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Radio Hacker Interrupts Police Chase in Australia [telecom]
Radio Hacker Interrupts Police Chase in Australia By Catalin Cimpanu A pirate broadcaster posing as a police officer interfered in a police chase this week in Australia, forcing officers to call off...
 
Scammers using robo-calls about insurance to fleece Hurricane Harvey survivors [telecom]
Scammers using robo-calls about insurance to fleece Hurricane Harvey survivors By Joel Achenbach Amid the many feel-good stories about strangers helping strangers in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, a...
 
Hurricane Harvey leaves Texans without internet, phone service [telecom]
By Samantha Ehlinger Hurricane Harvey knocked out cable, internet or telephone service to more than 180,000 homes, 364 cellular towers and disrupted service at 16 centers that process 911 calls in...
 
AT&T outage map [telecom]
Recent reports mostly originate from: Houston, Mountain View, Duluth, Baytown, Dallas, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Arkadelphia, and Austin. has a list of problem areas, almost all in Texas....
 
Sixty years ago - W.U. pioneer data transmission and error detection [telecom]
In 1957, Western Union telegraph facilities were used to transmit remote data to computers for processing. Teleprinter terminals were also used for interactive processing. Because of the amount of...
 
Texans' do-it-ourselves rescue effort defines Hurricane Harvey [telecom]
Texans' do-it-ourselves rescue effort defines Hurricane Harvey People from the Lone Star State have an almost genetic disinclination to rely on the government for anything. So during Hurricane Harvey,...
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Philadelphia jury finds Verizon fired a woman for taking a medical leave [telecom]
The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that a Verizon employee with more than three decades at the company was fired after taking an approved family leave for shoulder surgery. She sued, and after a...
 
AT&T absurdly claims that most "legitimate" net neutrality comments favor repeal [telecom]
AT&T ignores finding that 98.5% of unique comments favor net neutrality rules. By Jon Brodkin Despite a study showing that 98.5 percent of individually written net neutrality comments support the US's...
 
Comcast sues Vermont to avoid building 550 miles of new cable lines [telecom]
Comcast has sued the state of Vermont to try to avoid a requirement to build 550 miles of new cable lines. Comcast's lawsuit against the Vermont Public Utility Commission (VPUC) was filed Monday in US...
 
Qualcomm covers all the bases with a cellular "vehicle-to-everything" chipset [telecom]
It combines the cellular modem and direct short-range radio together in one. By Jonathan M. Gitlin A few weeks ago, I wondered whether connected cars might end up using LTE modems for Vehicle to...
 
NYPD head of IT doubles down on Windows smartphone idiocy [telecom]
But, but, but they gave them to us for free, says tech boss By Kieren McCarthy The woman responsible for a catastrophic decision to equip New York police officers with Windows smartphones, all of...
 
US government: We can jail you indefinitely for not decrypting your data
The US government is fighting to keep a former police officer in prison because he claims not to be able to remember the code to decrypt two hard drives under investigation. Francis Rawls, a former...
 
Asterisk bugs make a right mess of RTP [telecom]
By Richard Chirgwin Admins of the popular IP telephony application Asterisk have a lovely end to the week ahead of them - there's two moderate vulnerabilities, and one critical mess, that need...
 
The Future of the Smartphone: It's All About the Camera [telecom]
The Smartphone's Future: It's All About the Camera. The devices are poised to get smarter as advances are made in scanning 3-D objects like your face. SAN FRANCISCO - We all know the drill. For the...
 
Some Ohio residents having difficulty calling 911 [telecom]
LICKING COUNTY, OHIO - Licking County residents who have a 740-893 prefix to their landline phone numbers are currently experiencing issues dialing 911. The Licking County Emergency Management Agency...