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Virginia judge: Police can demand a suspect unlock a phone with a fingerprint

Virginia judge: Police can demand a suspect unlock a phone with a fingerprint But passcodes need not be divulged as per...

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Google ordered to pay a woman $2,250 for Street View image showing cleavage

Google ordered to pay a woman $2,250 for Street View image showing cleavage Although her face was blurred out, image ha...

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iOS 8.1.1 said to address iPhone 4S and iPad 2 performance problems

iOS 8.1.1 said to address iPhone 4S and iPad 2 performance problems When released, the update could fix one of iOS 8's...

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AT&T's outdated unlock policies cost it a loyal customer: me [Updated]

AT&T's outdated unlock policies cost it a loyal customer: me [Updated] Refuse to unlock my device for international tra...

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Cell carrier was weakest link in hack of Google, Instagram accounts

Cell carrier was weakest link in hack of Google, Instagram accounts Carrier was social-engineered by hacker to steal ma...

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Critics chafe as Macs send sensitive docs to iCloud without warning

Critics chafe as Macs send sensitive docs to iCloud without warning PSA: Turn off autosave of in-progress documents con...

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CenturyLink's Northland Customers Experiencing Outages [telecom]

CenturyLink is reporting Internet and phone outages for customers in the Northland Monday. Representatives said they're...

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Verizon, AT&T say their voice-over LTE services will work together [telecom]

VoLTE is considered the next generation of voice call technology, and the alliance between the two greatly expands its...

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History - the No. 6 dry cell in 1955 [telecom]

This type of battery was once very popular in communication devices. In local battery (magneto) service, a pair of them...

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Emergency alert hijacks TVs of AT&T customers [telecom]

ATLANTA, Ga. -- AT&T U-verse customers in several states woke up Friday morning to find a federal emergency alert on TV...

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Somebody's Already Using Verizon's ID to Track Users [telecom]

Twitter is using a newly discovered hidden code that the telecom carriers are adding to every page you visit - and it's...

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AT&T, Verizon Using 'Perma-Cookies' to Track Customer Web Activity [telecom]

Both Verizon and AT&T appear to be engaging in some unsavory customer tracking techniques, using unique identifying num...

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Consumers wasted at least $300 million paying for AT&T's "unlimited" data [telecom]

by Brian Fung By now, you've probably heard that the Federal Trade Commission is suing AT&T for how it treats its unlim...

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Cut to fiber-optic cable disrupts area landline service [telecom]

By Chris Olson Landline phone users in Stutsman and Barnes counties [in North Dakota] had limited phone service for abo...

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CenturyLink Phone Book Inadequate [telecom]

Last weekend, I happily retrieved my new CenturyLink phonebook from the front porch where it had been left, thinking to...

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