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AT&T's smart home service goes overseas: Telefonica to test it out

posted onSeptember 9, 2014
by l33tdawg

AT&T's Digital Life home automation and security platform has legs, both domestically and internationally.

AT&T and Spanish telecommunications Telefonica said on Monday that Telefonica would begin testing out the Digital Life smart life service in its own markets, licensing the platform from AT&T. The two companies made the announcement at a wirelessly connected home here, a day before the CTIA Super Mobility Week wireless trade show begins.

AT&T and Box to pave secure path to cloud content via VPN

posted onSeptember 4, 2014
by l33tdawg

Box and AT&T plan to lock down cloud file-sharing with a service that places enterprise content behind an AT&T VPN.

The service, announced at the BoxWorks conference on Thursday and coming in the first half of next year, extends AT&T’s NetBond technology to Box. It will be able to work in conjunction with the carrier’s Toggle software, which separates business from personal content on mobile devices. Toggle with Box is scheduled to ship early next year.

AT&T Announces $48.5 Billion Bid for DirecTV

posted onMay 19, 2014
by l33tdawg

AT&T has announced plans to purchase satellite-TV provider DirecTV for $48.5 billion.

Following rumors that such a deal was in the works, AT&T announced Sunday, May 18, that it had reached a deal to acquire DirecTV for $95 per share, based on AT&T’s Friday closing price. The deal has been approved by the boards of both companies.

NSA protest stirs up memories of AT&T spying scandal

posted onFebruary 12, 2014
by l33tdawg

It was a walk down memory lane for Mark Klein on Tuesday night, when a crowd gathered to hear him speak out, yet again, about the secret sharing of data between a top communications company and the US government.

Klein, a retired AT&T technician, leaked several internal AT&T documents in 2006 that showed that the NSA was collecting data from AT&T through a restricted room, 641A.

AT&T accused of violating privacy law with sale of phone records to CIA

posted onDecember 12, 2013
by l33tdawg

Consumer advocates have asked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to declare that AT&T violated a privacy rule in the Communications Act by selling phone records to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

A report last month said that "AT&T has turned over international calling records to the CIA. The telecom charges the CIA more than $10 million per year in exchange for access to metadata about calls by suspected terrorists overseas."

AT&T Gets $10M a Year From CIA to Comb Records, Share Data

posted onNovember 7, 2013
by l33tdawg

AT&T is paid $10 million annually by the CIA to share call data, reports The Times. Such deals are likely to complicate a Vodafone acquisition.

AT&T is paid more than $10 million a year to help the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with its "overseas counterterrorism investigations," The New York Times reported Nov. 7. AT&T has a voluntary contract with the CIA, and is "not under subpoenas or court orders compelling the company to participate," said the report, citing government officials.