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So they sent out a press release to their own employees instead of bothering to write an email?

by vaksel 17y ago

cjbos 17y ago
I work at AT&T Labs, and yes we generally get informed via an email with an attached press release.
- quizbiz 17y ago
  a tangent: May I ask what AT&T Labs does?
  - cjbos 17y ago
    R&D in alot of different areas. Probably more famous when we were Bell Labs and came up with things like the transistor, coaxial cable, Unix, C++, Radar, Radio Astronomy (Echo of the Big Bang) etc but more recently research has been focussed on communications and networks. My team reports up to the CSO for AT&T and are prototyping different tools and solutions that ICDS (The AT&T CDN) can offer their clients, we are building an application he can use for his virtual security conference at the end of the year. We also work closely with the Mobility Security Research team, they actually have a fully functional test cell site in the building which is kinda cool. Most of the stuff my team does is not externally visible, but we did build this little site to start showing some of the decades of content AT&T has (Though its not primarily what we do). http://techchannel.att.com/ http://techchannel.att.com/ I like the Tech Icon series, good interviews with Bill Cheswick and Cliff Stoll.
geedee77 17y ago
If you work at any big company you'd know it's often standard practice to send out press releases and market statements internally to inform staff of what's happening.
- noodle 17y ago
  standard practice seems to be to first toss the PR to employees so that they're informed beforehand, and to check to make sure no mistakes were included. then, to the public.
wglb 17y ago
There was a note on their web page at least as early as yesterday saying essentially the same thing as above.
- pyre 17y ago
  I think he was commenting on the lack of AT&T composing an actual email for employees instead of just attaching the same press release that they put out to the public.

So they sent out a press release to their own employees instead of bothering to write an email?

by vaksel 17y ago

So they sent out a press release to their own employees instead of bothering to write an email?

cjbos 17y ago

I work at AT&T Labs, and yes we generally get informed via an email with an attached press release.

quizbiz 17y ago
a tangent: May I ask what AT&T Labs does?
- cjbos 17y ago
  R&D in alot of different areas. Probably more famous when we were Bell Labs and came up with things like the transistor, coaxial cable, Unix, C++, Radar, Radio Astronomy (Echo of the Big Bang) etc but more recently research has been focussed on communications and networks. My team reports up to the CSO for AT&T and are prototyping different tools and solutions that ICDS (The AT&T CDN) can offer their clients, we are building an application he can use for his virtual security conference at the end of the year. We also work closely with the Mobility Security Research team, they actually have a fully functional test cell site in the building which is kinda cool. Most of the stuff my team does is not externally visible, but we did build this little site to start showing some of the decades of content AT&T has (Though its not primarily what we do). http://techchannel.att.com/ http://techchannel.att.com/ I like the Tech Icon series, good interviews with Bill Cheswick and Cliff Stoll.

geedee77 17y ago

If you work at any big company you'd know it's often standard practice to send out press releases and market statements internally to inform staff of what's happening.

noodle 17y ago
standard practice seems to be to first toss the PR to employees so that they're informed beforehand, and to check to make sure no mistakes were included. then, to the public.

wglb 17y ago

There was a note on their web page at least as early as yesterday saying essentially the same thing as above.

pyre 17y ago
I think he was commenting on the lack of AT&T composing an actual email for employees instead of just attaching the same press release that they put out to the public.