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- Top 10 IT headlines for July 11: Long, slow lines for iPhone 3G, FCC could sanction Comcast
- Top 10 IT headlines for Friday, July 11: The five upgrades that make iPhone 3G ready for business, FCC could sanction Comcast, Salesforce and Oracle lead march of iPhone business apps, Intel develops products for health monitoring, and more. by Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-07-11
- Comcast switch to throttling bandwidth hogs
- In the wake of an investigation by the FCC Federal Communications Commission that attempts by Comcast to throttle P2P applications violated network neutrality principles, Comcast announced that it will be shifting toward a more agnostic approach. As part of fulfilling the promise, Comcast this week began testing...
- Blog posts 2008-06-06
- Penetration testing: Hacking the FBI
- There's something about penetration testing that is just so attractive. Can you imagine being paid to find embarrassing security holes? It's the ultimate puzzle with the ultimate "I'm smarter than you" grand prize. And I just know that it would appeal to some of the people who...
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- FBI investigation nets $3.5 million worth of fake network equipment
- The FBI has announced that an investigation into counterfeit network components made in China -- and sold to the U.S. government -- has recovered about 3,500 fake devices with a value of $3.5 million. The uncovered devices include pirated versions of Cisco routers, switches, interface converters, and...
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Top IT news for April 24: FBI wants to monitor Internet, strong earnings from Apple, Vista SP1 goes automatic
- Top five headlines FBI eyes widespread monitoring of Net Apple blows through estimates; Ships 2.29 million Macs; Outlook light by design? Microsoft begins automatic distribution of Vista SP1 today Report: Yahoo, Google talk with DOJ on ad test Ballmer: We don’t need Yahoo...
- Blog posts 2008-04-24
- Google wants in to the television "white space"
- Google failed to be a player in the FCC auction that recently ended. Indeed, it was described as the "happy losers" in the 700 MHz space, only having been able to secure "open" definitions to insure that third-party apps would have consideration in that space -- something that we...
- Blog posts 2008-03-26
- Security consultant alleges FBI backdoor into major wireless carrier
- A computer security consultant has come forward with allegations that the FBI has direct high-speed access to the internal systems of a major wireless carrier. The CEO of New York-based firm Bat Blue, Babak Pasdar, won't name the wireless carrier, but he claims he chanced upon the...
- Blog posts 2008-03-06
- Geek Trivia: Hollywood hack job
- If someone asks the average person to compile a list of notorious hackers from history, odds are the first name they'd come up is "that kid from WarGames." When someone explains that WarGames was just a movie, the average Joe would probably do a Google search and come up with...
- Blog posts 2008-02-26
- Prepare for open wireless Internet -- the 700 MHz C block has hit its reserve price
- On Thursday, the coveted "C block" of the FCC's 700 MHz auction saw its high bid rise to $4.7 million, passing the reserve price of $4.6 million set by the FCC. This is critical because the FCC has set the restriction on the C block that any licensees must "allow...
- Blog posts 2008-02-01
- Prototype "white space" broadband devices submitted to FCC for testing
- Additional prototypes of "white space" wireless broadband devices have been submitted by Microsoft and three other companies to the FCC's Office of Engineering and Technology for testing. These prototypes are intended to demonstrate the viability of leveraging the "white spaces" in the spectrum currently devoted to broadcast TV for unlicensed...
- Blog posts 2008-01-19
- FCC officially opens proceedings against Comcast
- The FCC has opened a pair of rule-making proceedings over network management against cable giant Comcast. It was discovered that Comcast occasionally blocks traffic from sites like BitTorrent and others. Comcast says that it is “shaping†network traffic, not targeting any particular type of traffic. ...
- Blog posts 2008-01-15
- FBI to construct massive biometrics database
- At a price of $1 billion, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is undertaking construction of a biometric database that will store a lot more information on individuals including fingerprints, facial characteristics, sound patterns, iris, ear lobe, and palm prints. An excerpt from Ars Technica: Moving...
- Blog posts 2007-12-26
- Backup power mandated for 210K cell towers
- There is an article at Data Center Knowledge that explores the ramifications from the FCC's decision a couple of months back to require backup power for cell sites and other parts of the telecom infrastructure. According to the article: The new measures, prompted by an FCC review...
- Blog posts 2007-12-10
- Botnets: Can they be beaten?
- Botnets: the plague of the Internet in recent times, they are used to perpetrate all sorts of illegal activities from collecting personal and confidential information to hammering mail servers with SPAM. Botnets have been known about for years and have proven very difficult for law enforcement agencies to crack...
- Blog posts 2007-12-02
- New Zealand police moves in on botmaster of one million bots
- As part of the FBI's Operation Bot Roast II, New Zealand police cracked down on a suspected botnet ringleader in New Zealand, whom the FBI says controls over one million computers illegally. This is part of the same operation that resulted in the arrest of security consultant...
- Blog posts 2007-11-30
- Faulty forensic test put innocents in jail over decades
- A faulty forensic analysis has put hundreds of innocent people in jail over decades, according to a joint investigation by The Washington Post and 60 Minutes. Eventually found to be unreliable, it was quietly dumped four decades later without alerting those convicted. The "comparative bullet-lead analysis"...
- Blog posts 2007-11-19
- Legit Web video distributor asks FCC to stop ISP traffic throttling
- A Web-based distributor of online video content has filed a complaint with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, asking for traffic throttling be prohibited by ISPs. The petition was filed by Vuze, which uses the BitTorrent protocol to distribute its contents. Gilles BianRosa, CEO of Vuze, said,...
- Blog posts 2007-11-18
- Verizon notice causes confusion among customers
- Notices sent by Verizon Wireless confused several customers into believing that that company was about to share customer data with third-party firms. However, later clarification stated that this was not the case. A copy of the notice, accessible at CrunchGear, stated that Verizon would be sharing...
- Blog posts 2007-10-16
- Google dangles bait before FCC to catch Open Access
- Google's dropped a nice, shiny lure before the cash-starved Federal Communications Commission as Google fishes for open access on the 700MHz band; $4,600,000,000 and up, a tidy sum exceeding the FCC's annual budget a dozen times over. With federal deficits zooming, this would make the Commission...
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- Will the government ruin VoIP?
- Say all you want about the benefits of convergence and extra features, but most companies and individuals will admit that the biggest attraction of switching from PSTN phone service to VoIP is the prospect of saving money -- in some cases, lots of it.Why VoIP costs lessOne reason VoIP costs...
- Blog posts 2007-06-14
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