FCC Chairman Ajit Pai to leave telecom agency on January 20
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai, a Republican, says he is leaving the telecommunications regulator on Inauguration Day.
Nov 30, 2020
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Survey finds poor internet service a deterrent to rural living
When the COVID-19 pandemic settled in for the long haul, and people were no longer tethered to an office building, or even a town, some of them looked to the hills.
Nov 04, 2020
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Tech companies step up to bring free Wi-Fi to LA public housing residents
Nearly 9,000 residents of public housing in Los Angeles will receive free broadband internet access for the rest of the 2020-21 school year as part of a new partnership between the city, Microsoft and the start-up internet ...
Oct 14, 2020
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Securing the internet
While many people can name an Internet Service Provider (ISP) and describe what an ISP does, fewer people know the exchange of internet traffic that happens between different ISPs' networks, which are called Autonomous Systems ...
Sep 01, 2020
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Q&A: College COVID-19 pandemic apps should follow best practices for privacy, ethical computing
As students head back to campuses across the country, many colleges and universities are using mobile phone and web apps to help them manage the pandemic.
Aug 28, 2020
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Researchers develope new method to defend against smart home cyberattacks
Instead of relying on customers to protect their vulnerable smart home devices from being used in cyberattacks, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and National University of Singapore (NUS) researchers have developed ...
Aug 03, 2020
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Private browsing: What it does – and doesn't do – to shield you from prying eyes on the web
Many people look for more privacy when they browse the web by using their browsers in privacy-protecting modes, called "Private Browsing" in Mozilla Firefox, Opera and Apple Safari; "Incognito" in Google Chrome; and "InPrivate" ...
Jul 30, 2020
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T-Mobile aims first wireless broadband service at rural homes
T-Mobile US Inc., taking a first step in its long-promised assault of cable and phone companies' landline businesses, is launching wireless broadband service to homes in rural areas.
Jul 09, 2020
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Plug-and-play bug exposes millions of network devices
A bug in a protocol used by virtually all Internet of Things devices exposes millions of users to potential attack, a researcher reported Monday. The fault centers on the Universal Plug and Play protocol, a 12-year-old implementation ...
Jun 12, 2020 report
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In anti-piracy work, blocking websites more effective when multiple sites are targeted
An important challenge facing media industries today is whether and how copyright policy should be adapted to the realities of the digital age. The invention and subsequent adoption of filesharing technologies has eroded ...
Jun 02, 2020
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Internet service provider
An Internet service provider (ISP, also called Internet access provider, or IAP) is a company that offers its customers access to the Internet. The ISP connects to its customers using a data transmission technology appropriate for delivering Internet Protocol datagrams, such as dial-up, DSL, cable modem, wireless or dedicated high-speed interconnects.
ISPs may provide Internet e-mail accounts to users which allow them to communicate with one another by sending and receiving electronic messages through their ISPs' servers. (As part of their e-mail service, ISPs usually offer the user an e-mail client software package, developed either internally or through an outside contract arrangement.) ISPs may provide other services such as remotely storing data files on behalf of their customers, as well as other services unique to each particular ISP.
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