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AT&T strategist learns lessons of battlefield

This is the last in a series of profiles that look at how the tech industry is working with the federal government. WASHINGTON, D.C.–In October 2006 Jim Cicconi, a senior executive vice president at AT&T who heads up legislative affairs, took his team of top regulatory lawyers to Gettysburg to teach them battlefield strategy. For two days, 15 senior AT&T …

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Messaging phones of 2009

We’ve already listed our top cell phones and smartphones of the year, but we think the messaging phone has emerged as a strong enough category in 2009 that we think it deserves a top-10 list of its very own. Not quite smartphones, these handsets have full QWERTY keyboards and are made mostly for sending text messages. They come in all …

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