AT&WTF?
Cingular is set to officially become AT&T in a move that returns the former monopoly that was broken up by the government to its original form. AT&T plans to slowly phase out the Cingular name. As a Cingular customer I don’t know how I feel about this. Over the years I have become accustomed to saying, “God I hate Cingular!” Mayhaps this was AT&T’s plan all along - to create a brand that customers hate and then rename said brand to a familiar name with better service. Mayhaps not. In fact the name AT&T has been so obscure over the years that a lot of Cingular’s youthful target demographic have never even heard it.
I think Stephen Colbert explains the history of AT&T and its marriage with Cingular best:
In other news….
The Doomsday Clock has been moved forward two whole minutes, putting us closer to, uh, doom?