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FCC: US Poised To Win 5G Race
FCC: US Poised To Win 5G Race
February 24, 2019  |  data enablers

With 5G wireless coming, the U.S. is in a good position to dominate the market, said Federal Communications Commission Commissioner Brendan Carr. According to a...

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FCC Looks Into Reports Of Illegal Mobile Phone Tracking
FCC Looks Into Reports Of Illegal Mobile Phone Tracking
May 21, 2018  |  Security & Fraud

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced late last week that it is investigating reports that websites may have enabled the location of mobile phone customers...

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FCC Finds Bitcoin Miner Interfered With T-Mobile Broadband In NY
FCC Finds Bitcoin Miner Interfered With T-Mobile Broadband In NY
February 16, 2018  |  Bitcoin

An investigation by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has found evidence that a bitcoin mining operation based in the Brooklyn borough of New York City,...

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Weirdness Is Currency In The Attention Economy
Weirdness Is Currency In The Attention Economy
January 26, 2018  |  Retail

Playing with one’s food is all part of the Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) value proposition. There was the Watt A Box that let customers charge...

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Google, Facebook Take FCC To Court Over Net Neutrality
Google, Facebook Take FCC To Court Over Net Neutrality
January 08, 2018  |  Legal

Internet Association (IA), a lobbying group that represents the likes of Amazon, Facebook, Google and Netflix, is joining a lawsuit against the Federal Communication Commission’s...

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Giving Voice Recognition A Security Boost
Giving Voice Recognition A Security Boost
October 25, 2017  |  Security & Fraud

Biometric authentication technology like voice recognition has become a security staple, but with fraudsters designing schemes to beat them, biometrics too may benefit from backup....

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In A Ransom DDoS Attack, It Doesn’t Pay To Pay
In A Ransom DDoS Attack, It Doesn’t Pay To Pay
August 04, 2017  |  Security & Fraud

Cyberattacks have become so common that criminals don’t even have to launch one in order to get victims to pay up; all they have to...

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9 ISPs Unable To Provide Broadband Access To Poor, Per FCC
9 ISPs Unable To Provide Broadband Access To Poor, Per FCC
February 06, 2017  |  Regulation

In the latest salvos over broadband access, the Federal Communications Commission, newly headed by Ajit Pai, has blocked nine ISPs from joining the federal government’s...

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Amazon Gears Up To Test Wireless Communications System
Amazon Gears Up To Test Wireless Communications System
January 17, 2017  |  Amazon

Amazon is reportedly gearing up to test a wireless communications system at its headquarters in Seattle and in rural Washington. According to a report by...

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