9 posts and columns on U-verse

AT&T Says T-Mobile Deal Remains on Track to Close Early Next Year

in Mobile on July 21, 2011 at 7:30 am PT

Ma Bell says its overall business is strong, even as the company shifts significant attention to winning approval for its planned T-Mobile acquisition.
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AT&T Web Customers Face Data Cap

in News on March 14, 2011 at 2:35 am PT

AT&T Inc. said Sunday that it will begin to cap DSL data usage for its Internet customers and implement charges for anyone who goes over the limit.

Windows Phone 7: There’s an App for Some of That

in News on October 11, 2010 at 9:15 am PT

How many Windows Phone 7 apps will be available when the first devices running the OS ship? Microsoft refuses to say, but I’m told it will be plenty. Or, as one exec told me, “enough.”

CES: Steve Ballmer Keynote

in News on January 6, 2010 at 6:00 pm PT

Steve Ballmer is delivering his annual state-of-Microsoft address at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas tonight–the second he’s given since taking over the duties of former CEO Bill Gates. If anything like last year’s, Ballmer’s address will offer a broad overview of Microsoft’s consumer strategy for the year, touching on everything from the company’s hardware-software ecosystem to its home entertainment offerings. Likely to figure prominently in tonight’s address: Windows 7 and the new touch-enabled PC form factors it has evidently inspired; Bing; and Natal, Microsoft’s controller-less game control system, which will launch in time for the 2010 holidays.
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Another Video Site We Don’t Need: AT&T Entertainment

in Media on September 3, 2009 at 10:54 am PT

There is no shortage of places to watch TV shows free on the Web. There’s a glut of them, really. But here comes another: AT&T Entertainment. How is it different than Hulu, TV.com, Sling.com, Fancast, etc.? It’s not.
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AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson: “Wireless Is the Priority of This Business”

in D7 on May 27, 2009 at 8:17 am PT

Randall Stephenson is just two years into his tenure as CEO of AT&T, but faces challenges that have been decades in the making. Among them: remaking AT&T amid the steady decline of its landline business, future-proofing its business as our appetites for bandwidth grow, competing with the likes of Comcast in the cable TV market and fending off the proponents of Net neutrality who don’t care much for the idea of a two-tiered Internet. Beyond this there is the issue of continuing to build out AT&T’s wireless business, which if not iPhone-dependent, is certainly nursing a hell of a habit.
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AT&T Workers Create “Ready to Strike” Ringtone

in News on April 10, 2009 at 4:32 pm PT

AT&T and the union representing its workers are still in contract talks, but workers have published a song, with accompanying ringtone, called “Ready to Strike,” just in case. The song’s pro-labor lyrics include “Get ready to strike, get ready to walk the line” and “Protect my health care, don’t lower my wages/Realize, recognize, mobilize, stay alive” and even a shout-out to technicians who support U-verse, AT&T’s TV service.