Topic: AT&T Inc.

AT&T Site Breach Exposes 114,000 iPad Users

The e-mail addresses of about 114,000 iPad users were exposed after hackers from a group that calls itself Goatse Security exploited a hole in an AT&T website, reports CNET News. New York-based Praetorian Security Group says: According to The Financial Times, AT&T ...
Senator John McCain (R-AZ) is the top recipient of campaign contributions from large Internet service providers like AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast over the past two years, according to a new report from the Sunlight Foundation and the Center for Responsive Politics. Meanwhile, ...
The clich? doesn't seem far off the mark after reading Mark Klein's new book, "Wiring up the Big Brother Machine ... Klein, 64, was a retired AT&T communications technician in December 2005, when he read the New York Times story that blew ...

FCC Chair Nominee Vows To Probe Exclusive Cell Phone Deals

President Obama's choice to head the Federal Communications Commission plans to review the exclusive arrangements between wireless carriers and cell phone makers.
AT&T is coming out in favor of more controls on targeted advertising, reports The Wall Street Journal.. At a House subcommittee hearing on the issue Thursday, AT&T advocated more transparency and consumer control over the practice, in which users' every online click ...
In his first month, the focus on President Obama's policy choices has been his tax and spending policies. AT&T has the most money and so would either give Verizon the best price or at least push up the price in a bidding ...

House Panel Focuses in on Targeted Advertising

The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee has expanded its inquiry into targeted advertising, according to an Associated Press story on Newsvine. The companies have a week to respond.. Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, AT&T, Comcast, Qwest, Verizon, AOL and Time Warner Cable were ...

Supreme Court Takes up AT&T Appeal

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a a case in which AT&T appeals a lower-court ruling that it tried to force small ISPs out of business by setting wholesale prices too high.. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals sided with ...
When T-Mobile began selling Apple's iPhone in Germany last fall, a legal skirmish ensued, forcing the wireless carrier to sell it untethered to a contract--at $1,460, no less. Now that same kind of European rule would be imported into the United States--meaning ...
A federal judge has ordered the Bush administration to divulge documents related to immunizing telecommunications companies from lawsuits, saying they illegally opened their networks to the National Security Agency. Note that Illston's order doesn't deal with the NSA's wiretapping program itself (how ...
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