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Internet Speed Could Add Value to Your Home (video)

2015-07-27T00:00:00.000+02:00

Internet Speed Could Add Value to Your Home - $5,437, that's how much a fiber-optic Internet connection adds to the value of a $175,000 home. Bloomberg's Cory Johnson reports on "Bloomberg West, July 1, 2015."

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Blackphone, The Ultimate Hack-Proof Smartphone (video)

2015-07-20T00:00:00.000+02:00

Is This the Ultimate Hack-Proof Smartphone? - While smartphone apps may make life a little more convenient, there are concerns over their security. Javier Aguera is co-founder of Blackphone, which has been praised for its tough encryption and hack-proof reputation. Bloomberg's Stephen Engle speaks to Aguera about their upcoming mobile phone expected to be released in September. (published on Jul 16, 2015)

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Why Microsoft Wrote Down Nokia (video)

2015-07-13T02:18:00.001+02:00

Why Microsoft Wrote Down Nokia - Microsoft plans to cut as many as 7,800 jobs and write down about $7.6 billion on its Nokia phone-handset unit, wiping out nearly all of the value of a business it acquired just 14 months ago. Bloomberg's Cory Johnson reports on “Bloomberg Markets.” (July 8)

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Smartphones, Android, iOS, Tweets

2014-12-21T13:00:00.000+01:00

Google in talks with mobile operators for cheap overseas calls | via @Telegraph http://t.co/Tq5Nw9H98Y
— expri.net (@exprinet) April 5, 2015

Tweets about smartphone or android OR iOS

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Google Fiber, Internet Connections, Small Business

2014-12-14T13:00:00.000+01:00

Google Fiber Blog: "A super-fast c. From the start, small business owners have told us that they want Google Fiber to help them move faster, work better together, reach new parts of the world without boarding a plane, and save time for the important things—like growing their business." (read more at the link above)

more information: Google Fiber: https://fiber.google.com/about/

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Xiaomi, World's Third Largest Smartphone Vendor

2014-12-07T13:00:00.000+01:00

Xiaomi Becomes World's 3rd Largest Smartphone Vendor in Q3 2014: "According to the latest report from our WSS (Smartphones) research service, global smartphone shipments grew 27 percent annually to reach a record 320 million units in the third quarter of 2014. Xiaomi was the star performer, capturing a record 6 percent marketshare and becoming the world’s third largest smartphone vendor for the first time ever."

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Phone Hackers, Steal Billions

2014-11-30T13:00:00.000+01:00

Phone Hackers Dial and Redial to Steal Billions - NYTimes.com: ".... Mr. Foreman said his firm didn’t even realize this was a potential risk. Not many do. “It’s relentless,” said Jim Dalton, founder of TransNexus, which sells Internet calling management software. “If you put a computer on the Internet, it immediately starts getting probed for a weak point.” To avoid the same fate, Mr. Dalton and other telecom experts advise people to turn off call forwarding and set up strong passwords for their voice mail systems and for placing international calls. He also said businesses needed to treat their phones as Internet-connected machines, since criminals already were doing that. “People don’t realize their phone is a six-figure liability waiting to happen,” Mr. Dalton added."

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What's Your Favorite Phone of All Time?

2014-11-23T13:00:00.000+01:00

Mine? A Motorola StarTAC. For others it's a BlackBerry or Nokia--

Why my favourite phone of all time is an old Nokia - CNET: "...We shouldn't, then, expect a return to those low-fi, durable days. But I live in hope that one day we'll be treated to a phone so complete, so accomplished and so fun, that it emulates the 3210 in spirit, if not in actual hardware. Goodwill hunting Today, the Nokia phone brand seems to be on the brink of vanishing, as boss Stephen Elop has said that, post-Microsoft sale, the famous name "won't be around for long". When I think about the enormous amount of goodwill that quality devices like the Nokia 3210 instilled in my generation's collective consciousness -- particularly in Europe -- that move feels reckless, callous, and downright wrong. To the top-level execs at Microsoft, if you're reading this, please change your minds and keep Nokia's mobile flame aglow...."

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Xiaomi, Hugo Barra, True World Phones in 2016, All Android

2014-11-16T13:00:00.000+01:00

Xiaomi, Hugo Barra, True World Phones in 2016, All Android--

Xiaomi's Hugo Barra: True world phones in 2 years, Android all the way - CNET: "...."In a year or two, we will have completely shifted towards building inherently global products. Whenever we think about a new feature, we try to think about it from a Chinese perspective and a global perspective." The numbers show how precipitously Xiaomi is growing. The 4-year-old company is making phones as fast as it can sell them, and it's selling a lot of phones. In 2012, the company sold 7.2 million smartphones. In 2013, Xiaomi doubled that number, selling 18.7 million handsets. Xiaomi doubled its office space in lockstep -- the new, second building looking awfully Googley inside, complete with a giant slide from the second floor down to the first. The place also features wide-open areas with meeting spots and features cheery, bright colors and paintings that feel more at home in a startup than your usual typical corporate office...." --read more at link above, and mi.com

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The Courts and TCPA Consent

2014-11-09T13:00:00.000+01:00

Courts Continue To Wrestle With TCPA Consent | Carlton Fields Jorden Burt - JDSupra:

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Xiaomi now 3rd, will overtake Apple in 2015?

2014-11-02T13:00:00.001+01:00

Prediction: Xiaomi will overtake Apple to become second-largest smartphone maker in 2015--

Xiaomi overtakes LG to become world’s third-largest smartphone maker | 9to5Google: "Samsung and Apple maintained their positions as the first and second largest smartphone vendors worldwide respectively, while Xiaomi experienced significant growth as its market share grew to 5.6% in the third quarter compared to just 2.1% in the year-ago quarter. LG now holds down the fourth spot with 5.2% global market share. Xiaomi shipped 18 million smartphones during the third quarter, compared to 5.2 million smartphones in the year-ago quarter. Meanwhile, LG shipped 16.8 million smartphones during the same three-month period, a sizeable year-over-year increase from the 12 million smartphones it shipped in the third quarter last year."

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FTC Continues Its Pursuit of Robocalling

2014-10-26T13:00:00.000+01:00

FTC Continues Its Pursuit of "Robocalling" Platforms | Davis Wright Tremaine LLP - JDSupra:

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AT&T, Mobile Cramming Charges, $105 Million Settlement

2014-10-19T14:00:00.000+02:00

AT&T Pays $105 Million to Settle Mobile Cramming Charges | Re/code: "AT&T agreed to pay $105 million to settle claims that it allowed third-party companies to bill subscribers for millions of dollars in unauthorized charges, federal and state law enforcement officials announced Wednesday."

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Motorola, What Happened

2014-10-12T14:00:00.000+02:00

What Happened to Motorola | Chicago magazine | September 2014: "...The Indian-born, U.K.-educated engineer walked into a marketing organization that seemed completely disconnected from what was happening in the market. “On my second day at Motorola in August 2008,” says Jha, “I did a portfolio review of all the company’s phones. I sat for three hours and looked at everything, flabbergasted. There were no smartphones.” Jha called a meeting of the engineers to see how current they were. “I was told that Motorola actually developed and patented a lot of the stuff the company’s phones didn’t have,” he says. “The company was the first with a QWERTY keypad, with color screens, with 3G and touch.” But few Motorola phones had any of those features...."
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TCPA Litigation, No Industry Safe

2014-10-05T14:00:00.000+02:00

In The New Landscape of TCPA Litigation, No Industry Is Safe | Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck - JDSupra:

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Sprint, T-Mobile, Networks

2014-09-28T14:00:00.000+02:00

Sprint, T-Mobile: Separate Equals Better - InformationWeek: "....Sprint spent years wasting time and money on WiMax, the ill-fated 4G technology. When the rest of the industry sided with LTE, Sprint had no choice but to drop WiMax and start all over with LTE. Sprint trails even T-Mobile in deploying LTE around the country and often finishes last in speed tests and network reliability ratings. If Sprint really wants to compete aggressively, the first thing it needs to do is fix its network -- a task the company has already spent too much time and money on. A better network will be better for customers and for competition...."

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Apple CDN, Paid Deals With ISPs, Massive Capacity

2014-09-21T14:00:00.000+02:00

Apple's CDN Now Live: Has Paid Deals With ISPs, Massive Capacity In Place - Dan Rayburn - StreamingMediaBlog.com: "Since last year, Apple’s been hard at work building out their own CDN and now those efforts are paying off. Recently, Apple’s CDN has gone live in the U.S. and Europe and the company is now delivering some of their own content, directly to consumers. In addition, Apple has interconnect deals in place with multiple ISPs, including Comcast and others, and has paid to get direct access to their networks... Apple already controls the hardware, the OS (iOS/OS X) as well as the iTunes/App store platforms. Right now they control the entire customer experience, except for the way content is delivered to their devices, and they are quickly working to change that. While Apple doesn’t own the last mile, paying to connect directly to it (in some places) and delivering content from their own servers allows them much more control over the user experience, especially for cloud based services. Over time, this is something that will make the experience and performance for consumers even better – and Apple’s only just getting started." (read more at link above)

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Mobile Web, Android Surpasses Apple

2014-09-14T14:00:00.000+02:00

• Chart: Mobile Web: Android Surpasses Apple | Statista:
Mobile Web, Android Surpasses Apple

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US Tops Global Spam Mail Rankings

2014-09-07T14:00:00.000+02:00

• Chart: The U.S. Tops Global Spam Mail Rankings | Statista:

US Tops Global Spam Mail Rankings

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Is a Third Smartphone Ecosystem a Lost Cause? (video)

2014-08-31T14:00:00.000+02:00

Video - Is a Third Smartphone Ecosystem a Lost Cause? - WSJ.com:
Is a Third Smartphone Ecosystem a Lost Cause? WSJ's Thomas Gryta joins digits and explains that although telecom executives have supported a third smartphone ecosystem to compete with Android and iOS, the numbers paint a bleak picture.

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Huawei vs Samsung

2014-08-24T14:00:00.000+02:00

Is Huawei Eating Samsung’s Lunch? - Digits - WSJ: "... Chinese smartphone makers Huawei Technologies and Lenovo Group 0992.HK -2.23% gained market share at the expense of South Korea’s Samsung Electronics in the second quarter, according to the latest data released Tuesday by research firm IDC. Huawei’s shipments in the quarter jumped 95% from a year earlier, while Lenovo enjoyed a 39% increase, IDC said. Both companies outpaced the 23% growth in the overall smartphone market. Shipments at Samsung, the world’s largest smartphone maker, declined 3.9%. While China’s smartphone market is becoming more saturated, demand is strong in emerging markets in Asia, Latin America and Africa, where many consumers are still replacing their basic feature phones...." (read more at the link above)

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Android One, Less than $100 Smartphone by Google

2014-08-17T14:00:00.000+02:00

Google Shows Developers a Sub-$100 Smartphone | MIT Technology Review: "A low-cost smartphone designed by Google will go on sale in India this fall before debuting in other emerging economies, the company announced today. The phones will be branded “Android One,” after the company’s mobile operating system Android, and will cost less than $100. They are part of a new effort by Google to get devices based on its software into the hands of people who currently lack access to the Internet. Already, one billion people use phones running Google’s Android software, said Sundar Pichai, leader of Google’s Android division, at the company’s I/O conference in San Francisco today. “Our goal is to reach the next five billion people in the world,” he said. “In India and other countries like that, it’s disappointing that less than 10 percent of the population have access to smartphones...." (read more at link above)

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Smartphones, The Cloud, Search Warrants Required

2014-08-10T14:00:00.000+02:00

Private Castles in the Cloud | MIT Technology Review: "On June 25, the Supreme Court handed down a landmark ruling on digital privacy. In U.S. v. Wurie and Riley v. California, the court unanimously held that police generally require a warrant to search information on cell phones seized from people who have been arrested. Writing for eight of the justices (Justice Samuel Alito issued his own concurring opinion), Chief Justice John Roberts acknowledged that the court understood how this ruling might pose issues for law enforcement but said, “Our answer to the question of what police must do before searching a cell phone seized incident to an arrest is accordingly simple—get a warrant.”..."

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FCC Warns ISPs May be Regulated as Utilities

2014-08-03T14:00:00.000+02:00

FCC Warns ISPs May be Regulated as Utilities | White & Case LLP - JDSupra:

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YouTube rating US ISPs, settlement-free peering

2014-07-27T14:00:00.000+02:00

YouTube starts rating US ISPs, puts its weight behind settlement-free peering — Tech News and Analysis: "Google released an U.S.-focused version of its video quality report Tuesday, which offers users a way to check which of their local ISPs deliver the best-looking YouTube streams. The report is singling out some ISPs as “HD verified” which YouTube Product Manager Jay Akkad defined this way in a blog post: “If your provider can consistently deliver HD video, a resolution of at least 720p, without buffering or interruptions — it’s HD Verified.”

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