Edward Snowden was not the first high-profile person to reveal secrets about the NSA's surveillance operations after September 11th. He was the third. The first two have come forward to express support for Snowden, in part, one can assume, hoping that this time something actually changes.
While the cases of Aaron Swartz and Matthew Keys made them into even bigger heroes because of villainous sounding prosecutions and astonishingly long potential jail times, this harsh sentencing might make a champion out of a guy who, really, is just an expert pain in the online butt.
AT&T's olive branch on Friday only reinforces how much power cell carriers wield with the new unlocking law: they can still deny customers the freedom of truly owning a phone they bought through another company — and that's why Senators are trying to overturn it.
After complaints from users and consumer advocacy groups, AT&T has announced that anyone with any kind of data plan can use Apple's FaceTime feature over data services with a compatible iPhone.
Those new data-share plans are so complicated — and often infuriating — that AT&T now offers a personalized video to break down your plan.
After announcing the other week that it would extend FaceTime to all iPhone 5 owners, no matter their data plan, AT&T has started rolling out the video-chat service to even more customers, according to reports.
Despite its weaker LTE offerings than Verizon, AT&T still sold more iPhones this quarter, per its earnings report, but the margin over its rivals is shrinking.
iPhone buying has officially begun with online pre-orders this morning and in-store sales starting next week. It's time to start thinking about the right phone plan for your new iPhone 5.
Following allegations that its just announced FaceTime payment plan violates FCC guidelines, AT&T has responded with a statement calling the outrage a "knee jerk reaction," the kind of explanation that makes angry consumers even angrier.
Following Verizon's lead, AT&T has announced the data-centric plans it had threatened and they don't sound like money savers compared to the old solo subscriptions.
Thanks to a report in today's New York Times, we know cell phone companies are besieged with requests for phone records from the U.S. government. But who's answering all those requests?
Verizon has just announced the first ever data-share cell phone plans, meaning that end of the phone we predicted a couple weeks ago just got closer.
These days our "phones" aren't really phones in the dictionary sense ("an instrument for reproducing sounds at a distance") any more. And soon enough, if the CEO of AT&T is correct, they won't even involve namesake capability anymore.
It's always exciting when someone stands up to a bully—unless that results in jacking up of the price of the hottest phone even higher than it already is.
This morning's earnings report from AT&T confirms that it sold more iPhones than its competitor Verizon last quarter, something it probably isn't too ecstatic about.
Verizon's strong Q1 earnings were a lot about the iPhone, proving Apple has nothing to worry about in terms of its wireless partners' subsidy of their mega-selling smartphones.
AT&T has finally decided to give up on its Yellow Pages business, selling its majority share to the private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management for nearly $1 billion, which seems like a big bet for Cerberus on a business in decline.
With the cable business finally reaching saturation when it comes to adding new subscribers, and viewers blessed with more on-demand choices than ever, many top cable channels have recently experienced their worst ratings declines ever.
With the iPad selling like too-warm cakes (get it?!) and the expansion of 4G LTE networks we are all turning into very expensive super-users.
The data dependent army of tweeters are fuming over AT&T's announcing that it will cap its unlimited data plans.
The big three cell phone carriers have a paradoxical relationship with the iPhone: each carrier needs the device to survive, but the more iPhones they sell, the more money they seem to lose.
At an executive-studded keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, AT&T unveiled a very unexpected new initiative: an Apple-like, HTML5-powered app store.
If the failed merger of AT&T and T-Mobile taught us anything, it's how our new smartphone-driven lifestyle is driving mobile carriers to resort to extreme measures in order to slow sinking profits caused by the high cost of pouring data into our pockets.
Though signs of optimism had been flickering for weeks, AT&T announced their decision to drop its proposal to merge with T-Mobile on Monday, citing pressure from the Federal Communications Commission and the Department of Justice.
After speeding towards the precipice of total failure, AT&T won a little victory in its controversial quest to merge with T-Mobile by winning a federal judge's permission to delay the court case until next year.
Providers have started taking pre-orders and we're here to help
The underdog mobile carrier says the merger would lead to "higher prices and less innovation"
AT&T faces an uphill battle, and most reactions are pessimistic
The government says combining the two major wireless carriers will stifle competition
If regulators approve the T-Mobile purchase, AT&T will bring back 5,000 call-center jobs
A string of bad publicity and an accidental leak has soured the fortunes of AT&T
The NAACP finds itself in a controversy soon after GLAAD withdraws its support
Dismayed members of the gay community call for GLAAD's president to resign
The president of GLAAD urges the FCC to approve the T-Mobile acquisition. But why?
The third place mobile company says the merger won't add value to consumers
The wireless merger plan will test the Obama administration's antitrust policy
Major corporations in Louisiana have donated generously to a charity headed by the governor's wife
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