Tag: DEPARTMENTOFJUSTICE

In the largest deal the wireless industry has seen since 2004, AT&T has agreed to buy T-Mobile USA for $39 billion in cash and stocks. In acquiring T-Mobile from parent company Deutsche Telekom, AT&T will pick up an extra 34 million wireless customers, and will provide service to about 43-percent of all U.S. cell phones, making it the country's largest network operator. At the end of ...

On Tuesday, the FCC and the Department of Justice finally approved a major merger between Comcast and NBC, after more than a year of debate and what federal regulators called the most acute scrutiny a media merger had ever faced. The deal gives Comcast control over NBC Universal's TV and movie subsidiaries, in exchange for about $13.75 billion in cash and assets. Comcast will own 51-percent of ...

Facebook is joining forces with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the Department of Justice to broadcast Amber Alerts across the social network. Each state will soon have its own Amber Alert page, where concerned users will be able to find the latest updates on children who have gone missing in their areas. The official announcement is expected to come at a press ...

For the first time in U.S. history, the federal government has a coordinated strategy for protecting the intellectual property of American companies both here and abroad. The Department of Justice and the FBI will be working closely to enact 30 recommendations put together by the Obama administration, including closely monitoring foreign websites, especially in China, for pirated American music, ...

We mentioned yesterday that Google and a host of other privacy groups had filed a brief, on behalf of Yahoo!, to stop the courts from forcing the company to hand over the e-mail records of its customers to the Department of Justice (DOJ) without having been first served a warrant. Well, it appears the protest from the Web super power, along with the Electronic Frontier Foundation and others, ...

We're accustomed to overstatement and morally questionable tactics from the MPAA and RIAA. Remember, these are the crews that sued a single mom for $1.9 million over 24 illegally downloaded songs, wanted anti-virus companies to start scanning for pirated media and called file sharers a bunch of drug-dealing Al Qaeda operatives. But nothing they've done before could possibly approach the level of ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Analysts at Morgan Stanley expect mobile Internet usage to surpass stationary browsing by 2015. According to Mary Meeker (Morgan's leading Web analyst), the mobile Web has grown at a significantly faster pace than desktop usage (such as dial up or broadband). With more and more people snatching up smartphones, though, most of this ...

It was disturbing enough when the government was just listening in. Now privacy advocates are afraid the government may be tracking our every move through our cell phones. In November of 2007, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the Department of Justice (DOJ) to find out how widespread such tracking is. The DOJ didn't hand over the data, so ...