“The telephone network is obsolete”: Get ready for the all-IP telco
AT&T wants to get rid of obsolete PSTN equipment, and those pesky FCC rules.
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Satellite Internet: 15Mbps, no matter where you live in the US
Satellite vendors say they can fill America's broadband gap.
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Airline lost your luggage? Track it on a map with this cellular device
CES startup pitches Trakdot for tracking your suitcase.
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A wireless router that tracks user activity—but for a good reason
Routers upload data to the cloud with goal of making everyone's network faster.
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Kim Dotcom: US “planted” evidence to obtain illegal search warrants
Megaupload says it kept infringing files—only because US ordered it to do so.
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Why Mark Shuttleworth thinks Ubuntu on phones will outclass Android
It will be the best phone for newbies and the most powerful phone for geeks.
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Canonical unveils Ubuntu phone OS that doubles as a “full PC”
Seeking OEMs: Who will build Ubuntu phones?
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10 Raspberry Pi creations that show how amazing the tiny PC can be
Arcade cabinets, robots, wearable computers and more built by Pi hobbyists.
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A Google-y sigh of relief
Italy finally acquits Google execs convicted over user-uploaded video
Decision that set a dangerous precedent for Internet freedom is overturned.
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Ars readers confirm: We want dual-persona smartphones
74 percent either want a dual-persona phone now, or are interested in the idea.
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Copy that
Building Amazon cloud apps that span the world is now much easier
Prepare for outages by copying snapshots from one data center to another.
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Poll Technica: Would you use a dual-persona smartphone?
Want a smartphone that totally isolates work apps and data from personal ones?
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The store of Pi
Raspberry Pi now has an app store (and yes, it has games)
Pi Store to host applications, developer tools, and homebrew tutorials.
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Using Windows 8's "hidden" backup to clone and recover your whole PC
Ability to create System Images was buried in Windows 8, but not eliminated.
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Dishing out spectrum
Dish gets FCC approval to build next-generation LTE network
LTE-Advanced network won't arrive until 2016.
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On the run
john.mcafee.win32 being removed from quarantine soon
Hopes to find refuge in the US to avoid Belize murder inquiry.
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Everybody stop panicking
Why Gmail went down: Google misconfigured load balancing servers (Updated)
Load balancing change affected multiple products including Chrome and Gmail.
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Maybe Philip Seymour Hoffman wrote it
Google+ says Truman Capote, dead 28 years, now writes for the NYT
Algorithm linking authors to stories credits late novelist with Times article.
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Intel pitches ARM alternative to data centers—including Facebook's
Six-watt, server-class Atom CPU is 64-bit and has virtualization baked in.
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Shuttleworth: Ubuntu's goal is one OS from phones to supercomputers
Will Ubuntu phones and tablets convince customers to buy Ubuntu desktops?
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Richard Stallman calls Ubuntu “spyware” because it tracks searches
Canonical plans to expand controversial search mechanism in Ubuntu 13.04.
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Set your apps free
Google kills free version of Google Apps for businesses
All new business customers must pay $50 per user per year.
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Dispatches from jail
John McAfee arrested, asks for computer, blogs from jail cell (updated)
McAfee, Inc. founder may be sent back to Belize in relation to a murder.
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How Windows tech support scammers walked right into a trap set by the feds
Sometimes scammers are just as likely to fall for a good con as anyone else.
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Android-ization of IT
Google now lets businesses build private Android app stores
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