The latest figures from the International Telecommunications Union buttress the Obama Administration's focus on wireless broadband deployment, with the number of worldwide mobile broadband subscriptions approaching 2 billion.
Black Americans find their voice on Twitter forums
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Like most early Twitter users, many young black Americans initially took to microblogging to follow celebrities or send short, quick messages to friends on their phones, but the site has since grown to become an important forum to discuss broad issues around race in America.
US phone companies never once challenged NSA data requests
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None of the phone companies that handed over communications metadata in bulk to the National Security Agency ever challenged the agency on its data requests.
Smart phone searches by police should raise alarm
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The more we hear about President Obama's attitude toward privacy, the less we like. The latest eyebrow-raiser is the Administration's argument that the Fourth Amendment allows warrantless cell phone searches.
Why don’t Facebook and Google just embrace that they’re monetizing the third world?
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You’d be hard pressed to find many fooled that Internet.org is anything but a Trojan horse for some big tech companies to access new customers.
Democrats demand Obama ‘end the bulk collection of phone records’
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Sens. Mark Udall (D-CO) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) demanded that President Barack Obama “end the bulk collection” of the public’s phone records.
Big disconnect: Telcos abandon copper phone lines
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Robert Post misses his phone line. Post, 85, has a pacemaker that needs to be checked once a month by phone. But the copper wiring that once connected his home to the rest of the world is gone, and the phone company refuses to restore it.
AT&T CEO: Data Caps Are About Charging Content Providers
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The quest to determine why data caps really exist may be starting to wind down. Internet service providers (ISPs) have admitted, either explicitly or implicitly, that monthly data caps have nothing to do with network congestion. And, while some have started to portray data caps as legitimate forms of price discrimination, that argument did not hold up to close scrutiny either. So what's left?
Marco Rubio Forced To Clarify That He Is Not Giving Away Free Cellphones
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Lots going on up at Capitol Hill which is kind of not the ideal environment for a bunch of right-wing blogs to start dredging up nonsense over a sinister plan to give away free cellphones, mirroring the ancient election year grievance over "Obamaphones," but that's what's happened.