Phone companies will have greater authority to block questionable calls from reaching customers as regulators adopted new rules to combat automated messages known as robocalls.
Telecom
Nov 16, 2017
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The Texas church massacre is providing a familiar frustration for law enforcement: FBI agents are unable to unlock the gunman's encrypted cellphone to learn what evidence it might hold.
Security
Nov 8, 2017
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3
For Michael Rizzo, answering the phone is too often a waste of time.
Telecom
Aug 2, 2017
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5
There are 95 million American households with fixed - as in, not wireless - internet access, but few of us really understand why we pay what we pay, especially when we hear about a neighbor or relative with a cheaper rate ...
Telecom
Aug 2, 2017
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Sprint said Tuesday that it should be able to "strike a deal" in the "near future," driving up shares of the fourth-largest U.S. wireless carrier.
Business
Aug 1, 2017
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A telecom company in the Netherlands has teamed up with the country's traffic safety authority to develop a bicycle lock that also blocks its mobile network, in a move aimed at protecting young riders who regularly pedal ...
Consumer & Gadgets
Jun 21, 2017
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Donald Trump wants to build another wall. Not a physical wall to keep out illegal immigrants, like his proposed Mexican border project, but a virtual wall around the internet. And just as with Mexico, he wants the people ...
Internet
Feb 9, 2017
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An international team has, for the first time, developed a way of combining anonymised data from mobile phones and satellite imagery data to create high resolution maps to measure poverty.
Social Sciences
Feb 7, 2017
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374
Your TV provider may soon become your phone company. Which seems only fair, because your phone company also wants to be your TV provider.
Telecom
Jan 26, 2017
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4
Under a President Donald Trump, cable and phone companies could gain new power to influence what you do and what you watch online—not to mention how much privacy you have while you're at it.
Internet
Dec 2, 2016
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