Improperly maintained utility lines were to blame for three wildfires that swept through San Diego County last fall, killing two people and destroying 1,347 homes, state regulators said
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel Corp., the No. 3 U.S. wireless service, has seen interest from other cable television companies wanting to join its venture with four cable TV providers, its top executive said Monday.
Cable operator Cox Communications Inc., the country's third-largest cable operator, is exploring the possibility of putting on the block four cable systems, valued at an estimated $1.8 billion to $2.7 billion, in an apparent effort to cash in on the increasing interest in cable among private-equity firms, Tuesday's Wall Street Journal reported.
Five years ago open-source databases such as MySQL were like sparring partners—a student might practice on them, though you'd never subject them to a pro fight. But in 2004 they showed they could c...
AT&T, which is moving away from providing traditional phone service to residential customers, is teaming with the nation's largest cable operators to offer phone service over the Internet, according to a published report.
U.S. stock futures fell Monday as investors worried about a possible terrorist threat to the nation's financial institutions, including the New York Stock Exchange.
Improperly maintained utility lines were to blame for three wildfires that swept through San Diego County last fall, killing two people and destroying 1,347 homes, state regulators said
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel Corp., the No. 3 U.S. wireless service, has seen interest from other cable television companies wanting to join its venture with four cable TV providers, its top executive said Monday.
Cable operator Cox Communications Inc., the country's third-largest cable operator, is exploring the possibility of putting on the block four cable systems, valued at an estimated $1.8 billion to $2.7 billion, in an apparent effort to cash in on the increasing interest in cable among private-equity firms, Tuesday's Wall Street Journal reported.
Five years ago open-source databases such as MySQL were like sparring partners—a student might practice on them, though you'd never subject them to a pro fight. But in 2004 they showed they could c...
AT&T, which is moving away from providing traditional phone service to residential customers, is teaming with the nation's largest cable operators to offer phone service over the Internet, according to a published report.
U.S. stock futures fell Monday as investors worried about a possible terrorist threat to the nation's financial institutions, including the New York Stock Exchange.
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