AT&T is hanging up on S.A. headquarters
 

AT&T Inc. is moving its corporate headquarters to Dallas from San Antonio for easier access to customers and operations around the world. The company plans to move 700 of its nearly 6,000 local employees to downtown Dallas by the end of the year. The telecommunications giant has been headquartered here since 1992, when it was Southwestern Bell Corp.

The 210 take: Oh, sure, Dallas might have plenty of direct flights at its airports and is already a telecom hub, but just try to find a good raspa there, suckas.

Puzzling bee crisis has farmers buzzing
 

Agriculture experts fear the mysterious disappearance of honeybees might cause food prices to jump.
Bee pollination is responsible for $15 billion annually in crop value. In 2006, beekeepers began reporting losing large numbers of their hives — a phenomenon that has become known as Colony Collapse Disorder. This year, beekeepers have lost 36 percent of their managed colonies.

The 210 take: Hmm, bees started disappearing in 2006 — the same year “The Santa Claus 3” came out. Coincidence or evidence of good taste?

Bush may have honor coming down the pipe
 
Ronald Reagan and William H. Taft have San Antonio high schools named after them, but George W. Bush might soon be the sole commander-in-chief to have a memorial named after him that you can contribute to from the bathroom. A measure on the ballot in San Francisco would rename one of the city’s sewage treatment plants after President Bush, in what supporters call “a fitting monument to the president’s work.”

The 210 take: When asked for comment, Bush called the idea “crappy.” He then giggled for the rest of the day.
 

Gates is out the door at Windows maker
 
Bill Gates has ended his tenure as Microsoft’s full-time leader. Gates is stepping back from the reins of the software giant — going part-time as board chairman so that he can spend more time on his global health charity. Gates, who founded Microsoft with Paul Allen in 1975, is credited for the emergence of software as a moneymaking industry and for building Microsoft into a hugely successful monopoly.

The 210 take: As a farewell gift, his employees gave Gates the hottest tech item around — an iPhone.
 

Who on Earth is afraid of a little black hole?

The most powerful atom-smasher ever built is expected to begin test runs in August. But some critics fear the Large Hadron Collider on the French and Swiss border could exceed physicists’ wildest conjectures. They fear the collider might spawn a black hole that could swallow Earth. One physicist estimated the chance of an accelerator producing a global catastrophe at one in 50 million – about the same odds as winning some lotteries.

The 210 take: Note to self: First purchase after winning the lottery: Vacation home on Mars.

With staff and wire reports