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Security Breach and Spilled Secrets Have Shaken the N.S.A. to Its Core [telecom]
Security Breach and Spilled Secrets Have Shaken the N.S.A. to Its Core WASHINGTON - Jake Williams awoke last April in an Orlando, Fla., hotel where he was leading a training session. Checking Twitter,...
 
FCC tries to help cable companies avoid state consumer protection rules [telecom]
FCC tries to help cable companies avoid state consumer protection rules By Jon Brodkin The FCC wants to block Minnesota from regulating Charter's VoIP phone service. The Federal Communications...
 
Logitech will brick its Harmony Link hub for all owners in March [telecom]
Logitech will brick its Harmony Link hub for all owners in March The ugly side of gadgets that depend on the cloud Logitech has announced that it's shutting down all services for the Harmony Link hub,...
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What You Need to Know About the New ID Law and Travel [telecom]
What You Need to Know About the New ID Law and Travel By Shivani Vora The Real ID Act, which takes effect in early 2018, will require some air travelers to have identification other than a driver's...
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Justice Department Says Not So Fast to AT&T's Time Warner Bid [telecom]
Justice Department Says Not So Fast to AT&T's Time Warner Bid CNN, a network criticized by Trump, figures in a dispute between the government and AT&T, setting up a battle over the pending $85.4...
 
This Time, Facebook Is Sharing Its Employees' Data [telecom]
This Time, Facebook Is Sharing Its Employees' Data Some of the biggest companies turn over their workers' most personal information to the troubled credit reporting agency Equifax. Users of Facebook...
 
CenturyLink, Level 3 To Partners: We Will Go Head-To-Head With AT&T, Verizon [telecom]
by Gina Narcisi The new CenturyLink wants to build a premier partner program to go along with its renewed focus on serving enterprise customers. CenturyLink on Wednesday closed its $34 billion...
 
"Advertising on hold" [telecom]
Many businesses now play ad spiels to callers while they're waiting on HOLD. This is very annoying. It's particularly irritating when calling a medical practice. Usually you're upset enough when you...
 
The merger between AT&T and Time Warner is a raw deal for the rest of us [telecom]
Posted yesterday by Sen. Al Franken It's long been impossible to imagine a family budget that doesn't include line items like electricity, gas, and groceries. Today, it's impossible to omit digital...
 
AT&T says timing of Time Warner deal completion now uncertain [telecom]
(Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Justice is pushing AT&T Inc for "structural remedies" in order to satisfy antitrust concerns over its purchase of Time Warner Inc, a source told Reuters on...
 
[telecom] Comcast asks the FCC to make sure states can't pass their own net neutrality laws
by Daniel Frankel, FierceCable, Nov 7, 2017 Comcast is lobbying the FCC, asking the agency to make it clear in its new net neutrality laws that states can't adopt different rules. "The Commission's...
 
DON'T PAY VERIZON'S $10 'PREMIUM VIDEO' UPCHARGE [telecom]
Don't Pay Verizon's $10 'Premium Video' Upcharge There's a lot not to like about Verizon's initiative, which kicks in Friday, to charge $10 per month extra - per line! - for the privilege of streaming...
 
Bamboozled: Dispute over Verizon cell phone offer infuriates customer [telecom]
By Karin Price Mueller Lisa Watznauer has been a customer of Verizon Wireless for more than a decade. When she was ready for a new cell phone, she shopped around on the company's website until she...
 
No end in sight in WBOC dispute with Verizon Fios [telecom]
By Jeff Neiburg The dispute between Draper Media's WBOC and Verizon Fios is still going more than a month after Verizon stopped carrying WBOC stations. And there doesn't appear to be an end in sight...
 
How Level 3's Tiny Error Shut Off the Internet for Parts of the US. [telecom]
How Level 3's Tiny Error Shut Off the Internet for Parts of the US A YEAR AGO, a DDoS attack caused internet outages around the US by targeting the internet-infrastructure company Dyn, which provides...