LOS ANGELES — AT&T Inc. said Monday that it is ending its $39 billion bid to buy T-Mobile USA after facing fierce government objections. The cellphone giant said that the actions of the government to block the deal do not ...

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Hughes Network Systems LLC of Germantown, a provider of broadband satellite services, said it has been awarded a contract to provide an airborne satellite communications system for an unidentified U.S. government agency. The Hughes-supplied equipment will be used for in-flight ...

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A foreign telecommunications company has been ordered to pay its Linthicum Heights-based business partner more than $45 million after taking investment funds to build a cellphone network in Iraq and then backing out on the deal. Judge Timothy J. McCrone ...

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SAN FRANCISCO — Imagine using your Xbox and switching from a game to a video chat with a faraway friend holding an iPad. Or going into your office email to invite Grandma to a virtual family reunion beamed on TV ...

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The Daily Record hosted its fifth annual Influential Marylanders awards ceremony on Wednesday, April 27 at the Grand Lodge in Hunt Valley. Fifty people in ten categories — including health care, technology, real estate and civic leadership — were honored for their influences to the state of Maryland.

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MARQUETTE  — President Barack Obama promoted plans Thursday to bring high-speed wireless to nearly all American households, pushing his domestic agenda in a small, snowy city in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula on a day of dramatic developments in Egypt. Obama kept ...

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Shares of Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. surged more than 10 percent Wednesday after the Hunt Valley-based company reported that it had turned a $33.1 million profit in the fourth quarter, compared to a $67.8 million loss the year before. The ...

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LAS VEGAS — Big tablets and small tablets, white ones and black ones. Cheap ones and expensive ones. Brand names famous and obscure at the starting line of a race where the iPad is already a speeding dot near the ...

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