---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <ninuk1$koa$1@dont-email.me> Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2016 20:28:51 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: The Verizon Strike Proves the Internet Still Needs Humans by Klint Finley NEARLY 40,000 VERIZON workers are heading back to work tomorrow after a six-and-half-week strike. Last week Verizon reached a tentative agreement with the Communications Workers of America and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers to end a strike that began April 13th. The new contract still needs to be voted on by union members, but workers agreed to return to work. Once the contract is ratified, Verizon plans to hire another 1,400 union workers. http://www.wired.com/2016/05/verizon-strike-proves-internet-still-needs-humans/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <0136DF23-9F7D-4444-916A-1FB678FE2F77@roscom.com> Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2016 02:42:37 -0400 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Rise of Ad-Blocking Software Threatens Online Revenue http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/31/business/international/smartphone-ad-blocki ng-software-mobile.html A report suggests that one in five smartphone users worldwide deploys software to remove ads when he or she browses the web. ------------------------------ Message-ID: <ninv0d$m4j$1@dont-email.me> Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2016 20:35:26 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: As Verizon Strikers Return, Focus Returns to Wireless As striking workers for Verizon (VZ) return to their posts today, shareholders of the telecom giant hope the erosion in FiOS broadband and video subscriptions -- as well as to earnings -- during the standoff will stop. If the carrier comes to peace with its workforce after the more than six-week strike, Verizon can turn its attention back to its rivals in the wireless industry. Under a tentative pact with the Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers announced on Monday, Verizon agreed to boost wages by 10.5% over the four-year agreement, hire 1,400 more workers and increase pensions, among other concessions. In return, the telecom could change its healthcare plans to reduce costs and gain flexibility in offering worker buyouts. https://www.thestreet.com/story/13590991/1/as-verizon-strikers-return-to-work-wednesday-focus-returns-to-wireless.html -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.1605312330410.10829@panix5.panix.com> Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 23:31:21 -0400 From: danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> Subject: 4th Circuit: Cops don't need warrants for cellco location info [Josephats] U.S. court says no warrant needed for cellphone location data Police do not need a warrant to obtain a person's cellphone location data held by wireless carriers, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Tuesday, dealing a setback to privacy advocates. The full 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, voted 12-3 that the government can get the information under a decades-old legal theory that it had already been disclosed to a third party, in this case a telephone company. .... Writing for the majority, Judge Diana Motz said obtaining cell-site information did not violate the protection against unreasonable searches found in the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution because cellphone users are generally aware that they are voluntarily sharing such data with their provider. ======== rest: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-mobilephones-idUSKCN0YM2CZ _____________________________________________________ Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key dannyb@panix.com [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded] ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Thu, 02 Jun 2016