DOJ to block AT&T's acquisition of T-Mobile USA

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	DOJ to block AT&T's acquisition of T-Mobile USA The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit to block AT&T's $39 billion deal to buy mobile competitor T-Mobile USA, according to sources. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco The Right Unified Communications Solution The advantages of today's unified communications are numerous, and there are many choices among solutions. A Cisco white paper is available to help you make the right decision. The paper outlines ten differentiators—from mobile device support to social software—that you should consider before deciding on a unified communications upgrade. White Paper In this Issue Google adds offline access to Gmail in Chrome Verizon's LTE network will cover 185M people by yearend World's thinnest material could boost Internet speeds AT&T to return jobs to U.S. if T-Mobile deal is approved QuickPoll: Should AT&T be allowed to take over T-Mobile? Sprint cheers government move to halt AT&T-T-Mobile deal RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: FileMaker Resource: iOS White Paper and Deployment Kit Quickly Develop and Deploy iOS Solutions. With FileMaker Pro, iPad and iPhone solutions can be prototyped and completed in hours or days versus weeks or months. No iOS application programming or design experience is required. Read the white paper and download the kit. Google adds offline access to Gmail in Chrome Chrome browser users can access Gmail when they're not connected to the Internet and will gain similar offline capabilities for Docs and Calendar in the coming week, the company announced on Wednesday. Read More Verizon's LTE network will cover 185M people by yearend Verizon CTO David Small estimated that Verizon's LTE network will cover 185 million people by the end of the year, according to Frost & Sullivan analyst Ronald Gruia. Read More World's thinnest material could boost Internet speeds Two Nobel Prize winning scientists out of the U.K. have come up with a new way to use graphene – the thinnest material in the world – that could make Internet pipes feel a lot fatter. Read More WHITE PAPER: SAP 6 Mistakes Companies are Making – and How to Avoid Them When the economy slows, many businesses react by retrenching and cutting costs in order to weather the downturn. While such cost reduction is important, companies often overlook equally critical strategic decisions – opportunities to use valuable business information to strengthen product and service offerings and emerge ahead of the competition. Read More! AT&T to return jobs to U.S. if T-Mobile deal is approved AT&T promises to bring 5,000 call-center jobs back to the U.S. if its acquisition of T-Mobile USA is approved. Read More QuickPoll: Should AT&T be allowed to take over T-Mobile? The DOJ has moved to block AT&T's takeover of T-Mobile USA. Critics say the acquisition would reduce competition and drive up prices. AT&T argues it needs the buy to build out its network. Should AT&T be allowed to take over T-Mobile? Read More Sprint cheers government move to halt AT&T-T-Mobile deal It's not often that a company will cheer when the government directly intervenes in its industry, but things are different when you face potential oblivion without government action. Read More
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