Among the earnings stories for Tuesday, Oct. 13, from AP Financial News:

AT&T Missouri has agreed to pay $1.4 million to settle a federal lawsuit alleging it violated the rules to receive school Internet contracts.

The FCC  will look into complaints by AT&T that Google's free messaging and calling service, Google Voice, blocks calls to rural communities where local phone companies charge high connection fees.

Vonage Holdings Corp., an Internet-based home phone service provider, is launching applications for the iPhone and BlackBerry that undercut the international calling rates of major wireless carriers.

More than 20 million other smartphone users are on the AT&T network, but other phones do not drain the network the way the nine million iPhones users do.  Howls of protest are more numerous in the dense urban areas with higher concentrations of iPhone owners.

Sony says it is going to offer an e-book reader with the ability to wirelessly download books. That adopts a key feature of the Kindle from Amazon.com and enhances the competition in a small but fast-growing market.

CNBC Contributor David Pogue looks at all the things Congress should be doing to fix the cellphone industry.

With all its riches, how can anyone call Google a "small" company, one that is vulnerable to competition and whose luck could turn any day? Dana Wagner is happy to explain, says the New York Times.

Apple says it sold more than a million units of its latest iPhone model in the first three days, making it the most successful debut for a smartphone yet.