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Tech predictions from 1993: Video phones, tablets and hovercars

Posted April 30, 2012 - 2:58 pm

AT&T predicts the 'world of 2003' in this 1993 video, with moderate success (tech was close, fashion was way off).
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AT&T achieves Zen state of unintentional irony

Posted April 26, 2012 - 11:37 am

The company that fought last year to reduce the number of U.S. carriers from four to three says more competition in the smartphone market is a good thing.
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What are you willing to pay for mobile data?

Posted April 25, 2012 - 1:09 pm

With at least half of all U.S. mobile device users now owning smartphones, wireless carriers must rely on mobile data sales for future revenue growth. But there are limits to how much consumers are willing to pay for mobile data.
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Time Machine: Enter the glamorous world of the 1938 telephone operator

Posted April 12, 2012 - 3:59 pm

Take a trip back to the world of the "one ringy dingy" gals.
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Flashback Friday: '70s kids learn about their future miserable jobs

Posted April 6, 2012 - 11:15 am

1970s film focuses on different careers that they'll never achieve.
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T-Mobile to close call centers employing 3,300 workers

Posted March 23, 2012 - 12:46 pm

T-Mobile USA on Friday announced it would lay off up to 3,300 employees as part of a move to close down some call centers.
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Random people from the 1970s answering the phone

Posted March 23, 2012 - 10:43 am

Travel back to 1977 to see the funky phones people were using back then.
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Who knew so many Nigerian scammers were hearing-impaired?

Posted March 22, 2012 - 1:38 pm

The U.S. Department of Justice has joined a whistleblower lawsuit accusing AT&T of abusing a federal reimbursement program designed to help hearing-impaired people make telephone calls via the Internet.
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Time Machine: 1985 phone film provides more unintentional comedy, sexism

Posted March 22, 2012 - 9:44 am

Mama Mia, what do I do with this-a speakerphone?
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AT&T shows how to make a PR disaster even worse

Posted March 15, 2012 - 2:58 pm

If you want some lessons in how to make a PR problem even worse, you must learn at the feet of the master, AT&T.
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Time Machine: 1991 films predicted '21st century' lifestyle of 2003

Posted March 10, 2012 - 8:01 am

Films from the '90s predicted airline seat selection, live sonograms and more. But they also said we'd be talking to our desktop computers (and mobile phones were a lot bigger).
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The trippiest video you'll watch today comes from AT&T

Posted March 6, 2012 - 4:26 pm

In 1974, AT&T produced this film called Telezonia, featuring a magical land of talking foam letters, numbers and a guy in a skirt.
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William Shatner talks microchips in this 1976 film

Posted March 1, 2012 - 12:50 pm

Join the voyage of learning about microprocessors with Captain Kirk.
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Time Machine: Why didn't Internet on TV take off in 1983?

Posted March 1, 2012 - 8:01 am

The $50 million Viewtron system had high hopes for people to access information from their TVs in the '80s. But people were still just interested in playing Donkey Kong instead.
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Telcos fire up new data centers

Posted February 23, 2012 - 11:25 pm

Calling for more data center space!
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Failed T-Mobile buyout costs AT&T's CEO $2.1 million

Posted February 22, 2012 - 2:58 pm

AT&T chief executive Randall Stephenson lost more than $2 million in compensation in 2011 because the telco's bid to buy T-Mobile USA failed in the face of antitrust concerns.
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Unable to keep up with its own success, AT&T blames customers for poor service

Posted February 15, 2012 - 2:53 pm

There is some justification to carriers' excuses about the data hoggery of smartphones: smartphones are data hogs, at least compared to dumb phones. AT&T goes further, bragging it signed up record numbers of users, then complaining they actually use the network.
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Computer security film from 1990 just as relevant today

Posted February 15, 2012 - 1:02 pm

Security issues in 1990 were just as big then, only the equipment has changed.
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Throttled iPhones help AT&T show how hard it is to drive smartphone customers away

Posted February 13, 2012 - 9:38 pm

Customers weren't thrilled when unlimited iPhone data plans ended, but none complained too much. Verizon got more expensive, but transparently. AT&T went with manipulation and cloaked accusations of data hoggery to push customers to tiered plans, or toward Verizon.
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1984 video on microprocessors shows early mobile phones in action

Posted February 13, 2012 - 6:15 pm

The AT&T Tech Archives are the gift that keeps on giving. After last week's video showcasing the Infoquest center, the team over there are adding new videos based on those shown at the exhibit.
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For Sprint shareholders, a test of faith

Posted February 8, 2012 - 7:08 pm

Sprint Nextel, which is banking on Apple's iPhone to reverse its slumping fortunes, reported widening losses in its fiscal fourth quarter.
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The AT&T InfoQuest Tour from 1986 is 6 minutes of Awesome

Posted February 6, 2012 - 5:41 pm

Singing about databases was never cooler in the 1980s.
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Time travel back to 1982 to see EPCOT's opening

Posted February 3, 2012 - 12:49 pm

AT&T archive film highlights Spaceship Earth, '80s fashions and other EPCOT goodies.
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AT&T salutes the mighty payphone

Posted February 2, 2012 - 1:38 pm

Get nostalgic for the days when you had to pump coins into a box so you could talk to someone on the phone...
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AT&T finds a SECOND Jim Henson robot film

Posted January 30, 2012 - 11:42 am

The folks at the AT&T Archives have uncovered another Jim Henson gem, a film that he made for the Bell Data Communications Seminar in 1963.
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