We'll admit it: sometimes we have a hard time making heads or tails of tricky statistical arguments (we think the problem is compounded late on a Friday afternoon). In any event, a study released yesterday has us scratching our heads. The study indicates that, even while investigative resources are on [...]

As I promised a few weeks ago, I've disconnected my land line. Actually I had my husband do it, because after several random snafus that involved my office line going dead and then randomly dialing 9-1-1 at odd times during the day and night, I can no longer deal with [...]

Claude Shannon invented the modern mathematical definition of information, casting it in terms of bits and entropy. Shannon also tinkered with odd contraptions, but his boldest most brilliant invention was one called "The Ultimate Machine.''  It was based on an idea of Marvin Minsky. Image from Lightbucket The operation and [...]

AT&T; plans to downsize an undisclosed number of management positions in a reorganization the telecom giant says will help change its broadband, landline and DSL offerings from regional focus to a national one. Among the first to go: David Scobey, president and chief executive officer of AT&T; Southeast and one [...]

Verizon Business is currently testing methods to enable the remote configuration of fibre patch panels—the panels used to manage cable connections—reports Telephony Online. Glenn Wellbrock, the director of backbone and network technologies at Verizon, notes, “Patch panels today are the last manual thing we have in[...]

Fixed network operator Arcor plans to deploy a VDSL network in two small municipalities in Thuringa as pilot projects, reports Telecompaper. The Vodafone subsidiary hopes to activate the networks by the middle of this year; neither municipality currently has any broadband internet access. According to TeleGeography’s GlobalComms database, Arcor is [...]