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FTC settles with Lenovo over a built-in snooping software, $3.5 million fine [telecom]
FTC settles with Lenovo over a built-in snooping software, $3.5 million fine SAN FRANCISCO - Lenovo, the world's second largest computer manufacturer, has settled with the Federal Trade Commission...
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Verizon Wants to Build an Advertising Juggernaut. It Needs Your Data First [telecom]
Verizon Wants to Build an Advertising Juggernaut. It Needs Your Data First A new Verizon Communications Inc. rewards program, "Verizon Up", provides credits that wireless subscribers can use for...
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(OPINION) Shaheen: The Russian Company That Is a Danger to Our Security [telecom]
Shaheen: The Russian Company That Is a Danger to Our Security By Jeanne Shaheen Kaspersky Lab, the cybersecurity company, is close to Putin's government. So why is the U.S. government using its...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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