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New Kind of Orbit Could Ease Mars Communications
FCC Preparing Transition To VoIP Telephone Network
HTC Dragging Feet On GPL Source Release For "Hero" Phone
IBM Smartphone Software Translates 11 Languages
Telecoms Announce "One Voice" Initiative To Promote LTE Wireless Broadband Stand
How Mobile Phones Work Behind the Scenes
New Gadget Blocks 'Spam' Phone Calls
New Virginia IT Systems Lack Network Backup
Mediterranean Undersea Cables Cut, Again
Google Unveils First Android Phone
Verizon To Charge Content Providers $.03 Per SMS
Pidgin Controversy Triggers Fork
FCC's Spectrum Auction Approaches $20B in Bids
Adobe Releases Preview of 64-bit Flash For Linux
Is XMPP the 'Next Big Thing'
World's First 21Mbps EHSPA/HSPA+ Data "Call"
Free Phone Calls... If Advertisers Can Eavesdrop
Choosing a Replacement Email System For a University?
The State of UK Broadband — Not So Fast
Google Working on a Mobile Phone?
Telstra Kicked Out of $15bn Broadband Project
IBM Wants Patent For Lotus Notes-Free Meetings
GrandCentral Reborn As Google Voice
Analyzing Apple's iPhone Strategy
Blackberry Network is Down
Brazilian Pirates Hijack US Military Satellites
Cell Phone Jamming on the Rise
Colossus Cracks Again
Comcast Charges $1000 Per Wiretap
Comcast Proposes Self Regulation and P2P Bill of Rights
Communicating Persuasively, Email or Face-to-Face?
Compressed VoIP Leaves Eavesdropping Clues
Emailaholics Reveal Their Habits
Encrypt and Sign Gmail messages with FireGPG
Exec Confirms Google Phone
Fighting Back Against Ghost Calls
Gmail Adds 5 Second Send Rule
Google Announces "Open Phone" Coalition, No gPhone [Updated]
Google May Close Gmail Germany Over Privacy Law
Guide to DIY Wiretapping
High Def Microphone for Mobile Computing
Hotmail vs Goodmail
MSN Censors Your IM
More Skype Back Door Speculation
Must-Have Extensions for Thunderbird 2.0
Paying People to Argue With You
Single Photons Bounced Off Orbiting Satellite
Smartphone Shootout
Study Finds Instant Messaging Helps Productivity
Swearing at Work is Bleeping Good For You
Verizon vs. the Needham Fire Department
What Happens If You Don't Pay for Goodmail?
Why Email Has Become Dangerous
Wikileaks Publishes FBI VoIP Surveillance Docs
Yahoo Tries to Improve Your Inbox
gTalk To Get Video Boost?
iPhone Gets Better Battery, Scratch Resistant Glass
EA Forum Ban Will Now Mean EA Game Ban
First Secure Quantum Crypto Network Up and Running
CMU Video Conference System Gets 3D From Cheap Webcams
How To Rack Up $28,000 In Roaming Without Leaving the US
Study Finds iPhone Twice As Reliable As BlackBerry
Handling Caller ID Spoofing?
Obama Staffers Followed Palin's Email Lead On Inauguration Day
Microsoft Embraces AMQP Open Middleware Standard
UK Government Says More Spying Needed
Fairpoint Pledges To Violate Net Neutrality
What Carriers Don't Want You To Know About Texting
Hacked Business Owner Stuck With $52k Phone Bill
Presidential Inauguration Hardware and Other Challenges
Why TV Lost
Verizon.net Finally Moving Email To Port 587
State Dept E-mail Crash After "Reply-All" Storm
US Army Sees Twitter As Possible Terrorist "Operation Tool"
Irish GSM Providers Asked to Track Users' Web Use
Data Center Raid About Unpaid Telco Fees
Verizon Wants To Share Your Personal Information
The Second Coming of Virtual Worlds
Network Neutrality Defenders Quietly Backing Off?
Scientists "Teleport" Quantum Information One Meter
Extended Gmail Outage Frustrates Admins
Call Someone – Without Having To Talk To Them
Openmoko Phone Not Dead After All
Why We Need Unlicensed White-Space Broadband Spectrum
Huge iPhone Cut-and-Paste Tool Security Flaw
Dell's Smartphone Rejected — Too Dull
Here Comes iPhone Nano, But Not In the US
Time Warner To Offer Unlimited Bandwidth For $150
$6 Billion Proposal For High-Speed Internet Grants
NFL's First Broadcast In 3-D, Still Has Work To Do
Air Traffic Controller Lands Stricken Plane By SMS
Gigabit Wi-Fi On the Horizon
Russian Google Competitor Embraces Open Source Messaging
Europe Is Testing 12.5 Gbps Wireless
Obama Administration Defends Warrantless Wiretapping
How To Track the Bug-Trackers?
Raising Doubts About Australia's Broadband Upgrade Plan
Apple Disables Egyptian iPhones' GPS
How SBC (AT&T) Pillaged South Africa's Economy
FCC Publishes "White Spaces" Rules
TrapCall Service To Bypass Caller ID Blocking
UK Outlines Plan For Internet Black Boxes
Google Blames Gmail Troubles On Maintenance Goof
ISPs Fight To Keep Broadband Gaps Secret
Instant Messaging Vulnerable To New Smiley Attacks
Judge Tosses Telco Suit Over City-Owned Network
Is Anyone Buying T-Mobile's Googlephone?
After 35 Years, Another Message Sent From Arecibo
Canada Supreme Court Broadens Internet "Luring" Offense
Google Eliminates Gizmo5 Client For Linux
India Hanging Up On 25 Million Cell Phones
Intelsat Launches Hardware For Internet Routing From Space
Shedding Your Identity In the Digital Age
Telcos Want Big Subsidies, Not Line-Sharing
Ten Things Mobile Phones Will Make Obsolete
Storing Photons In a Solid State Device
Whistleblower Claims NSA Spied On Everyone, Targeted Media
Researchers Apply P2P Principles To Car Traffic
New Startup Hopes to Push Open Source Pharmaceuticals
Newton's Ghost Haunts Apple's iPhone
London Is Still World's Wi-Fi Access Point Capital
Verizon Exposes the Wrong 1,200 Email Addresses
Norwegian Broadcasting Sets Up Its Own Tracker
China Eases Licensing Rules For Foreign Media Sources
Internet Communications While At Sea?
USPS Server Meltdown
Grandma's On the Computer Screen This Thanksgiving
Opera 9.60 Released, With Upgraded Mail Client
NSA's History of Communications Security — For Your Eyes, Too
Berners-Lee Says No To Internet Snooping
Virus Infection Hits UK's Ministry of Defense, Including Warships
European Crackdown On Skype "Loophole"
Mobile Broadband to Hit 42Mb/sec In 2009
Psystar Case Reveals Poor Email Archiving At Apple
iPhone App Causes Google To Shut Down SMS Service
Comcast Bringing Metropolitan WiMAX To Subscribers
Intel Boosts Optical Communication Speeds
Russian Hopes To Cash In On Emoticons
Cinder Mobile OS Lets Users Send More Power To Slow Apps
No More OpenMoko Phone
The Next Big Thing — Why Web 2.0 Isn't Enough
Arranging Electronic Access For Your Survivors?
Organized Online, Students Storm Gov't. Buildings In Moldova
Outage Knocks Gmail Offline For Many Users
How To Help With a University ICT Strategy?
February Deadline For Emergency Beacons Approaches
NSA Whistleblowers Reveal Extent of Eavesdropping
Obama's Mobile Phone Records Compromised, Shared
"Stealth" Plasma Antennas
Interplanetary Internet Tested In Space
Theorists Make Quantum Communications Breakthrough
How to Backup Your Smart Phone
Honda Makes Motorcycle Talk To Oncoming Cars
Broadcom Crams 802.11n, Bluetooth, and FM Onto a Single Chip
Feds Can Locate Cell Phones Without Telcos
Group Pushes FCC To Investigate Skype for iPhone
Researchers Latch Onto BitTorrent To Spot Connection Problems
The First Phone Call Was 133 Years Ago
iPhone 3.0 Software Announced
iPhone's Game Potential As a Threat to Java Phone Games
Adobe To Open Real-Time Messaging Protocol
Tapping the IPhone, Courtesy of Yahoo!
The End for Vonage?
Are Spammers Giving Up?
Charter Cable Capping Usage Nationwide This Month
Breakthrough Brings Star Trek Transporter Closer
Google Voice Now Works WIth Existing Mobile Numbers
"Father of Fiber Optics" Wins Nobel Prize
"Series of Tubes" Metaphor Implemented
"Time Telescope" Could Boost Fibre-Optic Communications
100 Email Bouncebacks - Welcome to Backscattering
20% of U.S. Population Has Never Used Email
2008 International Broadband Rankings
26 Years Old and Can't Write In Cursive
40 Years After Carterphone Ended AT&T Equipment Monopoly
45-Year-Old Modem Used To Surf the Web
A DIYer's Quick Guide To Cheap Wireless Extension
A Different Perspective On Snow Leopard's Exchange Support
A Full-Time 2-Way Video Link To Grandparents?
A Good Reason To Go Full-Time SSL For Gmail
A Look Back at One of the Original Phreaks
A Possible Cause of AT&T's Wireless Clog — Configuration Errors
A Real-World Test of the Verizon MiFi
A Scooter With Everything (For Certain Values of Everything)
ACLU Warns of Next Pass At Telecom Immunity
AOL Adopting Jabber (XMPP)
AOL Users Will Need to Pay $2 a Month For Phone Support
AT&T Launching Mobile TV May 4th
AT&T Makes Its Terms of Service Even Worse, To Discourage Lawsuits
AT&T Slaps Family With a $19,370 Cell Phone Bill
AT&T To Replace 17,000 Batteries
AT&T Vs. Apple Store At the iPhone Launch
AT&T Buries ToS Changes In 2500-Page Guide
AT&T Deal With eMusic Excludes iPhones
AT&T Dumps VOIP Customers
AT&T Quietly Introduces $10/Month DSL
AU Goverment To Break Up Telstra; Filtering News
Alexander Graham Bell - Patent Thief?
Alternative Uses For an Old Satellite Dish?
An IM Patent for the iPhone?