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Volume 31 : Issue 231 : "text" Format
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Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 16:56:31 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Apple maps is a costly wrong turn
Message-ID: <p06240810cc9256a33968@[10.0.1.7]>
Apple maps is a costly wrong turn
EDITORIAL
The Boston Globe
OCTOBER 03, 2012
>From a business standpoint, it's understandable why Apple dropped the
Google Maps app from its latest smartphone operating system. In its
version for Apple iPhones, Google had withheld one of the most
popular features - turn-by-turn directions that mimic a car GPS -
presumably to make Google's own Android phones more attractive. But
Apple's decision to replace Google Maps with a half-baked in-house
program was a costly error.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/editorials/2012/10/03/apple-maps-costly-wrong-turn/YWXQ69O3DB784X3wLdzQRK/story.html?s_campaign=8315
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 16:39:37 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Deutsche Telekom, MetroPCS to merge U.S. mobile businesses
Message-ID: <p0624080dcc9252d053f0@[10.0.1.7]>
Deutsche Telekom, MetroPCS to merge U.S. mobile businesses
By Harro Ten Wolde and Sinead Carew
FRANKFURT/NEW YORK | Wed Oct 3, 2012
(Reuters) - Deutsche Telekom and MetroPCS said they will merge their
U.S. mobile operations to create a larger fourth-place player better
able to compete with rivals.
The boards of both companies voted on Wednesday to approve the deal,
which will see Deutsche Telekom hold 74 percent and MetroPCS 26
percent in the combined entity.
...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/03/us-deutschetelekom-tmobile-idUSBRE8920IY20121003
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 10:30:05 -0400
From: danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: T-Mobile and Metro-PCS announce merger
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.1210031028070.20558@panix5.panix.com>
[press release]
Bonn, Germany; Bellevue, WA; and Richardson, TX
October 3, 2012
Deutsche Telekom and MetroPCS Communications, Inc. today announced that
they have signed a definitive agreement to combine T-Mobile USA and
MetroPCS.
[Modertor snip]
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rest:
http://newsroom.t-mobile.com/articles/t-mobile-metropcs-combine
_____________________________________________________
Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key
dannyb@panix.com
[to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 15:53:23 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: UPenn: Hackers leak personal info of students, employees and alums
Message-ID: <p06240804cc9247bebb9c@[10.0.1.7]>
Hackers leak personal info of students, employees and alums
Team GhostShell, the group of hackers, has posted information from a
Penn database
By JULIE XIE
October 2, 2012
Around 120,000 records from universities around the world including
Penn were released on the internet Monday.
Full names, PennCard numbers, phone numbers and email addresses of
students, administrators and alumni were posted online. A total of
1,764 entries from Penn were released.
Information from five database tables called "aod_user,"
"coursereview_tblusers," "lgbtc_users," "nec_wp_users" and
"OHE_FS_student" have been released. They were all part of a larger
database entitled "vpul."
According to the leak, 322 database tables from Penn have been
compromised, of which only these five have been released. This
information was published on three different sites and has since been
taken down from two of them.
The database tables listed seem to correspond with programs under the
Office of the Vice Provost for University Life.
Vice President for University Communications Stephen MacCarthy
confirmed the University became aware of the issue on Tuesday.
Information Systems and Computing staff have taken the system that
was hacked offline and are working to fix the issue.
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http://www.thedp.com/article/2012/10/hackers-leak-personal-info-of-students-admins-and-alums
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2012 02:11:17 -0400
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: LightSquared tries to keep its 4G LTE dream alive
Message-ID: <506D2885.1070402@horne.net>
LightSquared tries to keep its 4G LTE dream alive
The startup that won't give up recently filed a new
proposal to the FCC to revive its plan for building a
nationwide 4G LTE network to compete with AT&T and
Verizon Wireless.
by Marguerite Reardon October 2, 2012 2:45 PM PDT
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57524779-94/lightsquared-tries-to-keep-its-4g-lte-dream-alive/
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