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HIGHER INTEGRATION AND MERGED ANALOG AND DIGITAL BLOCKS LET DSPS Do THE HARD JOBS. Ever the past decade, digital signal-processing chips have evolved from hard-to-use building-block circuits to relatively simple-to-program, […]

As the EPCglobal U.S. Conference gets under way this week in Atlanta, radio-frequency identification vendors are working to advance use of the technology with new tags and services, as well […]

A joint-development pact between AT&T and Texas Instruments announced Wednesday to provide new platforms for VoIP gear has already resulted in a combination wireline/broadband phone manufactured by VTech Communications. The […]

To cut operational costs while giving enterprise customers greater control over managing telecommunications services, service providers are seeking ways to integrate their back- and front-office systems. Later this year, AT&T […]

A new deal struck between Microsoft Corp. and AT&T Wireless last week could make it easier for companies to buy wireless equipment in the future. However, it is not likely […]

AT&T will support French and U.K. English language support for the Natural Voices Text-to-Speech (TTS) Engine. The French voice, named Alain, speaks in a Parisian dialect. The British voices, Charles […]

The next generation of public phones, the AT&T Public Phone 20001, combines simultaneous high-speed connectivity to the Internet and other online services, such as e-mail, with voice calling. Additional features [...]

Interactive TV may, at last, be ready for its close up. If so, it's due in part to the work of Long Island companies like Cablevision and Chyron, which are [...]

San Francisco - AT&T is developing a "broadband phone" that will be able to carry any type of packet traffic-from voice to data to streaming video-as specified by a touchscreen. […]

MicroStrategy Inc. is teaming with Aether Systems Inc., a provider of wireless data products and services, to develop software combining MicroStrategy's business-intelligence software with Aether's wireless technology. MicroStrategy 7M is […]

DENVER -- Amid projections of a boom in wireless data, top technologists from AT&T Labs and Nortel Networks sketched out their first efforts to define fourth-generation cellular networks in separate […]

DENVER - Amid projections of a boom in wireless data, top technologists from AT&T Labs and Nortel Networks sketched out their first efforts to define fourth-generation cellular networks in separate […]

AT&T and Hewlett-Packard have agreed to jointly develop and co-market a set of integrated, managed e-business solutions for global companies and high-growth dot-coms. Initial services will include e-commerce solutions for […]

AT&T and Hewlett-Packard have agreed to jointly develop and co-market a set of integrated, managed e-business solutions for global companies and high-growth dot-coms. Initial services will include e-commerce solutions for […]

Everybody's been expecting streaming media over the Internet togrow up this year, but so far, it's still acting like an adolescent. But adulthood could be around the corner now that […]

AT&T has a need for speed. The carrier is testing advanced technology in an effort to boost data speeds on its wireless network and to meet anticipated customer demand for […]

AT&T has a need for speed. The carrier is testing advanced technology in an effort to boost data speeds on its wireless network and to meet anticipated customer demand for […]

Long distance carriers are racing to deliver broadband local access services to small and midsize businesses, giving them the speed and reliability now available only to large enterprises. Qwest, AT&T […]

The gods must have a special place for frame relay. Bested by ATM in speed and by IP in flexibility, frame relay keeps on mutating and growing. First there was […]

The gods must have a special place for frame relay. Bested by ATM in speed and by IP in flexibility, frame relay keeps on mutating and growing. First there was […]

New York-AT&T Corp. last week outlined plans for fixed wireless services and network upgrades, reshuffling its top management ranks to accommodate the creation of a wireless division. John Zeglis, president […]

At an August Wall Street Telecommunications Association (WSTA) seminar on Emerging Global Carriers, AT&T said its proposed British Telecom joint global venture is giving AT&T the chance to reinvent its […]

AT&T Corp. said late last month that it has agreed with Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., BMG Entertainment and Universal Music Group to test digital-music-download security on a large-scale basis. [...]

By Sarah Schmelling Suppose you're in China and you don't speak Chinese. You walk out of the airport, scrounge up a cab, and now you want to tell the taxi […]

BEHIND THE UNIX COLD WAR Ken Olsen's characterization of Unix as 'snake oil' last month marked the latest verbal shot in a seven-month-old cold war involving AT&T and Unix standardization. […]

AT&T Corp. will begin testing this fall a new 'light wire' cable network, the first product to come out of its two-year-old, 300-strong research and development facility in Menlo Park. [...]

Smart, antenna technology, a cornerstone of AT&T Corp.'s local-loop scheme, has moved beyond the research-and-development stage to become a factor in wireless communications much sooner than many observers thought possible. [...]

Electronic communication devices have become something business travelers can't live with and can't live without. Many people lug notebooks around just to check e-mail, but those units require a phone […]

IBM, Microsoft, AT&T plan PC speech-recognition moves Austin, Texas - In a bid to resuscitate its OS/2 Warp operating system and give Windows 95 a run for its money, IBM […]

AT&T Network Systems and Hewlett-Packard Co. will blend their respective strengths in communications and computing in a co-operative move to drive network operators toward faster deployments of high-speed data and [...]

The two most powerful communication devices on your desk are the telephone and the computer, and leaders in both industries are scurrying to combine that power. Almost a year ago, […]

Question: When is a PBX not a PBX? Answer: When it's a "communications server." As the computing and telecommunications worlds draw ever closer to collision, top AT&T execs-particularly those who […]

Recipients of AT&T Corp.'s fourth beta version of Interchange are reacting positively to performance improvements in the new software. The latest beta version was recently sent out to 22,000 subscribers […]

There are some exciting projects under way in which electric utilities are improving their communications systems. They not only are looking for better ways to operate the system but are [...]

Broadband Technologies Inc. and various units of AT&T Corp. have developed a way to lower costs of fiber-rich networks while supporting delivery of digital video in asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) [...]

Telecom's mega-merger is barely a week old, but AT&T Corp. and McCaw Cellular Communications Inc. already have laid an 18-month strategy that leverages AT&T's PC lineup with a broad mix […]

NASHVILLE--When it was previewed at the Audio Engineering Society convention in San Francisco two years ago, AT&T's Disq Digital Mixer Core looked--in theory, anyway--like the perfect transitionary technology for recording […]

Lotus Development Corp. now plans to deliver AT&T public Notes Servers nearly six months earlier than expected, company sources and others briefed on the project said last week. The servers […]

AT&T's deployment of its GCNS-2000 asynchronous transfer mode switch is underway. AT&T Network System's ATM platform vice president lays out a road map for the company's vision of this exciting […]

SAN FRANCISCO -- IBM and AT&T this week will unveil details of rival systems aimed at interactive 'video on demand' markets, choosing the National Cable Television Association's annual convention to […]

By unveiling a new ATM switch and forming an alliance with AT&T and Cisco Systems Inc., StrataCom Inc. is seeking to claim the high ground in the emerging realm of […]

LAS VEGAS--The growing family of interactive multimedia gained another format the Winter CES here with Matsushita Company and AT&T promising to deliver interactive multimedia systems later this year based on [...]

At NetWorld Novell Inc. and AT&T will take another stab at convincing the industry that computers and telephones need to be integrated. The two companies last week announced an application […]