On rumors of a January Apple tablet unveiling, the company’s stock closes as an all time high Thursday of $209.04, up 3.43 percent.

I buy a lot of things that are delivered by UPS or FedEx. And I kinda like to watch the progress of the shipments. Now we all know that UPS and FedEx have different grades of service—Overnight, Two Day, Three Day, etc. And faster deliver costs more.

As the feds contemplate strict rules on ISPs, AT&T says it’s a huge fan of the open internet — in principle. It’s just that regulations are a pain.

If you’re a Verizon Wireless customer who pays a chunk of change each month for mobile broadband, Verizon is now tossing in access to its 11,000 Wi-Fi hotspots for no extra charge. There are nearly 1,000 Verizon hotspots in Orange County.

(Telecompaper) Verizon has deployed a commercial 100G ultra-long-haul optical system for live private IP traffic with Nortel. This system was deployed on the company’s European optical core network between Paris and Frankfurt. Verizon is using Nortel’s commercially available 100G system to carry live traffic between Verizon’s core routers over the 893-km route without modifying the system. The …