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Something new: FCC broadband speed testing [Telecom]

As found on Slashdot today: " The Federal Communications Commission is asking the nation's " broadband and smartphone u...

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thad

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The power of yellow pages advertising [telecom]

Around the corner from where I live is an apartment building. In one of the windows in one of the units is an air condi...

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ahk

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New Zealand just implemented government-censored filtered Internet [Telecom]

Govt internet filter going live is sad day for NZ Thursday, 11 March 2010 " The Department of Internal Affairs has admi...

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thad

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Smartphones will make mobile security a challenge [Telecom]

The increasing use of smart phones in the workplace opens new vulnerabilities as the smart phones become hacked and run...

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thad

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TiVo Prevails in Patent Rights Case Against Dish

TiVo Prevails in Patent Rights Case Against Dish By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The New York Times March 4, 2010 Filed at 3:03...

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monty

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Line length and other matters of style [NFP]

I don't generally allow "Meta" discussion, i.e., posts about the Digest itself, but I'm breaking my own rule in this ca...

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bill

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Cell phone in the toilet, what to do? [Telecom]

It's not often there's something funny (as in "Hah hah!") in the "COMPUTING Q&A" column of the San Francisco Chronicle,...

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thad

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Domestic Earthquake Survivability [telecom]

News reports following the Chilean earthquake showed other potential zones and these were around the Pacific coast. It...

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hancock4

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Voice mail versus cassette answering machine (was: Clueless Woman Calls Tech Show When Her Stolen Wi-Fi Disappears) [telecom]

>To put a telecom angle back on this, I now understand why some people >continue to use a traditional land-line phone w...

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ahk

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Slammed and crammed [telecom]

I haven't had phone service from the telephone company in a number of years. I had new service installed February 2. Go...

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ahk

11 16yrs ahk

Apple Sues HTC for Patent Infringement

Apple Sues HTC for Patent Infringement CUPERTINO, California-March 2, 2010-Apple today filed a lawsuit against HTC for...

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monty

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iPad Available in US on April 3 [telecom]

iPad Available in US on April 3 Pre-Order on March 12 CUPERTINO, California-March 5, 2010-Apple today announced that it...

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monty

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Loma Linda California Now Selling 911 Insurance [telecom]

The city of Loma Linda, California, is now offering insurance against its residents having to pay per-incident fees whe...

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bill

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[sbcepr] AT&T CEO Sees Metered Pricing In Future, No iPad Issue

This is forwarded from a list made up mostly of SWC (now AT&T) retirees. Wes Leatherock snipped-for-privacy@aol.com sni...

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wesrock

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It's that time again in North America [telecom]

Here in North America we will leave standard time and will adjust our time one hour ahead for daylight saving (no S) ti...

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joeofseattle

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