It appears the second time's the charm for AT&T, which won a $350 million data networking contract from the U.S. Department of Agriculture two years after having been awarded -- but later stripped -- of the same deal because of a protest from the losing bidders.
IBM is paying $1.4 billion in cash to acquire Sterling Commerce, an AT&T company that makes business-to-business e-commerce software designed to help companies connect with the systems of their customers, partners and suppliers.
Weekly roundup of smartphone news, including word about the iPhone expanding beyond AT&T deal, BlackBerry Storm2 pricinig, Motorola Droid's debut and a Palm Pixi preview.
AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega strongly implied today that the carrier's exclusive deal to sell the iPhone in the U.S. is ending, although he offered no details in a conference call with analysts.
AT&T Inc. said today it activated 3.2 million iPhones in the third quarter, its best-ever for a quarter, adding that nearly 40% of those iPhone activations were for new subscribers to the wireless carrier.
Microsoft Thursday issued the following letter to T-Mobile Sidekick customers in the wake of the recent outage that looked as if it would result in the loss of many customers' data.
AT&T received some bad news from Consumer Reports this week, as the magazine's latest survey shows that the carrier now has the lowest level of customer satisfaction in the United States.
Law firm Bursor & Fisher wants AT&T customers to help it stop the AT&T-T-Mobile merger and is using the prospect of a $10,000 arbitration payment to bring people onboard.
Nearly three days after activating its multimedia messaging service (MMS) to iPhone 3G and 3GS, AT&T Inc. said today it was "pleased with the rollout" despite continuing user complaints on its own Facebook page.
AT&T will officially launch the long-awaited MMS service for the iPhone on Friday, but some users have reported it's already working, according to messages on the company's Facebook site.
AT&T on Monday made another grab for business mobile users, introducing two more hosted applications built on its Mobile Enterprise Applications Platform.
AT&T took a big step forward in its plan to deploy Long Term Evolution technology by selecting Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent as its LTE equipment vendors.
On the one-year anniversary of the debut of Google's Android mobile software on its first handset, the T-Mobile G1, Taiwanese mobile phone service provider Far EasTone raised the number of Android smartphones it plans to launch this year.
AT&T says it has successfully demonstrated the ability to recover from a major backbone outage by routing 40G of traffic using mobile trailers equipped with gigabit-speed routers.
College students have long been known to protest against war, racism and other social maladies. But now students at Santa Clara University are taking aim at a new form of injustice: Poor cell phone reception.
Although AT&T has been aggressively improving its 3G network in recent months, the company could still struggle to retain iPhone users if rival Verizon began offering the device on its network.
T-Mobile USA asked a court on Wednesday leave to submit a brief of amicus curiae ("friend of the court") to prevent a preliminary injunction asked by Apple against the sale in the U.S. of Samsung's Galaxy S 4G smartphone and Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet, citing its impact on holiday sales this year.