telecommunications

Thousands of Optus customers who had personal details stolen in a cyberattack and leaked on the dark web may never find out how the breach happened after the telecommunications group pleaded “legal professional privilege” to try to stop a report into the hack being released. Optus asks court to...

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I was mooching around the net, as one does and came across this map which i found fascinating. It shows all the undersea communication cables. I didn't realise there are so many! See the full map here: Submarine Cable Map

What an incredible week at CES! It’s always exciting to see new devices and experiences, including new Windows 10 devices from Acer, Alcatel, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Samsung, and many more. We continue to be energized by the passion we see for the Windows ecosystem, with Windows 10 now running on more...

IBM's ANZ distribution sales manager, Leo Lynch, has joined Chinese telecommunications giant, Huawei, as its director of channel sales. Link Removed

Paying by the Gigabyte and Getting Locked In The greatest fraud ever perpetrated against consumers may exist at the old offices of Enron, or maybe some Federal Reserve banks. But here in the United States, it has not been uncommon to see cellphone companies gouge customers under the excuse that...

A flashmob is a group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual and sometimes seemingly pointless act for a brief time, then disperse, often for the purposes of entertainment and/or satire. Flashmobs are organized via telecommunications, social media, or viral emails...

"The Japanese government has moved to crack down on independent reportage and criticism of the government's policies in the wake of the disaster by deciding what citizens may or may not talk about in public. A new project team has been created by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and...

The back-and-forth between AT&T and Verizon over the quality of their wireless services ended up making its way into some high-profile primetime commercials. But it's not the only fight that Verizon has been waging with competitors. The company also took issue with advertising run by Time...

Google has selected local Internet provider Sonic.net as a partner for its high-profile project to deliver ultra-fast broadband services to a select few homes in the South Bay.Sonic.net will provide customer service and perform on-site installations for the fiber optic broadband network...

Alongside several other models, the Samsung Omnia 7 was just made available as a means to exhibit eagerly anticipated Microsoft Windows Phone 7 OS. This super stylish looking device provides the impressive new OS in partnership with a 1 GHz chip, five mp digital camera, tons of internal storage...

i currently have a ADSL modem 802.11g and would like to upgrade it to a modem that matches my Wireless PCI Adaptor (D-Link DWA 556) and the matching modem is a D-Link DIR-655. this modem has also been tested as the fastest modem you can buy but it only has a ethernet port and therefor cant find...

The Internet is about to face one of its most serious issues in its history: experts have warned that the Internet is running out of addresses, and may run out by 2011. At issue is slow adoption of a new system intended to vastly increase the available pool, further complicating matters...

Pigeon is 'faster than broadband' An IT company in Durban, South Africa has discovered that a pigeon can carry data faster than broadband. Staff at Unlimited IT pitted an 11-month-old bird bearing a 4GB memory stick against the ADSL service from the country's biggest web provider, Telkom...

Sprint Nextel provided law enforcement agencies with customer location data more than 8 million times between September 2008 and October 2009

this just popped in my email box: "The controversial landline tax, designed to fund next generation broadband services, is to be made law before the general election. The 50p a month landline tax is to be included in this year's finance bill with the aim to raise up to £175million a year...

I have recently upgraded my main pc to vista ultimate, have set up ICS to share the wireless connection i have where I live and it runs though a linksys 8 port switch, it works fine on all the machines "3 total atm" untill i launch a game like DAOC or COD2 on the main PC then the XP machine...