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The Internet Watches with Bated Breath, FCC Votes on Net Neutrality Tomorrow
The ground-shaking vote within the Federal Communications Commission covering how the Federal government will choose to regulate how Internet providers and carriers will treat traffic on their networks happens tomorrow. As a result, a multitude of political parties, industry interests, and others wait with bated breath as their factors and lobbyists furiously send letters, make ...
AT&T to Purchase Qualcomm FLO TV Spectrum for $1.93B
With the shutdown of their FLO TV service, Qualcomm will make available the spectrum that the service once used and AT&T is on the prowl for extra room to spread their wings into for the development of 4G. October, Qualcomm told the media that they intended to suspend FLO TV, which delivered video to cell ...
Sophistication of Malware Targeting Android Increasing
A significant jump in malware attacks has been seen targeting Android since the past year. Along with the jump in the number of attacks, the sophistication of the viruses and worms has also been increasing. In order to avoid becoming a victim, people should make themselves aware of the current environment and move to protect ...
Tips For Keeping Your Smartphone Secure
Smartphones have become ubiquitous in our digital society. These powerful little devices take our computers out of our homes, stick them in our pockets, and clip them to our belts. As a result, the same hexes and banes of the PC universe will begin to follow us into our daily lives. Save yourself a lot ...
Waiting for a Kinect Sex Game? Well, Here You Go…
Well, this wasn’t long for the market. There’s a lot to go with the old mantra “sex sells” and it does fit extremely well into almost any media. The Xbox 360 Kinect simply supplies an amazing fit for erotic games and a controller that permits a person to actually mimic hot-and-heavy motions involved with making ...
Pundits Predicting Death of RIM Forget to Count Foreign Markets
Anton Wahlman is reporting on The Street that Research In Motion, the Canadian developer of the Blackberry smartphone, continually gets prodded in the pundit media as failing at market. However, as this doesn’t actually appear to be the case worldwide, he accuses reports of polling only the US market and then extrapolating that incorrectly as ...
We Need an Online Privacy Bill of Rights, Says Obama Administration
The Internet works as an extremely powerful social tool to connect multitudes of people together, provide services, collect data, and open up our world—but it also mimics a sort of public space in which our activities can be stored forever. With this in mind, everyone who can “see” what we are doing can readily identify ...
Bing Reveals Numerous Visual Innovations at San Francisco Event
Microsoft has been struggling to get their search engine’s popularity up in a market dominated by Google. Since its launch in 2009, Bing showed 11.8% of the search market by November, up slightly from 11.5% in October. During an event in San Francisco, Microsoft unveiled a series of tools and huge innovations added to their ...
HTC CEO Peter Chou Tells Us LTE Phones On Their Way in 2011
Looks like we’ll be seeing some HTC Long-Term Evolution phones available for all those networks rolling out (Verizon and MetroPCS), but perhaps not this year. CEO of HTC, Peter Chou, also added that the phones will incorporate Near-Field Communications technology, which Google Android has been working on deploying. Information on the entire speech is slight, ...
Court Rules that Government Requires Warrant to Peer Into Private E-mails
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, [and electronic mail?] against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated…” It sometimes takes legislation a long time to catch up with technology. Since its inception, e-mail has been treated differently than telephone calls and postal mail by law ...