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Picturephone at the 1964 NY World's Fair [telecom]
"When they showed off their cutting-edge invention to awed audiences at the World's Fair in 1964, the creators of the Picturephone had the future both completely wrong and completely right. Designers...
 
Aereo Update: Alito Back On The Case [telecom]
By FHH Law, CommLawBlog, April 16, 2014 In case you ever wondered whether there's such a thing as "unrecusal" - and, frankly, we hadn't - here's the answer: yes. The Supreme Court has announced that...
 
Aereo will have tough time proving its case, legal experts say [telecom]
By Jim Barthold, FierceCable, April 16, 2014 Aereo is going to have a hard time proving its right to exist when takes its case to the Supreme Court April 22, according to legal experts asked to...
 
Broadcasting is about to change, regardless of Aereo lawsuit's outcome [telecom]
By Samantha Bookman, FierceOnlineVideo, April 15, 2014 Next Tuesday, the Supreme Court takes up the issue of whether Aereo is violating copyright law by providing over-the-top streaming of broadcast...
 
[telecom] All sent and received e-mails in Gmail will be analyzed, says Google
All sent and received e-mails in Gmail will be analyzed, says Google The new text might be a reaction to the e-mail scanning lawsuit. by Casey Johnston Apr 15 2014 Google added a paragraph to its...
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[telecom] Yahoo Rolls the Dice on TV
Yahoo Rolls the Dice on TV David Carr APRIL 13, 2014 Yahoo, a company that seems like a permanent adolescent in search of an identity, is about to try a new persona: high-quality television...
 
TV Channel-Sharing Study: A Report on the Report [telecom]
By Steve Lovelady, CommLawBlog, April 13, 2014 | Does the report on the first formal tests of a TV channel-sharing | arrangement really say what FCC Chair Tom Wheeler says it says? YOU | make the...
 
[telecom] Flight 370 Search Brings Satellite Company an Unaccustomed Bit of Fame
Flight 370 Search Brings Satellite Company an Unaccustomed Bit of Fame By NICOLA CLAR KAPRIL 9, 2014 LONDON - On an enormous electronic map of the globe in the modernist headquarters of a satellite...
 
Nurses Say Pagers Must Go; Hospitals Drag Feet [telecom]
Nurses and other healthcare workers who communicate vital patient information say they need an alternative to outdated pagers and insecure smartphones. by Alison Diana At most hospitals, nurses are...
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Editorial calls for ban on all phoning when driving in NJ [telecom]
The editorial board of the Newark Star Ledger (NJ) is calling for "stronger legislation that bans all cell phone use while driving -- even hands-free -- and backs it up with penalties as strict as...
 
[telecom] Critical crypto bug in OpenSSL opens two-thirds of the Web to eavesdropping
Critical crypto bug in OpenSSL opens two-thirds of the Web to eavesdropping Exploits allow attackers to obtain private keys used to decrypt sensitive data. by Dan Goodin Apr 7 2014 Researchers have...
 
[telecom] 5-year-old Ocean Beach boy exposes Microsoft Xbox vulnerability
5-year-old Ocean Beach boy exposes Microsoft Xbox vulnerability Michael Chen Apr 7, 2014 OCEAN BEACH - A young Ocean Beach boy is in the spotlight after he discovered a back door in to one of the most...
 
[telecom] Professors: Aereo Is Healthy Response to Dysfunctional System
Professors: Aereo Is Healthy Response to Dysfunctional System Argue broadcasters have obligation to prioritize wide dissemination above copyright fees 4/03/2014 By: John Eggerton Broadcasting & Cable...
 
[telecom] Heartbleed: Serious OpenSSL zero day vulnerability revealed
Heartbleed: Serious OpenSSL zero day vulnerability revealed Summary: A new OpenSSL vulnerability has shown up and some companies are annoyed that the bug was revealed before patches could be delivered...
 
Fred Goldstein is the new moderator [telecom]
To the readers, As you all know, I'm going to take a hiatus from being Moderator of The Telecom Digest, and I asked for volunteers to pinch-hit. If you were one of those who volunteered, please accept...
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