Andrew Auernheimer: 41 months of jail and a $73,000 fine for querying AT&T servers

"It looks like Andew got slammed into a desk by federal agents while trying to hand his phone to his lawyer after the court asked for his phone," his publicist told me via email.

Terrorist, hacker, freedom fighter: Andrew Auernheimer parties tonight in expectation of jail tomorrow

"It's a f*cking ludicrous charge," Auernheimer told me this morning from New Jersey. "The FBI has tried to frame me for terrorism five times, and by their own admission they've been surveilling me since I was 15 years old."

Verizon: We’re America’s 4G LTE king

Verizon is the king of fast cellular networks in America, or so it says. And it's hard to argue with the company's numbers.

FreedomPop adds free calls & texts to free Internet to ‘basically screw AT&T and Verizon’

FreedomPop, which already offers free wireless Internet service, is announcing a partnership with TextPlus today that will enable it to also offer free voice calls and free texts.

AT&T sold 110K smartphones a day last quarter, including 7.2M iPhones and 2.2M Android phones

AT&T took a moment to toot its own horn this morning, announcing that it sold more than 10 million smartphones in the last quarter.

More sad news on why Americans pay so much for crappy Internet and phone service

In his new book The Fine Print, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston tell us, among other things, what's wrong with the Internet in America. The answer is fairly depressing: It's too slow, too expensive, and too controlled by a duopoly of AT&T and Verizon.

Salesforce, AT&T, Motorola, AMD: 4 tech companies that pay their CEO more than they pay Uncle Sam

SalesForce, AT&T, Motorola, and AMD are four tech companies in a group most CEOs would love to belong to, but most public relations departments would hate.

The American taxpayer? She might hate it too.

Former AT&T employee admits to selling key info on Blackberry, iPhone

The U.S. government’s ongoing crusade against insider trading has claimed its latest victim.

Alnoor Ebrahim, a former network consultant for AT&T, admitted on Monday that he fed sensitive information to traders and hedge fund managers, who then used that information …

Amazon’s ad-supported Kindle is its best-selling e-reader

The digerati pooh-poohed it, but Amazon.com’s advertising-supported Kindle 3G with Special Offers is now the company’s top-selling e-book device.

Amazon made the revelation in its quarterly earnings report Tuesday. The $139 device is $50 cheaper than the comparable Kindle 3G, …