Do not trust your caller ID

Who’s on the Line? Increasingly, Caller ID Is Duped - NYTimes.com: "Telemarketers increasingly are disguising their real identities and phone numbers to provoke people to pick up the phone. “Humane Soc.” may not be the Humane Society. And think the I.R.S. is on the line? Think again. Caller ID, in other words, is becoming fake ID. “You don’t know who is on the other end of the line, no matter what your caller ID might say,” said Sandy Chalmers, a division manager at the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection in Wisconsin. Starting this summer, she said, the state has been warning consumers: “Do not trust your caller ID. And if you pick up the phone and someone asks for your personal information, hang up.”"

www.expri.com: "China overtook the US as the world's largest smartphone market by volume in the third quarter, according to a report by research firm Strategy Analytics.
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GigaOm
NSN said its future is in delivering mobile broa
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BBC News
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HTC losing dominance in LTE phone market: Citigroup
Focus Taiwan News Channel
4 smartphone maker, is losing the grip of its leadership in long-term evolution (LTE) technology to rival Samsung Electronics Co. of South Korea, according to Citigroup. In a research note dated Nov. 21, the US bank compared the specifications between ...
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eWEEK Europe UK
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Juniper Research: 6% of the global subscriber population will use LTE by 2016
MobileSyrup.com
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thinkbroadband.com
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Research and Markets: UK to Attain 8 Million LTE Subscriptions by 2015 Reveals ...
Business Wire (press release)
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TmoNews
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MarketWatch (press release)
"The acquisition of Wavion will enable us to address the market for carrier-grade WiFi, one of the fastest growing segments of telecom equipment, with advanced technology designed specifically to serve the most demanding applications of both public and ...
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LAPTOP Magazine
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NEXT
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ComputerworldUK
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MarketWatch (press release)
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Lenovo Offers First Android Tablet with Multi-Carrier Mobile Broadband ...
MarketWatch (press release)
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FutureGov Magazine
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China Mobile steps up TD-LTE development
TeleGeography
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Globes
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Mobile bloom News
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Liverpool Daily Post
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The Australian
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Daily Post North Wales
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FierceTelecom
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ViaSat UK unveils business satellite broadband service
V3.co.uk
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iPhone 4S runs into Wi-Fi issues?
Ubergizmo
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Mobile bloom News
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Telstra 4G Smartphones Coming Soon
SmartHouse
By David Richards | Wednesday | 23/11/2011 Telstra aims to have its first high-speedLTE 4G mobile handsets and tablet computers on the market before the end of March next year. They will include an HTC handset, and follows follow last September's ...
Deal in Progress Would Make Broadband Available County-Wide
WHMI
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Why is Apple's iPhone 4S fast losing luster?
Korea Times
By Kim Yoo-chul The iPhone frenzy in Korea may be fading as consumers reject Apple's iPhone 4S for hardware-related problems and opting for handsets that support Long Term Evolution (LTE). SK Telecom and KT, the local authorized sellers of the Apple ...
Galaxy Tab 8.9 with 4G LTE available now from AT&T, gets torn ...
By Cory Gunther
In case anyone missed it AT&T is now offering the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 with 4G LTE -- and it's available right now. It was officially announced last week and.
Android Community
LG holding exclusive launch event, AT&T LTE device on the way ...
By Anthony Domanico
The folks at Engadget have received an invitation to an “exclusive launch event” being put on by LG Mobile that will take place on December 1st. Though LG went to great lengths to hide any indication of the device in the image itself, they left ...
Android and Me
iOS 5 Causing Some Users To Lose WiFi Connectivity
By Ahmed Omar
Since iOS 5 was released, users have been struggling its frustrating bugs and issues, the most prominent of which is the quick battery drainage. Though the iPhone 4S is packed with a lot of impressive features, users fail to enjoy.
CydiaHelp
iMac wifi problem
By tom09
I've been experiencing a weird problem with my iMac (2010 quadcore), the wifi has been very shifty. Sometimes it cannot find my internet network or.
MacTalk
Research and Markets: UK to Attain 8 Million LTE Subscriptions by ...
DUBLIN--( BUSINESS WIRE )-- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/dedcb9/lte_insights_servi) has announced the addition of the "LTE Insights Service - LTE in the UK: Deployment Plans, Operator Strategies ...
Enterprise Communications and...
The best way to Get the Mobile Broadband Poll | arizonaflightworks ...
By Mark Hole
Every single month or two in the UK YouGov operate a opinion poll for the greatest mobile broadbandsupplier. The most recent one particular figured 3 currently supplies the best special broadbandprogram around, beating nearest ...
arizonaflightworks.com
Comment on the recent Wi-Fi free Wednesday post. | EMFacts ...
By EMFacts
Hi Don my name is Jim Owen I am the Head of IT for Enable Housing Association (www.enable-group.org.uk) and I have actively refused to allow any of my systems to use Wifi technology anywhere within our homes or properties for the last ...
EMFacts Consultancy
Cyfrowy Polsat ups LTE reach | Broadband TV News
By Chris Dziadul
Cyfrowy Polsat was the first company to offer LTE-based internet services commercially in Poland, introducing its offer, giving download and upload speeds of up to 100 Mbps and 50 Mbps respectively, in August this year. Cyfrowy Polsat's ...
Broadband TV News
K850 Quad Band Twin SIM Television WIFI Cell Mobile phone with ...
By thenewb
The K850 Quad Band Dual SIM Tv WIFI Cell Cellular phone seems to be a small like an Apple, but it truly is not really there. It's a bar mobile phone, which is wonderful, for the reason that flip and slide phones are likely to put on with time. ...
FC Safe Kids
FCC Says Broadband Expansion Will Add Jobs - Sara Jerome ...
The Federal Communications Commission says its plan to bring broadband Internet to the countryside will produce 500000 jobs over the next six years.
www.nationaljournal.com/.../fcc-says-broadband-expansion-w...
How Google–and everyone else–gets Wi-Fi location data | ZDNet
Google doesn't use StreetView cars to pick up Wi-Fi location data any more. They use your smartphones and tablets instead.
www.zdnet.com/blog/networking/how-google...fi.../1664
T-Mobile Launches 4G HSPA+ in Eleven More Markets - HSPA+ 42 ...
News: T-Mobile Launches 4G HSPA+ in Eleven More Markets - HSPA+ 42 Now Covers 163 Markets Nationwide.
www.dslreports.com/.../TMobile-Launches-4G-HSPA-in-Eleve...
Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 LTE tablet available now from AT&T
The LTE version of the Galaxy Tab 8.9 by Samsung is now available to AT&T customers. Both online and in stores, the tablet is available for $479.99, with a two ...
www.mobileburn.com/.../samsung-galaxy-tab-89-lte-tablet-av...

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