American Airlines rolled out its take on cloud computing today, becoming the first airline in the U.S. to offer full in-flight broadband access. Dubbed “GoGo” and provided by AirCell, the service is available for a flat $12.95 fee on flights between New York and San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles, and New York and Miami.
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Vonage’s slow death is … well, it’s slowing.The financially struggling Internet-phone company reported today a smaller first-quarter loss thanks largely to prudent cost cuts.
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In 2010, it could take as long as two minutes to download an episode of “Chad Vader–Day Shift Manager” from YouTube, instead of the few seconds it takes today. This according to a new study from Nemertes Research Group, which claims that the Internet could be approaching its capacity. “Our findings indicate that core [...]
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Earlier this summer AT&T was widely criticized for failing to promote the $10-a-month DSL deal it had agreed to offer as a condition for the Federal Communication Commission’s approval of its $86 billion megamerger with BellSouth.
Well, turns out that criticism was undeserved because, according to AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson, no one really wants $10 DSL [...]
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The Federal Communications Commission should have been a bit more rigorous in describing its conditions for approving the $86 billion megamerger between AT&T and BellSouth. Because AT&T seems bent on satisfying them in the most unsatisfying way possible.
Over the weekend, the company began offering high-speed Internet service for about half its normal price in some [...]
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