CSO - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has taken the position it does not need a search warrant to gather email in criminal investigations, despite opposition from lawmakers and privacy advocates and a ruling by a federal appellate court. ...
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Google Fiber with gigabit speeds will be coming to homes in Austin, Texas, by mid-2014, Google announced today. And in what could become a fierce competition over connectivity, AT&T also announced today that it is prepared to build its ...
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Australians are falling further in love with faster internet, with more users downloading more data than ever before. Figures published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics show record downloads in the last three months of 2012, with ...
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Up until now, if you liked Panasonic's take on Internet content, you had to buy one of its online-ready TVs. But now there's another, less expensive option: the company's first standalone streaming media players. You can choose between ...
Browse the web, check email, watch videos and download apps on the nation's fastest 4G LTE network with the Kindle Fire HD 8.9" – coming to AT&T retail stores at an affordable price. Amazon's Kindle Fire HD 4G LTE 32GB tablet arrives ...
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A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack of unprecedented scale that targeted an international spam-fighting organization last week ended up causing problems for Internet users around the world, experts say. The DDoS attack started ...
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Internet connectivity to North Korea was restored Friday after a day-and-a-half-long outage that the country's official media blamed on international hacking. Connections to the Star, North Korea's sole Internet service provider, hit ...
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Internet connectivity in North Korea was restored on Friday following a 36-hour outage that the country’s official media blamed on international hacking. Connections to the Star, North Korea’s sole Internet service provider, ...
Broadband speeds across the United Kingdom are on the up, according to the industry's watchdog. Back in November 2008 the average speed of the country's broadband was a sluggish 3.6Mbit/s, now five years on this has rocketed to 12Mbit/s. ...
A Cisco-funded router startup has unveiled its first product, which the company says implements breakthrough silicon-to-photonics circuitry for scaling service provider networks and enabling them for software-defined networking (SDN). ...
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If you've ever wondered why Netflix movies look better at your friend's house than in your own living room, Netflix has launched a new website that compares Internet speeds from various broadband providers. To find out how well—or ...
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Opinions expressed on Twitter differ from public opinion measured by surveys on key political events and policy issues, reflecting that users of the Internet service are demographically very different from the public, according to a study ...
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IDG News Service - A court in the U.K. has ordered key Internet service providers in the country to block three torrent sites on a complaint from music labels including EMI Records and Sony Music. The High Court of Justice, Chancery ...
Last week the content-creating industry launched a new effort aimed at preventing copyright infringement: the Copyright Alert System—CAS, also called "six strikes." It's a warning system intended to curb illegal downloads of music, ...
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has taken the first step toward an expansion of the spectrum available for Wi-Fi, with the agency launching a rulemaking proceeding to open new parts of the 5GHz spectrum to unlicensed uses. The ...
Tags: Wi-Fi, 5GHz spectrum, FCC