---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20180211173100.GA19515@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 12:31:00 -0500 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: AT&T Completes FiberTower Acquisition, Adds 'Significant' 39 GHz Spectrum AT&T on Friday announced the closing of its $207 million acquisition of FiberTower Corp., along with its millimeter wave spectrum holdings. Company officials said the transaction would give AT&T "a significant footprint in the 39 GHz band, with average holdings of more than 375 MHz in the top 100 markets." https://www.wirelessweek.com/news/2018/02/t-completes-fibertower-acquisition-adds-significant-39-ghz-spectrum -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <319039EB-B94E-4632-A572-19D50D92DAF2@roscom.com> Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2018 10:30:14 -0500 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: How a Low-Level Apple Employee Leaked Some of the iPhone's Most Sensitive Code How a Low-Level Apple Employee Leaked Some of the iPhone's Most Sensitive Code This is how a small group of friends lost control of the leaked iBoot source code. The story behind one of Apple's most embarrassing leaks. On Wednesday, an anonymous person published the proprietary source code of a core and fundamental component of the iPhone's operating system. A user named "ZioShiba" posted the closed source code for iBoot - the part of iOS responsible for ensuring a trusted boot of the operating system - to GitHub, the internet's largest repository of open source code. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xw5yd7/how-iphone-iboot-source-code-leaked-on-github ------------------------------ Message-ID: <09BBC881-B47C-4B63-B34A-0A93206AF552@roscom.com> Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2018 19:27:05 -0500 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Why You Get Hooked on Candy Crush and Snapchat Why You Get Hooked on Candy Crush and Snapchat By Alex Webb The perils of smartphone addiction came into sharper focus when a group of investors demanded that Apple Inc. address what the iPhone's success might mean "to the health and development of the next generation." The compulsion to use a smartphone continuously is often driven by the apps that it powers. That's no accident. Social-media companies, mobile gaming studios and others employ armies of psychologists to help them engineer products that ensure users stay hooked, or return again and again. Here are some of the techniques they deploy. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-09/why-it-s-hard-to-kick-candy-crush-stop-snapchatting-quicktake ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Mon, 12 Feb 2018