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Verizon Communications is trying to market its television service before other cable providers establish market share, and thus has its own computer programmers working on the code of software developed by Microsoft.

Telecommunication companies such as Verizon and AT&T are fighting back against scams that pretend to be a phone company in order to obtain customers' financial data.

As amateur video site YouTube grows in popularity, corporations are starting to exploit its economic potential, as evidenced by a spoof of Al Gore that was posted by DCI Group, a public relations firm linked to Exxon Mobil Corp.

AT&T is marketing its new television service through house parties.

There is an active debate on whether Congress should allow Internet service providers to introduce two-tiered services, in which content providers would pay extra fees to ensure speedy delivery of their information.

Verizon Wireless and other cellular telephone services have been marketing services that allow customers to use the Internet from their cell phones, but they forbid customers from using the service for activities that use up a lot of bandwith.

Chief operating officers Randall Stephenson and Mark Feidler of AT&T and BellSouth, respectively, are expected to expected to play key roles when the companies combine.

A deal between Current Communications Group LLC and TXU Electric Delivery to bring high speed internet access to Texas subscribers through power lines will take market share away from cable and telecommunications companies.

Verizon Communications Inc. and Cablevision Systems Corp. are engaged in a turf war that has involved extensive advertising, political involvements, and court battles in order to bring internet services to consumers.

In the hours following the London bombings, cellular telephone networks were jammed and callers could not complete their calls, but text messaging systems worked mainly because the messages were queued until the lines were free.

A Supreme Court ruling in favor of the Federal Communications Commission against Brand X Internet LLC prevents cable television companies from having to share their Internet lines with other, smaller Internet providers.

The Texas legislature's decision to reject a bid by Verizon and SBC Communications to introduce television service, does not bode well for their national efforts.

Phone and cable companies are battling over proposed Texas legislation that would allow telecommunications companies to offer television services.

The United Kingdom has a new law covering bribery, the Bribery Act 2010, which is similar to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 in the United States, but which is more wide-ranging. This has many firms concerned about interpretation of the Act and compliance.

Schlumberger Ltd. is the subject of an investigation by the United States Department of Justice which is looking at bribery allegations associated with Zonic Invest Ltd., a Yemeni company involved as consultant to the government of Yemen. Schlumberger was developing an oil-exploration databank for the government of Yemen.