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		<title><![CDATA[Cable: Natural born monopoly?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=9620]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The second quarter results are out and it appears that the cable industry is winning share in broadband, phone and TV connections and handily thwarting encroachment by the likes of Verizon and AT&T. In fact, TV and broadband service is meant to be a monopoly and cable appears to be...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 01:55:47 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Icahn miffed at Yahoo response; Has Google envy too]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Icahn miffed at Yahoo response; Has Google envy tooSo companies run by engineers always win?You wrote:Google is run by engineers and that's why the company knocked the snot out of Yahoo.[End quote] Are marketing and operations so unimportant?Icahn's a money manAnd he appears to be looking at Yahoo strictly as...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:20:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[BellSouth shareholders approve AT]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[BellSouth shareholders approve ATCan you say Ma Bell?So this is it, we went to all that trouble to split Ma Bell into baby bells to increase competition and now Ma Bell is being allowed to return like the Borg by gobbling up her babies one by one? AT&T was once...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jul 2006 03:01:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[What does AT&T/BellSouth mean for consumers?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[What does AT&T/BellSouth mean for consumers?Actually, Ma Bell didn't have any competitionBell Teliphone Company, aka Ma Bell, didn't have any competitors when it was broken up in 1975.  That's the primary reason it was broken up.  Basically, it's monopoly lead to poor customer service, over charging for what...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Mar 2006 14:26:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Opening salvo in Net neutrality battle]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Opening salvo in Net neutrality battleMa Bell is rearing her head."The network builders are spending a fortune constructing and maintaining the networks [Why do they do this?  I would presume it is to make money.  Well, just how do they get that money?  From us.  The...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2006 10:07:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[VoIP wants to cut the computer cord]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[VoIP wants to cut the computer cordMa bell is gonna get mad!Ma Bell will call out the hit men before they let this go much further.TTY Since VoIP are popular with hearing consumers...I have a question. Is there a VoIP service that can open a data channel that when I...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2005 06:52:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ma Bell to have local rebirth online?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ma Bell to have local rebirth online?Let me get this straight.  The Baby Bellsconvinced the FCC to do away with wholesaling to other carriers to protect their investment in the infrastructure.  This resulted in AT&T, for one, to drop services.  This, in effect, lowered the possible future...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2005 08:19:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[SBC, AT&T say Bell breakup doesn't work]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[SBC, AT&T say Bell breakup doesn't workWow could Bell be back?With SBC basically going around buying out the larger baby bells and then a merger with AT&T? This is interesting.And We want breakup of Microsoft???I know...I know...I know...Microsoft is hated by??...But breaking up is the remedy? Look at this Bell...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2005 12:07:00 -0800</pubDate>
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