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Today's e-Reads, Updated: Management Reshuffle at AT&T

January 31, 2012 | 4:57 PM

A month after its bid to buy rival T-Mobile USA was derailed, AT&T announced it is reshuffling its management by putting a company veteran in a new position where he will help chart the company's future business strategy, Reuters reports.

Members of the Senate Judiciary subcommittee questioned calls to update a 1988 law aimed at protecting privacy of video rental records, PC World reports.

Amazon announced that its fourth quarter profits fell by 57 percent due to increased shipping costs and its Kindle Fire, which the Internet retailer is selling at a loss, according to Bloomberg.

USA Today reports that scammers are targeting those Facebook users who are wary of the company's plans to roll out its new Timeline service.

Apple has become the world's top PC maker -- if its popular iPad tablet is included in the definition of a personal computer, according to Information Week.

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Juliana Gruenwald

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Juliana Gruenwald has been covering tech and telecom issues for more than a decade for National Journal, Interactive Week, BNA and Congressional Quarterly. This is her second stint with National Journal. She was recruited by NJ in 1998 to help launch its first tech policy publication, Technology Daily. She left in 2000 to cover international tech and telecom issues for Ziff Davis Media's Interactive Week magazine. She started her career at United Press International as the wire service's first Helen Thomas Intern. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Minnesota. A Minneapolis native, she misses the lakes but not the cold.


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Adam Mazmanian

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Adam Mazmanian reports on technology for National Journal. He comes to NJ from SmartBrief, where he was a senior editor on the advertising, media and digital beats. Before moving to Washington, D.C., he worked as worked in New York City as an editor at AOL, About.com and the alternative newsweekly New York Press. He’s contributed book reviews, pop music criticism and film writing to Washington City Paper, the Washington Times, the Washington Post, Newsday, Architect Magazine and elsewhere. He lives in the Petworth neighborhood of Washington, D.C. with his wife and son.


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Josh Smith

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Josh Smith covers technology policy as a staff reporter for National Journal. He previously interned at National Journal Daily, a Senate press office, and the Deseret News in Salt Lake City where he covered the state legislature, courts, and crime. In 2009 he graduated with honors from Southern Utah University after managing an award-winning student newspaper as editor-in-chief. Josh has received state, regional and national awards for his political and policy reporting, including first place in CapitolBeat’s 2009 Best of Statehouse Reporting college competition. A native of drop-dead-gorgeous Utah, Josh lives in Virginia with his wife, Amber.