Airplane passengers aren't the only ones fed up with restrictions on the use of portable electronic devices during takeoff and landing. Julius Genachowski, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, has written a letter urging the ...
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Google has admitted to the Information Commisioner's Office that it failed to delete all the Wi-Fi data collected by its Street View vehicles. Last month, the ICO demanded proof that the Wi-Fi data collected by the Google Street View ...
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Federal initiatives to make more spectrum available for mobile services are likely to take off running after President Barack Obama's re-election on Tuesday, a member of a presidential technology commission said. The government is trying ...
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Some wireless and wired communications services downed by Hurricane Sandy have been restored over the past 24 hours, but FCC officials said Wednesday afternoon that several serious outages remain in New York, New Jersey and some other hard ...
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Hurricane Sandy exposed a decided lack of contingency planning on Wall Street, according to a report by a research firm. With the Northeast still experiencing the effects of widespread storm damage, the business continuity plans of stock ...
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AT&T has agreed to pay $700,000 and refund certain customers said to have been overcharged on smartphone plans, after the Federal Communications Commission found that some customers were moved to more expensive monthly plans without their ...
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IDG News Service - Two names that have recently been out of the limelight recently turned up on Tuesday at the U.S. Federal Communications Commission: Bankrupt would-be mobile broadband carrier LightSquared and former FCC Chairman Kevin ...
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The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has voted to approve an agreement that will bring an end to a 15-year fight over interference concerns over mobile broadband service in the 2.3GHz band of spectrum. The FCC's vote Wednesday will ...
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Three advocacy groups plan to file a formal complaint against AT&T, alleging the carrier is violating the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules for blocking a video-conferencing application on Apple's iPhones and ...
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A new government study is warning that the Federal Communications Commission's standards for testing cell phones for exposure to radio-frequency energy may have fallen out of step with the latest scientific studies, calling on the agency to ...
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IDG News Service - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is advising smartphone users on how to protect their mobile devices and data from mobile security threats. The Commission released an online tool called the "Smartphone ...
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The Google Fiber broadband project underway in the Kansas City area is offering 5 Mbps Internet access for free and 1 Gbps access for $70 a month, among other major benefits. However, the project also will cost taxpayers of the sister ...
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AT&T plans to acquire NextWave Wireless, a holder of spectrum that could be used for mobile data services, for about $600 million. NextWave has licenses for spectrum in both the WCS (Wireless Communications Services) and the AWS (Advanced ...
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Microchip Technology has completed the $900m acquisition of Standard Microsystems Corporation (SMSC). "We believe SMSC's smart mixed-signal connectivity solutions aimed at embedded applications are an ideal complement to Microchip's ...
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After starting amid the smoldering ruins of AT&T and T-Mobile USA's failed merger,2012 ended as a big year for mobile carrier deals in the U.S.,and possibly a final changing of the guard for a long time. If all the reshuffling that ...
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