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FCC chair wants carriers to block robocalls from spoofed numbers [telecom]
FCC chair wants carriers to block robocalls from spoofed numbers The FCC in 2015 made it clear that voice service providers can offer call blocking tools to customers, but commissioners said at the...
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802.eleventy what? A deep dive into why Wi-Fi kind of sucks [telecom]
802.eleventy what? A deep dive into why Wi-Fi kind of sucks When wireless networking based around the 802.11b standard first hit consumer markets in the late nineties, it looked pretty good on paper....
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[telecom] FCC grants emergency "unblocking" of CNID to Jewish Centers
This is in response to the numerous (over a hundred in the current wave) bomb threats phoned in to Jewish Community Centers and similar facilities [FCC Press Release] The Federal Communications...
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[telecom] Feds make arrest re: some of those bomb threats to Jewish facilities
[DOJ press release] [snippeth] U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said: "Everyone deserves to be free from fear and discrimination based on religion, race, or ethnicity; that is fundamental to who we are as...
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Google and mobile phones threaten yellow pages directory [telecom]
The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that Verizon's white-pages residential phone books have lost mass appeal. Now, even the popular ad-supported yellow pages of business phone listings could soon...
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Man sets sail using iPad for navigation, crashes into ferry when wifi disappears [telecom]
By Tanveer Mann A man decided it would be a good idea to set sail in his Second World War boat with just his iPad [for] navigation. David Carlin, 34, didn't last that long though, because soon after,...
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Maker Of Remotely-Accessible Talking Teddy Bear Leaked 2 Million Parent and Kids Message Recordings [telecom]
"Internet of Things" Teddy Bear Leaked 2 Million Parent and Kids Message Recordings By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai A company that sells internet-connected teddy bears that allow kids and their...
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FCC to halt rule that protects your private data from security breaches [telecom]
By Jon Brodkin The Federal Communications Commission plans to halt implementation of a privacy rule that requires ISPs to protect the security of its customers' personal information. The data security...
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A major security flaw means you have to change your passwords again. [telecom]
A major security flaw means you have to change your passwords again. By Hayley Tsukayama A security flaw at Cloudflare means that Uber, Fitbit, OK Cupid and other users may have had their passwords...
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Apple Doesn't Need to Buy Netflix [telecom]
Calls for Apple to buy Netflix are getting louder. Instead of evaluating whether Apple should buy Netflix, a more valuable question is whether or not Apple actually needs to buy Netflix to accomplish...
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USA: "Data" SIMM Card That Does Not Expire? [telecom]
Full Disclosure: I have a legacy tMobile prepaid account and it's working for me: nets out to about $.10 per minute.... I buy $100 worth of minutes every so often, and they roll over...
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[telecom] Apple, Let Us Tune into Those FM Radio Channels
As the article notes, phones' FM chips are commonly enabled in other countries (it cites a figure of 80 percent in Mexico, for instance). Apple doesn't want to manufacture multiple variant iPhone...
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Subprime auto lender facing FTC inquiry over GPS-tracking kill switches [telecom]
The US Federal Trade Commission is investigating an auto lender that often requires subprime borrowers to have so-called GPS starter-interrupter devices enabled on purchased vehicles. The so-called...
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Tribunal says Bell Canada discriminated against bedridden woman by making her go to store for phone [telecom]
from the Toronto Star: By Michelle McQuigge Tribunal says Bell Canada discriminated against bedridden woman by making her go to store for phone The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ordered Bell to pay...
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The global network has become dangerously unstable [telecom]
By Niall Ferguson The world today is like a giant network on the verge of a cataclysmic outage. The president of the United States tweets that his own intelligence agencies are illegally leaking...
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