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Vodavi DHS-E TELECOM [telecom]
Hello all, Anyone in here have any familiarity with the Vodavi DHS-E phone system? I am having an issue that I can't seem to resolve. The system originally had a Dispatch Voice Mail unit installed...
 
[telecom] Everyday risks: when statistics can't predict the future
Everyday risks: when statistics can't predict the future Statistics, it seems, can reveal our chances of being affected by anything from crime to serious illness. But number-crunching itself is a...
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[telecom] Web tool assesses crime risk in an instant
Web tool assesses crime risk in an instant By Mark Sullivan, CORRESPONDENT Sunday, June 9, 2013 WORCESTER - With the click of a mouse, there appears on the computer screen what looks like a weather...
 
[telecom] Remember All Those Passwords? No Need
Remember All Those Passwords? No Need By DAVID POGUE June 5, 2013 "If you want to avoid having your identity stolen, use long passwords that contain digits, punctuation and no recognizable words. Make...
 
[telecom] Price-gouging cable companies are our latter-day robber barons
Price-gouging cable companies are our latter-day robber barons Monopolistic cable providers make internet access an unaffordable luxury for tens of millions of Americans Heidi Moore 4 June 2013 Last...
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[telecom] Credibility Crunch for Tech Companies Over Prism
Credibility Crunch for Tech Companies Over Prism By AMIR EFRATI, SHIRA OVIDE and EVELYN M. RUSLI June 8, 2013 With Silicon Valley's credibility in protecting consumer privacy on the line, many of the...
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[telecom] White House Plays Down Data Program
White House Plays Down Data Program By JONATHAN WEISMAN and DAVID E. SANGER June 8, 2013 WASHINGTON - The Obama administration tried Saturday to marshal new evidence in defense of its collection of...
 
[telecom] How the U.S. Uses Technology to Mine More Data More Quickly
How the U.S. Uses Technology to Mine More Data More Quickly By JAMES RISEN and ERIC LICHTBLAU June 8, 2013 WASHINGTON - When American analysts hunting terrorists sought new ways to comb through the...
 
[telecom] Boundless Informant: the NSA's secret tool to track global surveillance data
Boundless Informant: the NSA's secret tool to track global surveillance data Revealed: The NSA's powerful tool for cataloguing global surveillance data - including figures on US collection Glenn...
 
[telecom] NSA's Prism surveillance program: how it works and what it can do
NSA's Prism surveillance program: how it works and what it can do Slide from secret PowerPoint presentation describes how program collects data 'directly from the servers' of tech firms James Ball...
 
[telecom] Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind revelations of NSA surveillance
Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind revelations of NSA surveillance The 29-year-old source behind the biggest intelligence leak in the NSA's history explains his motives, his uncertain future and...
 
Houston gets new area code to keep from running out of phone numbers [telecom]
By Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle | May 9, 2013 | Updated: May 10, 2013 Houston is adding an additional area code, with 346 overlaying existing area codes 713, 281 and 832 in Harris, Fort Bend,...
 
Penna area code 570 to get overlay 272 [telecom]
Verizon-PA has reported that 570 (Williamsport-Scranton) will get an overlay, 272, and everyone will have to dial 10 digits. From their website: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Area Code Updates...
 
Industry debates FCC auction rules for AT&T and Verizon [telecom]
Industry debates FCC auction rules for AT&T and Verizon by Marguerite Reardon June 4, 2013 6:50 PM PDT Debate heats up among wireless industry representatives and experts during a Senate subcommittee...
 
[telecom] Bugging telephones in 1955
Top Secret technology of 1955, apparently made obsolete by the introduction of the 500 set. Declassified in 2010. http://cryptome.org/2013/05/ultra-sonic-listening.pdf