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Verizon Communications has been authorised to offer its FiOS TV service to the town of Bedford in Westchester county, New York.

There's no doubt mobile operators, led by Verizon Wireless, are opening up their networks.

There are few things more terrifying to me than the idea of going anywhere near a shopping establishment on Black Friday.

Thousands of new gadgets are introduced each year, but few rise above blandness and mediocrity.

Residents of the Town of Bedford in Westchester County are a major step closer to having a real choice for their cable television service, thanks to a newly approved agreement authorizing Verizon to offer its FiOS TV service, delivered over the most advanced fiber-optic network straight to customers' homes.

Just in time for Thanksgiving and its related activities, Verizon's award-winning FiOS TV is now available in parts of Philadelphia.

Verizon Communications Inc. may be reviving the copper retirement debate, whether it means to do so or not.

What would the holidays be without bickering between siblings? AT&T and Verizon are swamping TV with ads attacking facets of each other's wireless networks.

FairPoint Communications, struggling to emerge from bankruptcy, has hired two Maine firms to beef up marketing and communications.

NAD rules on disputes between advertisers over the truthfulness of their claims.

Telecommunications equipment maker Ciena won an auction to acquire a division of Nortel Networks that develops equipment for transmitting data and voice traffic for about $769 million in cash and stock.

Media giants always underestimate the upstarts, but it doesn't mean they are right.

Sinead Carew - Reuters Published on Monday, Nov. 23, 2009 3:11PM EST A s U.S. consumers compile their holiday shopping lists, the Droid smartphone from Motorola Inc.

The folks in AT&T Inc. 's marketing department undoubtedly will spend this weekend hatching new ideas to combat Verizon Communications Inc.

National Security Agency sources have reported to WMR that the signals intelligence agency's warrantless wiretapping program was more widespread than originally reported and that it began shortly after the 2001 inauguration of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, some six months prior to the 9/11 attacks.

Verizon Communications Inc. said Thursday it began offering severance packages and one-time payments this month to some of its nonsalaried workers in an effort to trim its payroll by 8,000 jobs by the end of January.

By Jim Edwards In a legal fight over the advertising for Verizon and AT&T 's rival 3G cellphone networks, AT&T has admitted that its 3G network is smaller and that Verizon's ads are "literally true based on square miles." It's an odd - and possibly suicidal - legal strategy for AT&T, which brought the suit in the first place.

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The utility industry's ongoing adoption of smart grid digital technology is bringing many conservation and cost-saving benefits, and with them some unprecedented cyber security threats.