sábado, 6 de febrero de 2021

Newsvine - telecom

Source: Free Press

Back to Hillary and Barack, where they stand on broadband, and how Net Neutrality supporters are throwing their support to the silver-tongued Illinoisan.

Source: AlterNet.org

I've only gotten to the fourth paragraph and can tell that this is going to be a good article......it's getting better.....OMG!

Source: AOL

WASHINGTON (Dec. 18) - With Americans cutting the cord to their land lines, 2007 is likely to be the first calendar year in which U.S.

Source: The New York Times

In one of the last efforts to stop the United States to become a dictatorship, an effort that would have preserved the right to punish telecommunications companies for their possible complicity in illegal wiretapping on ordinary Americans by the Bush Administration was defeated i …

Source: Wired News

The Senate voted by a margin of 76 to 10 to limit debate on a new wiretapping bill Monday, all but ensuring that the Senate will approve amnesty for telecoms that helped the government spy on Americans without court orders and greatly expand the government's ability to spy using  …

Source: The New York Times

But lawyers for the plaintiffs say that if the suit were allowed to proceed, internal AT&T; documents would verify the engineer's account.

Source: Free Press

Even as the wireless industry chants a new gospel about opening mobile-phone networks to outside devices and applications, some of the biggest U.S.

Source: Reuters

If you are a Catholic looking for a saint in heaven to protect you, you no longer have to carry a small "holy card".

Source: PC World

Their names keep coming up over and over again in courtrooms and corridors of power across the country--those groups whose interests always seem to run counter to those of technology companies and consumers.

Source: The Globe and Mai

Source: Canada.com

It seems a given that if the U.S. economy slows down, Asia will follow because of its dependence on exports to American consumers. But it may not be so.

Source: Save the Internet

In an article earlier this week, the paper's media beat reporter David Lieberman writes that the end of the Internet is nigh. It will start crashing down around us by the year 2010, he adds, citing a recent "study" by Nemertes Research.

Source: ABC News

Deutsche Telekom AG's mobile unit said Wednesday it would offer Apple's iPhone without a contract to comply with a court injunction, but consumers that opt out of a two-year contract will pay more than twice as much for it.

Source: Wall Street Journal

The company is gearing up to make a serious run at buying wireless spectrum, a chunk of the airwaves that can be used to provide mobile phone and Internet services, in a Federal Communications Commission auction in January.

Source: tpmelectioncentral.com

This is pretty big.

Source: Red Herring

One day after Google's splashy entry into the mobile market, the telecom industry is still divided over whether Google can deliver on its stated goal to transform wireless.

Source: inteldaily.com

The AT&T; technician who stumbled across a secret room in the company's San Francisco facility which was sending copies of all telephone and Internet communications to the NSA, is on Capitol Hill this week, urging Congress not to give immunity to the telecommunications companies f …

Source: eweek.com

Verizon—without a warrant or subpoena—turned over customer records of telephone calls and Internet activities to federal officials more than 700 times since 2005, according to the nation's second largest telecom carrier.

Source: Free Press

In many ways, the Comcast Must Die campaign and blog launched online earlier this month by Advertising Age columnist Bob Garfield gives exceptional prominence to the grassroots frustration with cable in general, and Comcast in particular.

Source: SPIEGEL ONLINE

The nine-month-old telecom equipment joint venture is losing money. Scandal-plagued Siemens may bail out of its half.

Source: bsalert.com

We didn't know it, but for the past week, anyone using Comcast has been unable to receive any Email with "www.afterdowningstreet.org" in the body of the Email. That has included every Email from me, since that was in my signature at the bottom of every Email I sent.

Source: Life, The Universe...

Michigan state government officials and executives from the transportation, manufacturing, automotive and telecommunications sectors were on hand for the dedication of the Connected Vehicle Proving Center (CVPC) in Ann Arbor.

Source: Business Week

Investors battered the company's stock for years. But now they're beginning to show support for CEO Seidenberg. Two years ago, Verizon (VZ) CEO Ivan Seidenberg's aggressive push into the pay TV market was widely dismissed as an expensive corporate boondoggle.

Source: Life, The Universe ...

Mobile phones have not been found to be associated with any biological or adverse health effects, according to the UK's largest investigation into the possible health risks from mobile telephone technology.

Source: The Washington Post

For most of the industrial age, homes primarily communicated to the outside world through a basic copper phone wire.