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Newscan: Texting 911? It helped these kids with their suspected drunk-driving dad

Newscan: Texting 911? It helped these kids with their suspected drunk-driving dad

  • Written by Donny Jackson
  • 21st April 2016

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Texting 911? It helped these kids with their suspected drunk-driving dad

Older cell towers may buckle under the weight of new 600 MHz equipment

Public advocate: FBI’s use of PRISM surveillance data is unconstitutional, but court disagrees

FCC to examine mobile network’s security

U.S. carriers mum on 60 Minutes report about vulnerability in SS7

Tech panel chairman: People ‘astonished’ over mobile vulnerabilities

Dem wants Congress to investigate mobile network security

Dispatcher talks about challenges of juggling 6-7 tasks simultaneously

U.S. and Russia meet on cybersecurity

Intel to slash 12,000 jobs as it moves away from PCs

Analysts expect incentive auction to generate between $32.8 billion and $43.8 billion

Drones eyed as first responders

Lawful hacking: Should, or can, the FBI learn to overcome encryption itself?

What do women want at hackathons? NASA has a list

A brief history of U.S. encryption policy

Burr-Feinstein antiencryption bill a firing offense

If net-neutrality advocates only knew how Tim Wu originally defined ‘net neutrality’

Why Google is warning that ‘google.com’ is ‘partially dangerous’

Why companies are still falling victim to an eight-year-old computer virus

Sprint backs FCC’s special-access proposal

No phones for you! Chic businesses are abandoning landlines

Smartphones could transform our response to the homeless

 

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FCC Commissioner Clyburn’s speech on telehealth

FCC Chairman Wheeler’s blog: Out with the old, in with the new

Freewave partners with Baud Telecom, rolls out WavePro installation with Saudi electricity company

Westell Technologies: Public-safety communications and the need for DAS

Information Assurance Specialists products placed on NSA component list

 

 

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