The US National Security Agency (NSA) is attempting to beef up its security by letting go of 90 per cent of its system administrators, automating their roles instead. The NSA has faced increased scrutiny after former contractor Edward ...
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Verizon, a US- based broadband and telecommunications company, has received the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for a cloud-based, remote patient-monitoring medical device called Converged Health Management. ...
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O2's chief operating officer, Derek McManus, has claimed that the company's 4G network will be better than EE's, even though it will not work with the Apple iPhone 5. In an interview with Computing, McManus said that the £550m the ...
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Researchers showed a Black Hat audience how femotcell technology, used by phone companies to boost cell phone coverage, can be hacked to intercept cell phone calls, text messages and other data. Tom Ritter and Doug DePerry , researchers ...
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Isis will roll out its mobile wallet application nationwide later this year following successful pilots that launched last fall in Austin, Texas, and Salt Lake City, Utah. Isis, which competes with Google Wallet and other mobile wallet ...
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Google's Motorola Mobility unit unveiled the highly anticipated Moto X smartphone on Thursday at an event themed around innovation, but many of the handset's highlighted features were similar to those on the recently announced Droid ...
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Motorola Mobility announced the 4.7-in. Moto X smartphone on Thursday after weeks of build-up that touted the device as the first made from scratch under Google ownership. Still, analysts said that build-up didn't exactly crowd out this ...
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Two U.S. senators have introduced legislation that would permanently extend a current moratorium on Internet access taxes in the country. The Internet Tax Freedom Forever Act, introduced Thursday, would also extend the U.S. ban on other ...
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DECK is the first and only wireless speaker featuring 360-degree Full Sound, 300-Foot Wireless Range and Heist Mode?, which allows up to five friends to simultaneously pair to DECK and take turns controlling the music. Now everyone can be ...
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AT&T's Next smartphone and tablet upgrade and no-contract plan, announced Tuesday, competes with a similar plan called Jump! from T-Mobile and another expected soon from Verizon Wireless. Verizon is reportedly working on a no-contract ...
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Several smartphone launches are imminent, including next Tuesday's Verizon Wireless event in New York City to unveil what the carrier's calling "the next generation of one of their most popular family of devices." Other smartphones ...
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IDG News Service - The two biggest mobile operators in the U.S. are fiercely competitive and closely matched in size. So will AT&T's proposed multibillion-dollar acquisition of Leap Wireless change the balance? Market figures and ...
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BlackBerry has slashed the price of its flagship smartphone, the Z10, in the US after disappointing sales. Consumers can sign up to a two-year contract with either AT&T or Verizon and get the Z10 for $99, or only $49 on Amazon or Best Buy ...
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Verizon Wireless became the first U.S. carrier to join the Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group, but it is not clear whether it will eventually promote phones running the open-source Ubuntu OS on its network. Canonical, the company behind the ...
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US telecommunications giant AT&T has agreed to acquire Leap Wireless for $15 per share in cash, valuing the prepaid mobile operator at about $1.2bn (£800m). The move comes amid continued consolidation and restructuring in the ...
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