communications and Technology Subcommittee approved a joint resolution to overturn the Federal Communication Commission's Net neutrality rules on Wednesday. The measure, which passed in a 15-8 vote, still needs to clear the full committee before moving to the House fo...