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AT&T customers surprised by 'unlimited data' limit

AT&T customers surprised by 'unlimited data' limit

Mike Trang likes to use his iPhone 4 as a GPS device, helping him get around in his job. Now and then, his younger cousins get ahold of it, and play some YouTube videos and games.

GCI to connect Southwest with broadband

GCI to connect Southwest with broadband

Southwest Alaska is ready to get online a year after General Communications Inc. broke ground on a historic project to bring high-speed internet access to the region.

ACS takes long view with dividend cut

The board of directors of Alaska Communications voted Dec. 21 to lower its quarterly divided in a move that will free up nearly $30 million in cash flow annually for the Anchorage-based telecom.

Alaska Communications trims dividend

Anchorage-based Alaska Communications has lowered its annualized dividend to shareholders by 77 percent as it prepares for less federal support and a new competitor.

AT&T slams FCC report on T-Mobile merger

AT&T Inc. blasted the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday for compiling what it called an unfair and biased report on what would happen if AT&T were allowed to buy T-Mobile USA.

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FAA to implement ADS-B nationwide within a decade

FAA to implement ADS-B nationwide within a decade

A small aviation company is making big strides in getting its technology to become an industry standard. A long-awaited reauthorization from the Federal Aviation Administration adds widespread installation real-time safety technology in 2020.

High school kids duke it out...with robots

High school kids duke it out...with robots

First Tech Challenge Anchorage qualifying tournament at South Anchorage High School

Fairbanks-based Kryptek to help develop camo for the U.S. Army

Fairbanks-based Kryptek to help develop camo for the U.S. Army

Butch Whiting displays a woodland camouflage pattern developed by his Fairbanks-based company, Kryptek.

Fire Island Wind sets lines

Fire Island Wind sets lines

Fire Island Wind Energy

Getting caffeine fix as easy as taking deep breath

Getting caffeine fix as easy as taking deep breath

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Move over, coffee and Red Bull. A Harvard professor thinks the next big thing will be people inhaling their caffeine from a lipstick-sized tube. Critics say the novel product is not without its risks.

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John Glenn fever gripping Cape Canaveral — again

John Glenn fever gripping Cape Canaveral — again

John Glenn fever has taken hold of Cape Canaveral once again. Three days before the 50th anniversary of his historic flight, the first American to orbit the Earth addressed employees at Kennedy Space Center.

Weirdly Wonderful: a collection of artifacts from Atomic Age

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (AP) — Radium-powered golf balls. Fishing lures that glow in the dark. Atomic potions that add pep to your step and cure all that ails you.

Agencies pledge science-based Arctic decisions

Agencies pledge science-based Arctic decisions

The federal government will make a renewed commitment to incorporate science into Arctic energy decisions, the Interior Department's deputy secretary said Tuesday, including the development of a tool used in the government response to the BP oil well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico.

USGS uses airborne tool to map Alaska permafrost

A tool used by mining companies to find mineral ores has been adapted to map frozen soils below the ground in Alaska and could be used to track the effects of global warming, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Astronomers see more planets than stars in galaxy

Astronomers see more planets than stars in galaxy

WASHINGTON (AP) — The more astronomers look for other worlds, the more they find that it’s a crowded and crazy cosmos. They think planets easily outnumber stars in our galaxy and they’re even finding them in the strangest of places.

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