Communications Stories for 2012

EFnet Paralyzed By Vulnerability 156
The Future of 802.11ac 125
Pirate Radio Station In Florida Jams Automotive Electronics 315
China Tightens Internet Restrictions 83
The Trials and Tribulations of a Would-Be Facebook Employee 241
Net Neutrality Bill Aimed At ISP Data Caps Introduced In US Senate 151
Facebook Test Will Let You Message Strangers For $1 325
VPN Providers Say China Blocks Encryption Using Machine Learning Algorithms 111
Chilling Guidelines Issued For UK Communications Act Enforcement 111
ISP Data Caps Just a 'Cash Cow' 353
DARPA Begins Work On 100Gbps Wireless Tech With 120-mile Range 83
Researchers Convert Phones Into Secret Listening Devices 59
WW2 Pigeon Code Decrypted By Canadian? 158
Researchers Develop an Internet Truth Machine 87
Cox Comm. Injects Code Into Web Traffic To Announce Email Outage 271
The State of In-Flight Wi-Fi 80
Hotmail & Yahoo Mail Using Secret Domain Blacklist 345
ITU To Choose Emergency Line For Mobiles: 911, or 112? 354
Text Message Spammer Wants FCC To Declare Spam Filters Illegal 338
Netflix Ranks ISP Speeds 186
Ask Slashdot: Current State of Linux Email Clients? 464
Cops To Congress: We Need Logs of Americans' Text Messages 342
Least-Cost Routing Threatens Rural Phone Call Completion 205
How Syria's Rebels Communicate In the Face of Internet Shutdown 80
Happy (Early) Bday! :) SMS Txt Msgs Turn 20 54
Syrian Malware Servers Survive, Then Die 23
Ask Slashdot: What Web Platform For a Small Municipality? 161
Syria Drops Off the Internet Grid 156
Legislators Call On Twitter To Ban Hamas 486
Nexus 4 Includes Support For LTE 83
The Internet Has Transformed Modern Divorce 277
Companies Getting Rid of Reply-all 248
Pakistan To Cut Phone Services To Prevent Muharram Attacks 119
That Was Fast: Leahy Drops Warrantless E-mail Surveillance Bill 107
Senate Bill Rewrite Lets Feds Read Your E-mail Without Warrants 403
Website Calls Out Authors of Racist Anti-Obama Posts 423
USPS Reports $15.9 Billion Loss, Asks Congress For Help 473
Battery-Powered Transmitter Could Crash A City's 4G Network 121
RIM Offering Free Voice Calling In Attempt to Remain Competitive 134
Skype Disables Password Resets After Huge Security Hole Discovered 65
French Company Building a Mobile Internet Just For Things 35
Petraeus Case Illustrates FBI Authority To Read Email 228
UW Imposes 20-Tweet Limit On Live Events 196
Staff Emails Are Not Owned By Firms, UK Judge Rules 111
NASA Fires Up Experimental Space Internet For Robot Control 42
AT&T To Pay $700,000 For Overcharging Consumers 74
Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Way To Become a Rural ISP? 239
Microsoft Retiring Messenger, Replacing It With Skype 213
Google Doubts Apple Will Approve Its New Maps Application 347
Is It Time To Commit To Ongoing Payphone Availability? 267
MIT Research Tweaks Smartphone Amplifier Voltage To Gain Battery Life 47
iPhone Interface For Ham Radio Mates Old With New 51
VR Tech Lets People Interact With Rats 33
WW2 Carrier Pigeon and Undecoded Message Found In Chimney 287
To Mollify Google on Moto Patents, Apple Proposes $1/Device Fee 582
FTC Whacks "Rachel From Card Holder Services" 289
Apple To Stream a Product Launch Live For the First Time 288
Japan Getting Real-Time Phone Call Translator App 113
DARPA Funds a $300 Software-Defined Radio For Hackers 94
Judge Rules Defense Can Use Trayvon Martin Tweets 848
AOL's New Alto Client Is Visual Email, and You Don't Need a New Address 108
Former Australian Cop Wants Jail For Internet Trolls 254
Uber Gives Up On New York Taxi Service 180
Freeside Internet Services: Doing Well With Purely Free Software (Video) 53
Japan's Softbank Buying Sprint, Creating Third-Largest Global Carrier 59
S. Carolina Supreme Court: Leaving Email In the Cloud Isn't Electronic Storage 112
Interviews: Ask Free Software Legal Giant Eben Moglen 56
Saudi Arabia Calls For Global Internet Censorship Body 678
Apple Maps Accidentally Reveals Secret Military Base In Taiwan 131
Is Mobile Broadband a Luxury Or a Human Right? 332
Phil Zimmermann's New App Protects Smartphones From Prying Ears 121
Ask Slashdot: Open Communications Set-Up For Small Office? 224
Iran Lifts Block On Gmail 46
ForestWatchers Lets Anyone Monitor A Patch of Forest 41
LightSquared Wants To Share Weather-Balloon Frequencies for LTE 141
Indian Minister Says Telecom Companies Should Only Charge For Data 177
The Day Leo Traynor Confronted His Troll 594
The Text Message Typo That Landed a Man In Jail 547
WhatsApp Threatens Developers of PC Gateway With Legal Action 27
Flatlining User Base May Spell End of RIM 180
Iran Set To Block Access To Google 279
Presentation Scales In Massive Online Courses; Does Interaction? 63
NTT and Partners Show 1 Petabit/Sec Transfer Over 50km of Fiber 59
New Twitter Policies Put the Kibosh On Mashup Services 82
A $20 Software Defined Radio For GNU Radio 53
AT&T Facing Net Neutrality Complaint Over FaceTime Restrictions 95
Quantum Key Exchange With an Airplane 44
YouTube Refuses To Remove Anti-Islamic Film Clip 622
Twitter Hands Over Messages At Heart of Occupy Case 73
Ask Slashdot: What Tech For a Sailing Ship? 340
Intel Encodes Data In Flickering LEDs (and Shows Off Other Bright Ideas) 65
NYC Taxi Commission Nixes Cab-Hailing Apps 264
AT&T Promises To Expand LTE To More US Markets 105
Quantum Teleportation Sends Information 143 Kilometers 333
Leave Your Cellphone At Home, Says Jacob Appelbaum 306
Business Tier For Australia's NBN Brings Big Possibilities For VoIP 70
Birthplace of Indoeuropean Languages Found 195
Are App.net's Crowdfunders Being Taken For a Ride? 95
DARPA's 'Phoenix' Program To Bring Satellites Back From the Dead 88
Japan Considers '911' Calls From Twitter, Social Networks 116
Wave Glider Robot Helps Forecast Hurricane Isaac's Path 35
Google Launches Hurricane Isaac Site 43
Russia's Former KGB Invests In Political Propaganda Spambots 164
New Flat Lens Focuses Without Distortion 202
App Can Prevent Users From Texting While Driving 144
Satellite Uplinks For the Masses 49
Why Cell Phone Bans Don't Work 335
Indian Gov't Bans Bulk SMS, Investigating Social Media 101
iPhone Bug Allows SMS Spoofing 92
Use Google's Nexus 7 Tablet As a VoIP Phone, For Free 91
Ask Slashdot: A Cheap US Cellphone Plan With an Unlocked Phone? 288
Malaysia Stages Internet Blackout To Protest New Censorship Law 76
Korean Artist's Intentionally Useless Satellite To Launch This December 151
Alternative To QR Code Uses NFC and Cheap Rectennas 164
Researchers Develop Algorithm To Trace Malware, Epidemics, More 47
Curiosity Transmits First 360-Degree Panorama From Mars 108
US Gov't Can't Be Sued For Warrantless Wiretapping 221
Nuance Launches Siri Rival "Nina" 87
DARPA Creates 0.85 THz Solid State Receiver 84
AT&T Killing Its 2G Network By 2017 102
'Wi-Fi Police' Stalk Olympic Games 268
Mitt Romney To Announce VP Decision Via Smartphone App 461
Microsoft Unveils Outlook.com, Hotmail's Successor 368
Apple Reportedly Considering Huge Investment In Twitter 90
Microsoft Makes Skype Easier To Monitor 150
Google Scrambles To Restore Google Talk From Outage 85
Cyber Attacks On Activists Traced To Gamma Group's FinFisher Spyware 54
Correcting the Record: the Government's Role In the Internet 257
Microsoft Won't Say If Skype Is Secure Or Not. Time To Change? 237
If You Lived In Riga, You Wouldn't Bother To Cut the Cord 195
FCC Tariff Changes Mean No More Free Conference Calls 76
Why You Shouldn't Write Off Google+ Just Yet 286
Ask Slashdot: Resources For Identifying Telecom Right-of-Way Locations? 107
How NY Gov. Cuomo Sidesteps Freedom of Information Requests With His Blackberry 306
The Hivemind Singularity 277
O2's UK Network Crash Hits Offender Monitoring System 56
Windows 8 Mail Leaves Users Pining For the Desktop — or Even Their Phones 308
City's IT Infrastructure Brought To Its Knees By Data Center Outage 102
New York Experiments With Wi-Fi From Payphones 56
Gloves Translate Sign Language Into Auditory Speech 78
FTC To Revisit Robocall Menace 167
Executive Order Grants US Gov't New Powers Over Communication Systems 513
Anonymous Lists Sites. and VoIP Services, Blocked In the UAE 42
Social Networks, Suicide and Statistics 66
Software-Defined Radio: the Apple I of Broadcast? 153
Feds Plan 'Fog of Disinformation' To Track Information Leaks 263
Ask Slashdot: Are Smart Meters Safe? 684
Facebook Testing the Want Button 147
France Ending Minitel Service 137
Facebook Says Your Email Is @Facebook 346
A Look At the "Information Superhighway," As It Looked In 1985 241
RIM Considers Spinning Off Handset Business From Messaging 87
Ethiopian Government Denies Banning Skype 42
Wikipedia As a "War Zone," Rather Than a Collaboration 194
Google Launches Endangered Languages Project 194
Proposed UK Communications Law Could Be Used To Spy On Physical Mail 125
Phil Zimmermann's New Venture Will Offer Strong Privacy By Subscription 219
FCC Revisiting Mobile Device Radiation Standards 80
Ethiopia Criminalizes VoIP Services 255
Skype 4.0 For Linux Now Available 196
Time Inc. Signs Magazine Deal With Apple 83
Skype To Feature Giant Ads 178
'Inventor of Email' Gets Support of Noam Chomsky 288
FBI Hunt For Child Porn Thwarted By Tor 714
Meebo Discontinuing All Services Except for Meebo Bar 121
No Tech Panacea For Tech-Distracted Driving 257
CryptoCat Developer Questioned At US-Canadian Border 271
Australian Company Promises Switching Hardware With Sub-130ns Latency 77
No Intelligent Aliens Detected In Gliese 581 239
New Rules Bring a "Credit Rating" For Users of Chinese Social Network 89
SSID As the New Community Bulletin Board and Yard Sign 165
Ask Slashdot: Equipping a Company With Secure Android Phones? 229
Backdoor Found In Hacked Version of Anti-Censorship Tool Simurgh 32
Ask Candidate Jeremy Hansen About Direct Democracy in Vermont 245
Sprint To Shut Down Nextel iDEN Network Next Year 53
What Would a Post-Email World Look Like? 314
Van Jacobson Denies Averting Internet Meltdown In 1980s 57
Texter Not Responsible For Textee's Car Accident, Rules Judge 200
Florida VoIP Provider Files Net Neutrality Complaint With FCC 70
Pakistan Blocks Twitter Over 'Blasphemous' Images 226
Quantifying the Risk of Texting Drivers 217
China Approves Google Motorola Mobility Merger 78
Online Loneliness At Google+ 456
Ask Slashdot: Skype Setup For Toddler's Room? 302
Researcher Runs IP Network Over Xylophones 83
Facebook Is Killing Text Messaging 270
American Cellular Companies Clamor For Fresh Spectrum 103
Senator Seeks More Info On DOJ Location Tracking Practices 35
Netherlands Cements Net Neutrality In Law 115
Complaint Challenges Univ. of Hawaii Email Partnership Wth Google 172
Heathkit Educational Systems Closes Shop For Good 129
Iran's Web Censorship Filters Supreme Leader's Own Statement 66
More Plans For UK Internet Snooping Bill Revealed In Queen's Speech 114
Government Asks When It Can Shut Down Wireless Communications 267
20 Years of GSM and SMS 157
Facebook Says It's Filtering Comments For Spam, Not Censoring Them 155
Researchers Create Life-sized 3D Hologram For Videoconferencing 60
Researchers Push Implanted User Interfaces 84
FBI: We Need Wiretap-Ready Web Sites — Now 377
Syrian Government Uses Skype To Push Malware To Activists 139
BART Defends Mobile Service Shutdown 149
Hacked Skype IP Address Search Shows Who's Speaking From Where 84
German Authorities Find Al Qaeda Plans Disguised In Porn 332
Telcos Oppose Bill To Respect 4th Amendment 190
Skype Finally Arrives On Microsoft Phones 151
Ask Slashdot: How Can I Get Through To a Politician By E-mail? 204
FBI Seizes Server Providing Anonymous Remailer Service 355
UT Dallas Professor Captures the Mobile Interactions of 175 Texas Teens 146
Happy World Amateur Radio Day 82
Iraq Emerges From Isolation As Telecommunications Hub 59
VA Court To Review "Official" Email Rules 102
When Big Brother Watches IT 234
Canada: Police Do Not Have Power To Wiretap Without Warrant 133
How the Sinking of the Titanic Sparked a Century of Radio Improvements 99
Giant Touchscreens Coming To NYC Phone Booths 124
AT&T To Unlock Out-of-Contract iPhones 146
New CISPA Cybersecurity Bill Even Worse Than SOPA 234
Competition To Identify Sexual Predators In Chat Logs 273
Swedish Researchers Expose China's Tor-Blocking Tricks 73
Ask Slashdot: Why Aren't Schools Connected? 568
Mobile Operators: Creating Artificial Demand For Capacity? 268
Software-Defined Radio For $11 171
Smartphones Invade the Prepaid Market 173
Swedish Teleco Firms Looking Into Block VoIP Claiming Losses In Earnings 151
Apple May Need To Rethink 4G Claims (and Pay Refunds) In More Countries 105
Student Expelled From Indiana High School For Tweeting Profanity 349
UK Man Jailed For 'Offensive Tweets' 922
What Does Google Get Out of Voice? 119
Your Privacy Is a Sci-Fi Fantasy 195
Chinese Firm Helps Iran Spy On Citizens 98
T-Mobile's Optional Censorship Falls Down 67
US Mobile Carriers Won't Brick Stolen Phones 269
AT&T Charged US Taxpayers $16 Million For Nigerian Fraud Calls 155
Business Cards the Latest Internet Casualty 243
LightSquared Satellite Disabled By Last Week's Solar Storm 70
Have Online Comment Sections Become Specious? 429
MIME Attachments Are 20 Years Old Today 82
The Numbers of a Life 98
Cell Phone Jamming Devices Enjoy an Increase In Popularity 805
World's Tallest Free-Standing Broadcast Tower Completed 65
FCC Inquires Into Its Own Authority To Regulate Communication Service Shutdowns 112
Facebook Tests 'Safe' User Tag For Disasters 62
Siri To Power Mercedes-Benz Car Systems 193
Ship Anchor Damages African Undersea Cables 104
Australia's Telstra Requires Fibre Customers To Use Copper Telephone 217
4 UK Urban Explorers Face Orders Not To Talk With Each Other For 10 Years 387
Fraunhofer IIS Demos Full-HD Voice Over LTE On Android 99
Push Email Suspended On iPhones In Germany 164
Pakistan Looking For Homegrown URL Blocking System 97
MIT Lecturer Defends His Standing As Email Inventor 249

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