Wireline news from across the web:
@FierceTelecom RT @ Sheng Li Telecom: In the cloud, the IVR becomes a tool for customer satisfaction, not customer aggravation. Article | Follow @FierceTelecom
> Windstream will hold a conference call at 7:30 a.m. CDT on May 8 to review the company's first-quarter earnings results. Release
> Bezeq International has established a foothold in the Far East by building its first point of presence in Hong Kong. Article
> AT&T is offering up to one year of free U-verse High Speed Internet to many small businesses in Florida. Release
Cable News
> The conventional model where consumers receive premium cable television programming through a provider "will be broken...consumer behavior is doing it...and that's not a bad thing," Colleen Abdoulah, chairwoman of WideOpenWest and the American Cable Association said yesterday during a lunch at the ACA Summit. Article
> Tribune Digital Ventures said that it acquired TV by the Numbers, the firm that has supplied its Zap2it program guide with editorial content since 2010. Article
Online Video News
> Online video management provider Ooyala formed a "strategic relationship" with Microsoft that combines its software as a service (SaaS) products with Microsoft's Azure Media Services. Article
Wireless News
> Ecommerce giant Amazon is embarking on a major new effort to enable the sale of stuff in the real world. Article
> Google is weighing the possibility of launching its own wireless service in markets where it offers its Google Fiber high-speed Internet service, according to a report in The Information. Article
And finally… BT takes a look back at its mobile telegraph office during the 1872 Oxford vs. Cambridge Boat Race. Picture