iPhone 5: Simultaneous Voice and Data
Brian X. Chen (via Eric Blair): That means when AT&T customers place a phone call and use data on the iPhone 5, both functions will roll back to AT&T’s older network, which can handle them...
View ArticleVerizon iPhone 5 Unlocked Thanks to FCC?
James Duncan Davidson: In a nutshell, for devices that operate in the 700 MHz C block—which Verizon paid $9.4 billion dollars in 2008 for a license to use for their new LTE network—the following...
View ArticleVerizon Using Net Neutrality Victory to Wage War Against Netflix
David Raphael (via Dave Winer): I’ve since tested this almost every day for the last couple of weeks. During the day – the bandwidth is normal to AWS. However, after 4pm or so – things get slow. In my...
View ArticleVerizon Made an Enemy Tonight
Colin Nederkoorn (via Landon Fuller): This Netflix video streams at 375 kbps (or 0.375 mbps – 0.5% of the speed I pay for) at the fastest. I was shocked. Then I decided to try connecting to a VPN...
View ArticleVerizon-AOL
Ben Thompson: Verizon, meanwhile, knows a lot about its users: By virtue of being a paid service, Verizon knows users’ names, addresses, and even social security numbers (gotta run those credit...
View ArticleTwitter Account Hacked via SIM Reset
Kate Conger (via John Gruber, Slashdot): Even though several huge data breaches have recently exposed hundreds of millions of social media login credentials online, users aren’t re-setting their...
View ArticleVerizon Acquires Yahoo
Marissa Mayer: This sale is not only an important step in our plan to unlock shareholder value for Yahoo, it is also a great opportunity for Yahoo to build further distribution and accelerate our work...
View ArticleYahoo Says Hackers Stole Data on 500 Million Users in 2014
Bob Lord (via Hacker News): A recent investigation by Yahoo has confirmed that a copy of certain user account information was stolen from the company’s network in late 2014 by what it believes is a...
View ArticleVerizon to Drop E-mail Service
Verizon: We have decided to close down our email business. We will let you know when it’s time to choose how to handle your email account going forward via email. In addition, you’ll see a message from...
View ArticleUS Cell Carriers Are Selling Access to Real-time Phone Location Data
Zack Whittaker (via Hacker News): Four of the largest cell giants in the US are selling your real-time location data to a company that you’ve probably never heard about before.In case you missed it, a...
View ArticlePrivacy News
Carole Cadwalladr and Emma Graham-Harrison: Facebook used its apps to gather information about users and their friends, including some who had not signed up to the social network, reading their text...
View ArticleAT&T More Than Doubles Administrative Fee
Juli Clover: The fee hike was first noticed by BTIG Research analyst Walter Piecyk (via CNBC), who pointed out that AT&T has increased its monthly fees by approximately $1.23 in 2018 with two price...
View ArticleCell Carriers Sold Location Data to Bounty Hunters
Jason Koebler (tweet): Around 250 bounty hunters and related businesses had access to AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint customer location data, according to documents obtained by Motherboard. The...
View ArticleVerizon Sells Tumblr to Automattic
Julia Alexander (Hacker News): Verizon has agreed to sell Tumblr to WordPress owner Automattic Inc. for an undisclosed amount, TheWall Street Journal reports. Verizon, which first acquired Tumblr in...
View ArticleVerizon Sells Yahoo and AOL
Edmund Lee and Lauren Hirsch (via Hacker News): Yahoo and AOL, kings of the early internet, saw their fortunes decline as Silicon Valley raced ahead to create new digital platforms. Google replaced...
View ArticleFour Years Without Net Neutrality
Nathan Leamer: Four years ago today the FCC rightly repealed #netneutrality regulations. And guess what? The Internet works fine. But never forget the hyperbolic predictions. Thread below Karl Bode...
View ArticleiPhone SE 2022
Apple (Hacker News): The new iPhone SE features impressive upgrades including the performance of A15 Bionic, which powers advanced camera capabilities and makes nearly every experience better, from...
View ArticleeSIM and iPhone 14
Glenn Fleishman: Apple has gone all in on the eSIM (embedded SIM), a programmable internal version of the SIM (subscriber identity module) card used to ID your phone to cellular networks. With the U.S....
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