News Briefs - Fri Oct 13, 2006

It’s A Camera. It’s A Phone. It’s A Samsung SCH-B600
Samsung has released the world’s first 10-megapixel camera phone. If you’ve followed digital cameras, you know that this phone’s camera resolution is up there with the best of the digital cameras. The B600 also has 3x optical zoom and 5x digital zoom and a built-in TV jack. Digital content can be streamed to a TV set. Price is nearly a g-note (US$937). [via Teleclick]

BCE To Be Eliminated
BCE plans to fold up operations and turn Bell Canada - Canada’s largest telecom - into an income trust. This will result in more cash distributions for shareholders. [via CNS]

BellSouth + AT&T Merger: DoJ Yes, FCC Maybe
The US DoJ (Dept of Justice) has given their approval for the merger of BellSouth and AT&T. The FCC on the other hand has delayed their verdict, apparently due to disapproval that no conditions are being imposed on the merger by the DoJ. (Consider the reasons for deregulation of the telecom industry in the 1990s in the first place.)