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Applications Spur Carriers to Relax Grip on Cellphones [Telecom]

Applications Spur Carriers to Relax Grip on Cellphones By LAURA M. HOLSON The New York Times August 4, 2008 In the firs...

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monty

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Travelers' Laptops May Be Detained At Border / No Suspicion Required Under DHS Policies [Telecom]

Travelers' Laptops May Be Detained At Border No Suspicion Required Under DHS Policies By Ellen Nakashima Washington Pos...

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monty

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Prescription Data Used To Assess Consumers / Records Aid Insurers but Prompt Privacy Concerns [Telecom]

Prescription Data Used To Assess Consumers Records Aid Insurers but Prompt Privacy Concerns By Ellen Nakashima Washingt...

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monty

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Technician Training Manuals [Telecom]

Does anyone know how I could obtain some technician training manuals from a large telco? When I worked at Comcast as a...

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cipher7836

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TTY public telephone repost [telecom]

Previously we discussed if TTY telephone service exists. We noted that it does and there are even pay phones with TTY k...

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hancock4

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NYT article on Internet trolls [Telecom]

The NYT Sunday Magazine has a long article on trolling on the Internet. See: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/...

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hancock4

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Calif judge: cell phone "termination fees" illegal [Telecom]

-Note that this is based on California law, and will, no doubt, be appealed. But it's a big step in some direction or a...

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dannyb

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Can Linksys/Sipura (SPA-3102) use different SIP providers for incoming and outgoing calls [Telecom]

I have a VoIP account that forwards all calls made to a DID number over to a SIP number. This works great with the SPA-...

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benn686

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[Telecom] New York Times tells us a bit too much about a sixteen year old kid

In the current Telecom Digest, we find an article from the New York Times, which contains this sentence: "Some children...

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rvh40

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Qwest shooting self in foot? [Telecom]

The details of the Qwest/Verizon cell deal seem to coming out to us consumers. As best I can tell, other than getting a...

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TMPLee

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Re: Slashdot - Call Someone Without Having To Talk To Them [TELECOM]

|http://mobile.slashdot.org/mobile/08/07/22/1558236.shtml| |This is rather interesting, but why do I suspect it's just...

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ddl

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Re: Point-to-point microwave links (was 1964 World's Fair) [Telecom]

> BTW, speaking of "peeking" over another building, can you > explain why the fresnel zone around a dish is so large? I...

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nmclain

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Apple's MobileMess

Apple's MobileMess By DAVID POGUE The New York Times July 24, 2008 Two weeks ago, Apple launched MobileMe, the successo...

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monty

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Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading?

Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading? By MOTOKO RICH The New York Times July 27, 2008 BEREA, Ohio - Books are no...

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monty

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There's Lots of Money in Those Old iPhones

July 18, 2008, 7:47 pm There's Lots of Money in Those Old iPhones By David F. Gallagher I was walking by the lengthy iP...

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monty

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