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NYC is turning thousands of payphones into Wi-Fi hotspots

For several years now we’ve been hearing stories about New York City’s public payphone kiosks being turned into Wi-Fi hotspots, and it finally looks like something’s going to happen. LinkNYC...

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FCC will probably reject Obama's net neutrality plan

Just a day after U.S. President Barack Obama publicly came out in support of net neutrality, asking the Federal Communications Commission to reclassify Internet service as a utility, its chairman...

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Spotify responds to Taylor Swift's harsh criticism

Last week we learned that pop star Taylor Swift decided to remove all her music from Spotify because she felt that it doesn’t “fairly compensate the writers, producers, artists, and...

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China may be behind the cyberattcks on USPS

It was announced yesterday that the United States Postal Service’s (USPS) computer networks experienced a breach some time in September, and it remains to be seen as to the exact...

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AT&T gets sued by the FTC for throttling unlimited data customers

AT&T is facing blowback from a decision it made back in 2011 to throttle some of its unlimited data customers today in the form of a new lawsuit from the...

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Staples is the latest company to suffer a massive data breach

Announced this week, Staples representatives confirmed that the company is looking into a breach of the retailer’s computer systems that allowed consumer’s credit card data to fall into the hands...

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FCC says 24GHz spectrum could open the door to 5G in the US

The Federal Communications Commission is starting to plan for cellular networks that can send users gigantic streams of data, but there are technical challenges to be solved and years of...

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FBI warns US companies of Chinese cyberattack campaign

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation issued a warning to companies and organizations on Wednesday of cyberattacks by people linked with the Chinese government. The advisory, issued privately, contains “information...

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Twitter is suing the US government for the right to be transparent

Twitter is sick of US government-imposed secrecy. After months of attempted negotiations, the company has filed a lawsuit on Tuesday, alleging that the restrictions imposed by the government, which regulate...

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Google Fiber is being held back by insane TV studio fees

Cord cutting may be the future but Google Fiber unfortunately still has to deal with the present, and that means it has to shell out cash to TV studios for...

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