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ARRL questions risk of cell phone use while driving [telecom]
The American Radio Relay League, which represents many Ham Radio operators such as I, has sent a letter to its members which questions the accuracy of two studies that found increased risk of...
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Carrier IQ reactes badly to being caught with its hand in the cookie jar [telecom]
Carrier IQ reactes badly to being caught with its hand in the cookie jar. In the December 15th edition of Crypto-Gram, Bruce Schneier has this to say about Carrer IQ and the company's reaction to the...
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[telecom] What Cellphone Calls Say About Parent-Teenager Relations
What Cellphone Calls Say About Parent-Teenager Relations By RONI CARYN RABIN JULY 1, 2011 Brendan Smialowski for The New York Times Do cellphones help teenagers feel more independent, or are they an...
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[telecom] U.S. Safety Board Urges Cellphone Ban for Drivers
U.S. Safety Board Urges Cellphone Ban for Drivers By MATT RICHTEL December 13, 2011 A federal agency on Tuesday called for a ban on all cellphone use by drivers - the most far-reaching such...
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[telecom] The Facebook Resisters
The Facebook Resisters By JENNA WORTHAM December 13, 2011 Tyson Balcomb quit Facebook after a chance encounter on an elevator. He found himself standing next to a woman he had never met - yet through...
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[telecom] As Kindle Fire Faces Critics, Remedies Are Promised
As Kindle Fire Faces Critics, Remedies Are Promised By DAVID STREITFELD December 11, 2011 The Kindle Fire, Amazon's heavily promoted tablet, is less than a blazing success with many of its early...
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LightSquared calls leaked GPS test report a "distortion of truth" [telecom]
By Matthew Lasar LightSquared is furious over a news report suggesting that, in various trials, the satellite broadband company's proposed transmission system bumps into GPS devices around 75 percent...
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An experimental switching system using new electronic techniques [telecom]
I came across a fascinating paper by A. E. Noel, Jr. , in the Bell System Technical Journal: it gives an amazing insight into the coming of the "digital" age in telephone switching, and into many...
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BufferBloat: What's Wrong with the Internet? [telecom]
BufferBloat: What's Wrong with the Internet? "A discussion with Vint Cerf, Van Jacobson, Nick Weaver, and Jim Gettys" Here's my take on the BufferBLoat issue: I think this is a great discussion of how...
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The ghost of Nortel continues to haunt Canada's tech sector [telecom]
By BARRIE McKENNA December 04, 2011 Next month marks a grim anniversary in the annals of Canadian business. Nortel Networks, the former flagship of the country's high-tech industry, filed for...
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More bad news for LightSquared [telecom]
According to a story by David Murphy in PC Magazine: When it rains for LightSquared, it pours for LightSquared. The ambitious, proposed wholesaler of LTE service -- designed to ultimately give...
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Re: OSHA: Two Federal DOT Agencies Ban Hand-Held Phone [telecom]
How would they (or you) know that? It's not obvious to me that most calls involving vehicle drivers include the use of hand-held phones. After all, BlueTooth earpieces are cheap and ubiquitous these...
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History: Cell phone early days [telecom]
On 3/17/1979 and 4/17/1980 the New York Times reported some interesting tidbits about mobile telephone service and the transition to cellular systems. The cell phone patent was awarded to Richard...
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The 'hacktivists' of Telecomix lend a hand to the Arab Spring [telecom]
The 'hacktivists' of Telecomix lend a hand to the Arab Spring By Shyamantha Asokan, Published: December 6 On a rainy November morning in Northern Virginia, at a cafe where elderly women are meeting...
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Smartphone malware threats on the rise [telecom]
CBS News reported that "a report from the computer security company McAfee finds that threats to your smartphone are on the rise and will reach a record high by the end of this year. According to the...
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