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[telecom] Wi-Fi, Once a Nicety, Is Now a Need for Some Air Passengers
Wi-Fi, Once a Nicety, Is Now a Need for Some Air Passengers By HARRIET EDLESON October 1, 2012 Tony Drockton, who owns a luxury handbag company in Southern California, used to take the overnight...
 
Bogus Caller-ID [telecom]
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[telecom] Hackers Breached Adobe Server in Order to Sign Their Malware
Hackers Breached Adobe Server in Order to Sign Their Malware BY KIM ZETTER 09.27.12 The ongoing security saga involving digital certificates got a new and disturbing wrinkle on Thursday when software...
 
[telecom] Verizon iPhone 5 Unlocked Thanks to FCC?
VERIZON IPHONE 5 UNLOCKED THANKS TO FCC? James Duncan Davidson September 24, 2012 Last Friday, Jeff Benjamin broke the news on iDownloadBlog that his Verizon iPhone 5 was unlocked. And not just...
 
[telecom] New Limits Considered in Airwaves
New Limits Considered in Airwaves By EDWARD WYATT September 25, 2012 WASHINGTON - From East Hampton to Malibu, the only limit on how much beachfront property one can own is usually however much one...
 
[telecom[ using a rental computer? There's a spy-app with that... [telecom]
[FTC press release] FTC Halts Computer Spying Secretly Installed Software on Rented Computers Collected Information, Took Pictures of Consumers in Their Homes, Tracked Consumers' Locations Seven...
 
Bogus Called ID [telecom]
Like a lot of folks, I got a robo call asking to donate as little of $3 to Romney's campaign. The call came from 202-730-9976. Of course, it is a bogus number. I am curious if there are any...
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[telecom] Data breach at IEEE.org: 100k plaintext passwords
Data breach at 100k plaintext passwords. Using the data to gain insights into the engineering and scientific community IEEE suffered a data breach which I discovered on September 18. ...
 
[telecom] Apple Maps: Damned If You Do, Googled If You Don't
Apple Maps: Damned If You Do, Googled If You Don't Monday Note September 23, 2012 Edited by Jean-Louis Gassée While still a teenager, my youngest daughter was determined to take on the role of used...
 
[telecom] Apple's iPhone commandeered at hacker contest days before new release
Apple's iPhone commandeered at hacker contest days before new release A Galaxy S3 running latest available Android operating system is also toppled. by Dan Goodin Sept 19 2012 Ars Technica Just days...
 
[telecom] What's AT&T planning? Hidden specs unearthed in the GSM iPhone 5
Sep 13, 2012 What's AT&T planning? Hidden specs unearthed in the GSM iPhone 5 BY Kevin Fitchard FCC documentation reveals there are two more LTE bands hidden within AT&T's version of the new iPhone 5:...
 
[telecom] AT&T Chief Speaks Out on Texting at the Wheel
AT&T Chief Speaks Out on Texting at the Wheel By MATT RICHTEL September 19, 2012 SAN FRANCISCO - Randall L. Stephenson, the chairman and chief executive of AT&T, spoke Wednesday morning at a...
 
[telecom] Genachowski: The Need For Speed
The Need For Speed JULIUS GENACHOWSKI Sunday, September 16 TechCrunch Editor's Note: This guest post was written by Julius Genachowski, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. Prior to his...
 
[telecom] AT&T faces formal FCC complaint for blocking cellular FaceTime use
AT&T faces formal FCC complaint for blocking cellular FaceTime use Policy is allegedly "harming its users and holding back mobile innovation." by Timothy B. Lee Ars Technica Sept 18 2012 A coalition...
 
[telecom] Millions of Virgin Mobile accounts at risk of password attacks
Millions of Virgin Mobile accounts at risk of password attacks A customer who cracked his password shows just how easy account takeovers are. by Dan Goodin Ars Technica Sept 18 2012