Corporate Affinity

Verizon, the phone company I love to hate (but which nevertheless runs my life via DSL and CDMA), is joining forces with Yahoo, my Internet lifestyle partner. (And dumping MSN in the process.) Let's hope the Baby Bell learns from the dot.com and not the other way around. Yahoo's existing partnership with SBC includes designing portals for their IP television service, which may foretell a Yahoo tie-in to Verizon's forthcoming "Fios" high-speed Internet, phone and video service. Heck, I'd just be happy with better-than-128kbps upload speeds.