And just like that, AT&T’s $39 billion proposal to purchase T-Mobile USA is over. It’s dead. It’s not happening. On Monday, AT&T released a statement admitting the proposal’s defeat. This comes a day after sources for the Wall Street Journal said AT&T’s efforts to sell assets to smaller carriers to save the T-Mobile deal had hit a wall. AT&T now has to give T-Mobile USA’s parent company Deutsche Telekom $4 billion comprised of cash and spectrum.

As it turns out, the previous reports that Yahoo! was shutting down Delicious were not entirely accurate. Granted the whole thing seems a little strange, almost like Yahoo! wanted the tech press to rant about how much they would miss the social bookmarking site, but that aside. The latest details come from a posting over more »

The title really says it all in this case, Yahoo! has confirmed that they will be shutting down the social bookmarking site del.icio.us. Sad but true, of course, I guess your level of sadness will depend on whether you actually used the service. Me personally, I did, and currently had 1970 bookmarks that I saved more »

With a name that comes back like a blast, or maybe more like a nightmare from the past, CompuServe is back in the headlines. My nightmare of CompuServe came in the form of horrible dial up moments and hourly charges back in the early to mid nineties, but there was a CompuServe even before that more »