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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.

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 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.

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.

Google's quest to build a fiber network in Austin, Texas has hit a snag in the form of AT&T.

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 wants to silence a shareholder proposal that it disclose the government requests it receives for customer information, rejecting a step that Google, Microsoft and other Internet companies have already taken.

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.

Companies like AT&T generally aren't in the business of making it easier for customers to switch to competitors. But a new plan from the company will do just that.

A group of well-known security researchers on Monday asked an appeals court to overturn the sentence of a hacker who was jailed in March for taking advantage of an AT&T website flaw to expose iPad users' data.