AT&T has filed a lawsuit against Verizon Wireless after Big Red launched that “There’s a map of that” campaign. AT&T alleges that Verizon is misleading customers into thinking that AT&T doesn’t offer coverage in various areas of the U.S. The Trial has been filed in the Federal District Court in Atlanta and while we’ll be waiting for a ruling in favor of either AT&T or Verizon, AT&T has instructed its employees on how to respond to any questions regarding the trial.

Below you’ll find the memo with all the precise instructions:

Channels: COR, DMDR, LD, and NR Internal
Roles: Reps & Above
Markets: All
Contact: Your Manager

AT&T filed a lawsuit on November 4, 2009 against Verizon’s “There’s a Map for That” advertising campaign. Independent research shows that the maps in the advertisements mislead consumers into believing that we do not offer any wireless service in the vast majority of the country. In fact, AT&T’s 2.5G EDGE network covers 1.75 million square miles of the United States, reaching some 296 million people, roughly the same number reached by Verizon’s network. This network supports popular services like e-mail, surfing the Web, texting, and voice calling, including the activities shown in the Verizon TV advertisements. In addition, our 3G service, the nation’s fastest, is available in more than 9,400 cities and towns.

We filed the lawsuit in Federal District Court in Atlanta and asked that Verizon be prohibited from misleading consumers regarding the scope of our wireless network.

How should I respond to customers who ask about the lawsuit?

While we cannot speculate on the complaint filed, it is a great opportunity to remind customers of AT&T’s many advantages that over 81 million customers enjoy, including:

* Best Network
* The best coverage worldwide (More Bars in More PlacesTM).
* The nation’s fastest 3G network and the only national 3G carrier providing simultaneous voice and data usage.
* The most devices that work in the most places including Japan and South Korea (3G 2100 MHz device required).
* The nation’s largest wireless and wireline broadband provider.
* The nation’s largest company-owned and operated WiFi network with more than 20,000 hotspots, including Starbucks, McDonald’s and Barnes and Noble, as well as access to over 120,000 hotspots around the world.
* The leading provider of local and long distance voice services.

Greatest Value – The fairest value with Rollover® allowing customers to keep their unused minutes month to month.
Best Products - The most innovative exclusive devices such as the iPhoneTM 3GS.
Most Convenient Services
* The most customer friendly free self-service tools with *Services for checking usage, paying bills, and adding features.
* The most convenient and cost-effective way for customers to manage their accounts with Combined Billing for wireless and wireline products.
* Industry leading 30-day satisfaction guarantee.

As always, if you have an inquiry from the media, please refer them to your local media relations team member.

So what do you have to say? Do you have any questions for AT&T? Who would you like to see winning?

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If you’re looking to pre-order the Archos 9, you can do so now as it has just been put up for $549.99. While this is reportedly $50 more than Archos had originally said, but the specs (some what) make up for it.

This device comes with Windows 7 Starter, a 8.9-inch display, WiFi, Bluetooth and a 1.3mp camera. When exactly will we be seeing the Archos 9 ship? We’ll have to wait and find out.

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Tags: 1.3 mp, Archos 9, bluetooth, Uncategorized, WiFi, Windows 7

Considering all the e-readers that are hitting the market these days, I’m sure that there are many iPhone apps fit for this purpose. However, QuickReader is an eBook reader app designed to help eager readers “scan pages faster and remember more information”.

Users can set it from 100 to 2,000 words per minute, and customize it with different colors, spacing, backgrounds, fonts, and so on. QuickReader comes with some books, including the classic Black Beauty. QuickReader lite is available for free, and QuickReader pro is for $4.99.

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Tags: e-reader, iPhone, iphone app, mobile e-reader app, Mobile Software, QuickReader, Quickreader iPhone app, Uncategorized

Today at the Flat Display Panel (FDP) show in Japan revealed a transparent display. This is a 15 inch display, and it could easily change a lot of things. I mean, we’ve all seen glassy transparent displays before in science fiction movies, but usually those movies use special effects to produce that effect. Perhaps I’ll see more transparent displays at CES this January.

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I’m not certain why we haven’t covered this device before, but the Glide TV Navigator is a very interesting remote. You can use it to control a PC, Mac, or home theater. It has a tiny touchpad with scrolling areas and eight buttons like directional arrows, backspace, and escape. It also has some media buttons and an on-screen keyboard. You should be able to get it for about $150.

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For those that like to shoot video with the iPhone 3GS, this professional video grip could be what you’re looking for. This video stabilizer could be a “steadycam” for the iPhone, as there is far too much side movement when shooting on an iPhone 3GS in trying to hold it steady. The Zgrip iPhone Pro Z-ZG-IP is available at the Zaguto store for $295.00.

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I’m not at the age where I worry about my kids finding something bad online, but when my children are a little bit older, I might get the Kids Online Guard USB Stick. Once it is plugged in, it is designed to keep kids away from certain files, websites, and folders which are “inappropriate”. I’m not certain what happens if junior just unplugs it from the USB port, but I’m guessing the computer will go into some kind of “lock mode”. You should be able to purchase this for about $21.69.

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Everyone needs a card reader in this day and age, and Elecom has just released a whole bunch of them. The MR-C20 has a magnetic backing that allows it to stick to any metal area. It comes in lots of nice colors like black, white, fluorescent green, and hot pink for about $27.

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Take a gander at the Else Institution, it isn’t really isn’t out there because it was abandoned in development years ago. It uses Access’ Linux Platform v3.0 OS, which was totally ignored by Palm. The Institution has a 3.47 inch 480×854 with OMAP 3430 processor, internal memory of 16GB, A-GPS, a five megapixel camera, plus 3.5mm headphone jack. Apparently, “worldwide operator evaluations are currently underway”. Could we be seeing this phone anytime soon?

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In less than 10 minutes you will be able to watch U2 perform live on YouTube. The show starts at 8:30PM PT and anyone will be able to tune in and watch it. Well, almost anyone will be able to watch it as YouTube will make it available officially to only 16 countries: Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, South Korea, Spain, U.K. and the USA. But don’t worry, your country might also get it so don’t forget to tune in! The show is being streamed from the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California and we don’t need any tickets. Go grab your gear and start the party. What’s your favorite U2 song anyway?

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For those who have little ones who like to roam, then you might consider getting the Little Buddy from Insignia. The web interface can position the tracker with a map for custom “safety zones”. It will be available at Best Buy (Insignia’s parent company) shortly, but no word on cost or possible monthly fee that usually comes with these tracking services.

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If you didn’t know, Microsoft is planning to launch an update for Windows Mobile 6.5 that will update the operating system to 6.5.1. Why exactly they didn’t include this major overhaul in the 6.5 release is beyond me but what we have for you above is some eyecandy showing off the new mobile OS’ features.

As you can see, Windows Mobile 6.5.1 will clearly make it easier for the average user to operate the software using nothing more than their fingers with previous versions of Windows Mobile catering more towards a stylus.

When will 6.5.1 be out? We’ll have to wait until Microsoft says anything more to make any guesses.

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Tags: leak, screen shots, Uncategorized, Windows Mobile 6.5, Windows Mobile 6.5.1

Monster cable is offering a new version of headphones with the Miles Davis Tribute set, which will include a deluxe copy of his famous album, Kind of Blue. Of course, this isn’t the first time that Monster has released a headphone based on a music artist, as they have editions with Dr. Dre and Lady Gaga. The Miles Davis Tribute set is available for pre-order on the Monster Cable site, at a price of $399.95.

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Not too long ago rumors began to surface that RIM was working on a Bluetooth enabled BlackBerry watch that would give users the ability to preview messages, see who is calling and more without having to whip their handset out.

Today, CrackBerry has gotten their hands on the above pictures of what they are saying is the official BlackBerry watch possibly called the inPulse. This device was apparently manufactured out of house for RIM and features an OLED screen.

We’ll have to wait until more information is made known regarding this device.

Tags: BlackBerry, Cell Phones, Mobile News, Mobile Software, Portable Devices, render, Research In Motion, Research In Motion, rumor, Uncategorized, watch

Livescribe Pulse is quite a digital pen, and the company has recently announced that the memory will be updated from 2GB to 4GB. It will also have support for Macs, and Windows 7. In addition to this, it plans on expanding where customers can find the pens in stores like Best Buy, Apple stores, and even Staples.

The 4GB pulse will sell for about $199, and the 2GB version will be for $169.

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You know, for the longest time, I’ve made do with Tracfones.  They’re dirt cheap–thirty bucks every three months–and for as little as I use them, I don’t need a phone with a whole lot of bells and whistles.  At least, that’s what I thought before the crew out at Puremobile sent me a Nokia N97 to take a look at, and I got a first hand look at how stone-axe primitive I was living in terms of cell phones.

The Nokia N97 cell phone is a small, smooth smartphone that comes with a panoply of options so wide and varied that it made my head spin the first time I tried it.  This sucker comes with a five megapixel camera, GPS capability, map software, web browsing, and a fully functional QWERTY keyboard hidden underneath the phone’s front panel.  It has an autorotate sensor that lets you go from landscape to portrait with a flick of the wrist, 32 gigs of onboard storage and 128 megs of RAM.

I actually once used a COMPUTER with less RAM than this phone carries. The sheer number of options contained within this phone, the sheer number of things it can do, boggles my mind, and it seems like with every passing day, I find more things that this Swiss Army knife of a phone can do.

I confess to a certain amount of amazement with this phone.  It replaces so many things with a device roughly the size of two credit cards taped together.  Considering that, as far as I can tell from Amazon, this sucker has a retail cost of seven hundred dollars, this is a great one to consider if you want a top of the line model.  More budget conscious folks may want to stick with the Tracfone.

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The Pentax K-x, announced last month, was originally planned with just a few colors upon release including black, white, and red. For some odd reason, Pentax is putting out this multi-colored version based on the Kore Ja Nai robot toy that you see to the right of the chromatic camera itself. It will be on sale at the Pentax online store for about $880 with only 100 units. Personally, I think Pentax is trying to get in a little more money with the soon-to-be released CG version of Astro Boy.

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Samsung announced today the unveiling of the YP-VX1, a voice recorder. The YP-VX1 has more than just voice recording with MP3 playback and ID3 support, as well as the company’s DNSe sound enhancement technology.

Chances are, it will probably only have a Korean release, so don’t expect to get your hands on one unless you live there, and there is no word on pricing or availability.

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(Insert music from Apple iPhone Commercial here) What if you want to start your car, turn on the heat in your car, unlock the doors, unlock the trunk, or turn the alarm on or off?

There’s an app for that. In this case, it is the Viper SmartStart. The app is free, but you have to install the hardware module in the car yourself. However, you can do all the aforementioned things from anywhere as this module is connected to your iPhone via the cellular network.

Okay, now my car keys are on my iPhone. This is going to be the standard of things to come, right?

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For those who have ever received a ticket in the mail for running a red light, this next product is for you. Yes, they have the technology to take your picture, and now you have the technology to beat it.

The Right Light Camera Detector is exactly what it says it is: a device that detects red lights. I realize that it bears a strong resemblance to a GPS device, but it won’t help you get to where you want to go unless you are willing to run a few red lights along the way. It does have a GPS chip that will compare your automobile’s location with that of an internal database of up to 6,000 red light and speed camera locations.

You might ask if this is worth $200, and so am I.

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Tags: Auto, GPS, Portable Devices, Red light and speed camera, red light cameras, red light tickets, red lights, speed trap, Uncategorized