AT&T, Google and Starbucks today announced that they have joined the Power Matters Alliance (PMA). Founded by Powermat Technologies and Procter & Gamble, the PMA’s Honorary Chairman is Google’s Vint Cerf – one of the ...
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Daifuku Webb Holding Company and its subsidiary Jervis B. Webb Company are helping Automatic Guided Vehicle (AGV) customers meet the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) public safety notice regarding mobile radio use. In 2011, the FCC ...
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The U.S. Federal Communications Commission may seek to make carriers reveal how well their networks withstood major natural disasters so that consumers can compare rival providers. That will be one topic on the agenda at a series of ...
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Cellular coverage for some carriers approached normal levels in the northeastern U.S. a week after Hurricane Sandy made landfall, but some areas remained cut off from mobile service because of ongoing power and telecommunications outages. ...
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IDG News Service - Consumers in the areas hardest hit by Hurricane Sandy may not get wired phone, Internet and video service back for as long as two weeks, Verizon Communications warned on Friday, while the FCC reported continued slow ...
Two days after Hurricane Sandy hit northeast U.S.coastal areas,power and communications outages are continuing to be a concern,especially in lower Manhattan. Verizon posted a dramatic photo online early Wednesday showing the lobby of ...
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Being the best can be a matter of personal opinion,Person A might like the BioBolt better than the Shepard DL210.While Person B might be the exact opposite.So how do you decide What is the best biometric deadbolt lockaLetas do a ...
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Service providers taking steps to solve expected mobile congestion problems at the Democratic National Convention this week are addressing issues that are likely to grow in many areas over the next few years. Time Warner Cable said Monday ...
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IDG News Service - AT&T Wireless has partially disabled service at 16 cellphone towers in Oakland after the California city said they were interfering with its emergency communications system. Police and firefighters had complained of ...
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A U.S.Department of Justice investigation has concluded that a multifaceted$3.9 billion agreement between Verizon Wireless and four of the largest cable TV network operators in the country could substantially harm competition and lead to ...
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IDG News Service - Verizon Wireless has agreed to pay US$1.25 million to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to resolve a complaint that it blocked third-party tethering applications on Android phones, the FCC said Tuesday. ...
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Google disclosed Friday in an email to the U.K. Information Commissioner's Office that it had not yet deleted all user data collected by its Street View vehicles, as it had agreed to more than 18 months ago. The Street View vehicles ...
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Broadband providers have "editorial discretion" to give priority to their own Web content, and the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules limiting that discretion is a violation of providers' free speech rights, two ...
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