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NEW YORK, Aug. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- With Aug. 11 almost here, Verizon hopes this date (8/11) will serve as a natural reminder for residents to call 811 to have underground utility lines marked before initiating any digging project. Marking its fifth anniversary, this nationwide call-before-you-dig number was established by the Federal Communications Commission to provide an easy, free method for protecting underground utility lines. A recent report released by the Common...
NEW YORK, July 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, NASDAQ: VZ) today closed its previously announced acquisition of HUGHES Telematics Inc.(HTI), setting Verizon on a course to accelerate growth through the delivery of advanced automotive and fleet telematics and machine-to-machine services. The addition of HTI will expand and accelerate Verizon Enterprise Solutions' capabilities for automotive, transportation, health care and other industries to uncover and...
NEW YORK, July 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon FiOS, in agreement with NBCUniversal, today announced a multiplatform content offering for NBCUniversal's coverage of the London 2012 Summer Olympic Games to commence on Wednesday, July 25, through Sunday, August 12. Designed to provide video subscribers with access to NBCUniversal's more than 5,535 hours of unprecedented Olympic programming, this offering represents the largest number of total Olympics hours ever. Verizon will offer...
NEW YORK, July 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- 2Q 2012 HIGHLIGHTS Consolidated 64 cents in diluted earnings per share (EPS), compared with 57 cents per share in 2Q 2011 - a 12.3 percent increase. $9.3 billion in cash flow from operating activities, up 20.1 percent compared with 2Q 2011, leading to $7.8 billion in free cash flow (non-GAAP) in 1H 2012, more than doubling free cash flow generated in 1H 2011. Wireless 7.3 percent year-over-year increase in service revenues in...
NEW YORK, July 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ) will report second-quarter 2012 earnings on Thursday, July 19. Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Francis J. Shammo will present results on a webcast beginning at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time. Access instructions and presentation materials, including Verizon's earnings release, will be available at 7:30 a.m. on Verizon's Investor Relations Web site, www.verizon.com/investor. VERIZON'S...
NEW YORK, July 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon has enlisted Best Buy's Geek Squad to provide a new set of services to meet the increasingly complex information technology requirements of small and mid-size businesses across the country. Verizon designed the solution, IT Help Desk, to help small and medium-sized companies, which often cannot support in-house staffing resources, keep the focus on their business by leaving technology challenges and opportunities to a dedicated team...
BASKING RIDGE, N.J., July 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A major problem in the provision of health care is how to improve the quality of care without increasing costs. With advances in health information technology, there is an opportunity to leverage it to improve the provision of care and enhance the patient experience and outcome. "This is an unprecedented time for transition in the health care ecosystem through the use of technology," said Dr. Peter Tippett, chief medical officer...
NEW YORK, July 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- For the seventh year, Black Enterprise magazine has named Verizon to the publication's list of 40 Best Companies for Diversity. The elite companies were selected based on their commitment to diversity in four key areas: employee base, senior management representation, supplier diversity and board of directors. The 40 Best Companies for Diversity list is featured in the July issue of Black Enterprise, now available on newsstands, and on the...
NEW YORK and GREENVILLE, S.C., July 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Zipit Wireless, a pioneer in connected platform solutions, today launched a new smartphone app for mobile phones and tablets, and added VoIP capabilities to the Zipit Enterprise Critical Messaging Solution, available exclusively through Verizon. These new options will further enable health care professionals to accelerate their critical decision-making and provide better collaborative care for patients....
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Wireless carriers received more than 1.3 million requests for customer cell phone records from federal, state and local law enforcement agencies in 2011, sometimes with little judicial oversight and no consumer knowledge, according to a recent congressional inquiry into wireless surveillance practices. These requests, which have skyrocketed in the past few years, include information about an individual's text messages, caller...
