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Verizon's great FiOS offer to me: Pay $50 extra for slower Internet [telecom]
Verizon today claimed that it is "disrupt[ing] the cable industry" with new broadband-and-TV deals that eliminate "traditional cable bundles" and hidden fees, and the move immediately received...
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US Government-funded Android phones come preinstalled with unremovable malware [telecom]
Phones were sold to low-income people under the FCC's Lifeline Assistance program. By Dan Goodin An Android phone subsidized by the US government for low-income users comes preinstalled with malware...
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Why is a 22GB database containing 56 million US folks' personal
Why is a 22GB database containing 56 million US folks' personal details sitting on the open internet using a Chinese IP address? Seriously, why? If CheckPeople could take a look at this, that would be...
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How to spot a Photoshopped image, or, The Problem with the Internet [telecom]
How to spot a Photoshopped image, or, The Problem with the Internet Tips for members of Congress and other Americans. "No one said the president of Iran was dead. No one said Obama met with Rouhani in...
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Inside the Billion-Dollar Battle Over .Org
Inside the Billion-Dollar Battle Over .Org A private equity firm wants to buy the internet domain used by nonprofits. A group of online pioneers says it is not the place to maximize profits. Two...
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Marion Police Department Experiences 911 Phone Outage [telecom]
January 4, 2020 The Marion Police Department is reporting a disruption in inbound calls to its emergency 9-1-1 telephone system. According to a report from MPD, 9-1-1 may not be available in some...
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VZW CDMA Network Retirement
We are moving all devices to our HD Voice LTE network, which offers superior coverage and performance compared to previous generation networks. Starting January 1, 2020, Verizon will no longer allow...
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Re: Corporations Forcing Workers To Train Their Foreign
I am no expert on economics, but I think the trend of outsourcing labor overseas is a bad idea and unnecessary. Sure, all businesses want to save money and sometimes overseas labor can do so. But, in...
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See the Future of Caller ID - And How it can Stop Scam Robocallers [telecom]
If you loathe robocalls, you might just love this story. We have an inside look at a new type of caller ID that's designed to shut down scammers. By Chris Chmura, James Jackson and Joe Rojas Robocalls...
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Corporations Forcing Workers To Train Their Foreign Replacements [telecom]
Corporations Forcing Workers To Train Their Foreign Replacements By Farron Cousins Donald Trump swore that he was going to bring American jobs back to this country, but he's done absolutely nothing to...
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More Teletype trivia [telecom]
AP always required: Carriage Return Line Feed Letters at the end of each line; this insured that even when the receiving machine falsely jumped into Figures during the carriage return glich, it would...
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Fresh Cambridge Analytica leak 'shows global manipulation is out
Company's work in 68 countries laid bare with release of more than 100,000 documents By Carole Cadwalladr An explosive leak of tens of thousands of documents from the defunct data firm Cambridge...
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Sinclair-Tied Stations Say AT&T 'Misled' FCC In Dispute [telecom]
A group of Sinclair-linked TV stations have told the Federal Communications Commission that AT&T's pay TV units "misled" the agency into believing the broadcasters' common agent dropped the ball amid...
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NBC: How our phones became our whole lives in just 10 years
NBC News reported that our phones are amazing, but we have come to rely on them too much. I see it every day when trying to recover the minutiae of a life from a ruined device. A person who runs a...
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California Supreme Court Incommodes Wireless Access To Rights Of Way [telecom]
by W. Ray Rutngamlug and Amanda Witt Amidst the ongoing power struggle between communications service providers striving for unfettered access to rights-of-way to place their facilities, and...
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