Wireless Networking Stories for 2016

GM Partners With Boston Startup WiTricity To Develop Wireless Charging Technology 61
Netgear Releases 'Beta' Patches For Additional Routers Found With Root Vulnerability 26
Apple Will Charge You $69 To Replace a Lost AirPod 253
Super Mario Run Is Now Available 70
UK 4G Coverage Worse Than In Romania and Peru, Watchdog Finds 83
Vulnerability Prompts Warning: Stop Using Netgear WiFi Routers 147
US Think Tank Wants To Regulate The Design of IoT Devices For Security Purposes 87
AirPods Delay Attributed To Apple Ensuring Both Earpieces Receive Audio At Same Time 189
Samsung May Permanently Disable Galaxy Note 7 Phones In The US As Soon As Next Week 193
Transportation Department Proposes Allowing In-Flight Phone Calls 103
Microsoft Wants To Enable Cellular PCs, But Will Carriers Bite? 145
Bluetooth 5 Is Here 114
T-Mobile CFO: Less Regulation, Repeal of Net Neutrality By Trump Would Be 'Positive For My Industry' 158
Millions In US Still Living Life In Internet Slow Lane 209
Hacker Explains How He Hacked Into Tel Aviv's Public Wi-Fi Network In Three Days 45
Facebook's Latest Experiment: Helping You Find Free Wi-Fi Hotspots 32
Comcast Takes $70 Gigabit Offer Away From Cities Near Chicago 79
Smartphone WiFi Signals Can Leak Your Keystrokes, Passwords, and PINs 46
HTC Vive Goes Wireless 29
Google Safe Browsing Adds 'Repeat Offender' Category 18
Samsung Is Cutting the Note 7's Access To Mobile Networks In New Zealand 63
Man Who Named His Wi-Fi SSID 'Daesh 21' Prosecuted Under French Anti-Terror Law 247
The AT&T-Time Warner Merger Must Be Stopped 139
Foxconn Testing Wireless Charging For iPhone 8 81
AT&T Falsely Claimed Pro-Google Fiber Rule Is Invalid, FCC Says 22
New Attack Can Seize Control of Drones 40
Apple Delays AirPods Beyond Original 'Late October' Window 77
Google Fiber Pauses Operations, CEO Leaves, and About 9 Percent of Staff Is Being Let Go 204
Wi-Fi Alliance Begins Certification Process For Short-Range Wireless Standard WiGig (802.11ad) 69
New York Times Buys The Wirecutter For $30 Million 40
Russians Seek Answers To Central Moscow GPS Anomaly 176
WikiLeaks To Its Supporters: 'Stop Taking Down the US Internet, You Proved Your Point' 338
AT&T Considers Buying Time Warner 60
iPhone 7 Plus Qualcomm LTE Modem Significantly Outperforms Intel LTE Modem, Study Finds 44
WikiLeaks: Ecuador Cut Off Assange's Internet Access 315
California City Converts Its Street Lights Into A High-Speed IoT Backbone 61
DHS Warns of Mirai Botnet Threat To Cellular Modems 21
Yahoo Patents Smart Billboard That Would Deliver Targeted Ads To Passersby or Motorists 131
Netflix Now Only Has 31 Movies From IMDB's Top 250 List 181
Google Hires Joke Writers From Pixar and The Onion To Make Assistant More Personable 38
AT&T Considers Stopping All Samsung Note 7 Sales 54
Google Fiber Is Now a Fiber and Wireless ISP 21
Sandpoint Town Square Home To First Public Solar Roadways Panel Installation 163
FCC Votes To Upgrade Emergency Smartphone Alerts 103
Verizon Technician Is Accused of Selling Customers' Call Records and Location Data To Private Investigator 50
HP To Issue 'Optional Firmware Update' Allowing 3rd-Party Ink 81
DJI Unveils the Mavic Pro, a Foldable and Ultra-Portable Camera Drone 55
FCC Official Asks Agency To Investigate Ban On Journalists' Wi-Fi Personal Hotspots At Debate 176
Google To Introduce Google Wifi, Google Home and 4K Chromecast Ultra Devices On October 4th 51
Comcast Will Launch a Wireless Service Next Year 50
Woman Faces $9,100 Verizon Bill For Data She Says She Didn't Use 209
Google-Funded Free Wi-Fi Kiosks Are Scrapping Web Browsing Because Too Many People Were Using it For Porn 140
Why Sys-Admins Are Disabling The Lights on WiFi Access Points 294
Amazon Launches Updated Fire HD 8 Tablet Now With Alexa Voice Services 61
Apple Cites 'Courage' As Reason To Remove 3.5mm Headphone Jack 761
Apple To Unveil 'AirPods' That Use Custom Bluetooth Chip 274
New Snowden Leaks Reveal More About NSA Satellite Eavesdropping 100
Verizon Now Offers 'Unlimited' Data On All Plans, Without $5 Fee 36
HP Builds One Desktop PC Around a Speaker, Another Modular PC In Slices 78
Samsung Unveils Gear S3 Classic and Frontier Smartwatches Powered By Tizen 27
Italy Quake Rescuers Ask Locals To Unlock Their Wi-Fi 140
Canon Unveils EOS 5D Mark IV DSLR 160
MIT Scientists Develop New Wi-Fi That's 330% Faster 86
BHU's 'Tiger Will Power' Wi-Fi Router May Be The Most Insecure Router Ever Made 62
AT&T Says LTE Can Still Offer Speeds Up To 1 Gbps 51
Comcast Rolls Out $70-Per-Month Gigabit Internet Service In Chicago 93
'Smart' Electrical Socket Leaks Your Email Address, Can Launch DDoS Attacks 82
AT&T Is Boosting Data Plans, Dropping Overage Fees 71
Intel Unveils Project Alloy 'Merged Reality' Wireless Headset 43
Google Fiber Is Changing Its Strategy as Costs Grow 160
A New Wireless Hack Can Unlock Almost Every Volkswagen Sold Since 1995 115
Samsung Pay Hack Lets Attackers Make Fraudulent Payments 16
Myths Persist About Running Public Wi-Fi in the UK 20
BBC To Deploy Detection Vans To Snoop On Internet Users 212
Popular BitTorrent Search Engine Site Torrentz.eu Mysteriously Disappears 118
Pennsylvania To Apply 6% 'Netflix Tax' 271
Google Wi-Fi Kiosks in New York Promise No Privacy, 'Can Collect Anything' 71
Subscribers Pay 61 Cents Per Hour of Cable, But Only 20 Cents Per Hour of Netflix 174
Avast Suckers GOP Delegates Into Connecting To Insecure Wi-Fi Hotspots 109
Verizon To Disconnect Unlimited Data Customers Who Use Over 100GB/Month 422
How The Internet Helps Sex Workers Keep Customers Honest 147
WikiLeaks Releases 300K Turkey Government Emails In Response To Erdogan's Post-Coup Purges 231
Facebook Pitches Laser Beams As The High-Speed Internet Of The Future 93
Amazon Patents Way To Turn Lampposts, Church Steeples Into Drone Perches 87
Netflix Stock Price Tanks As Customers Quit Over Higher Prices 460
Hacking Group 'OurMine' Claims Credit For Attack On Pokemon Go Servers 48
White House Pledges $400M To Back Speedier 5G Wireless Networks 86
VPN Provider Removes Russian Presence After Servers Seized 89
Vulnerability Exploitable Via Printer Protocols Affects All Windows Versions 78
NBC Universal Patents a Way To Detect BitTorrent Pirates In Real-Time 104
Warner Bros. Settles FTC Charge For Not Disclosing Payments To YouTubers For Positive Reviews 81
Netflix Is The Least-Cancelled of All Major Streaming Services, Says Study 72
YouTube Looking To Launch Online TV Service Next Year With ESPN, ABC, and CBS 24
Putin Gives Federal Security Agents Two Weeks To Produce 'Encryption Keys' For The Internet 296
FBI Director: Guccifer Admitted He Lied About Hacking Hillary Clinton's Email 289
And the Lord Said, 'Let There Be Free Wi-Fi' 70
UK Police Accessed Civilian Data For Fun and Profit, Says Report 71
73% of Subscribers Would Download Netflix Content, Says Survey 94
Google Cast Is Now Baked Into Chrome, No Extension Needed 93
Amazon's Alexa Virtual Assistant Can Now Order Millions of Prime Products For You 57
Netherlands Gets First Nationwide 'Internet of Things' 67
DMCA Notices Remove 8,268 Projects On Github In 2015 116
FCC Says TV Airwaves Being Sold For Wireless Use Are Worth $86.4 Billion 72
Wi-Fi Gets Multi-Gigabit, Multi-User Boost With Upgrades To 802.11ac 74
Apple Patents a Way To Keep People From Filming At Concerts and Movie Theaters 266
Rolls-Royce Eyes Autonomous Ships, Expects Remote-Controlled Cargo Ships By 2020 147
Google Launches 'Project Bloks' Toys To Teach Kids To Code 54
Internet Trolls Hack Popular YouTube Channel WatchMojo 32
Google Fiber To Acquire Gigabit Internet Provider Webpass 59
Microsoft Launches NFC Payments For Windows 10 Phones 76
Google To Offer Better Medical Advice When You Search Your Symptoms 104
Twitter Pays $150 Million For Magic Pony Technology 47
FCC To Vote On Spectrum For 5G Wireless Networks 38
Olli is a 3D Printed, IBM Watson-Powered, Self-Driving Minibus 50
Like Comcast, Google Fiber Now Forces Customers Into Arbitration 89
Twitter, Facebook and Google Sued For Facilitating Paris Attacks 156
Google Accused of Stealing Balloon Network Tech Behind Project Loon 58
'Spam King' Sanford Wallace Sentenced To 2.5 Years In Prison For Facebook Phishing Scam 56
Rhapsody Rebrands Itself As Napster 42
Scientists Amplify Light Using Sound On a Silicon Chip 21
Bluetooth 5 With 2x More Range and 4x Better Speed Coming Next Week 94
A Solution To the Security Guidelines Proposed By FCC For Home Routers 55
Russian Hacker Selling Information of 32 Million Twitter Accounts, Report Says 54
Qualcomm's Connected Car Reference Platform To Connect Smart Cars To Everything 110
EU Exploring Idea of Using Government ID Cards As Mandatory Online Logins 367
Ted Cruz Proposes Bill To Keep US From Giving Up Internet Governance Role 280
FTC Has Serious Concerns About IoT Security and Privacy 41
Olympic Athletes To Sport Visa's New Payment Ring In Rio 129
Google's Self-Driving Cars Now Know When To Honk 156
Samsung Unveils Gear Fit 2 Activity Tracker and IconX Wireless Earbuds 25
How The FAA Shot Down 'Uber For Planes' 216
Report: Average American Will Use 22GB of Mobile Data Per Month In 2021 104
TeamViewer Servers Go Down, Users Believe They Are Hacked 124
Atari Is Going To Build IoT Devices 84
Ubuntu Phones To Feature Wireless Display Support With OTA-11 Update 31
Russian Online Trolls Resist The Light 244
Feinstein-Burr Encryption Legislation Is Dead In The Water 123
Possible Cellphone Link To Cancer Found In Rat Study 113
Study: '50% of Misogynistic Tweets From Women' 291
Millennials Value Speed Over Security, Says Survey 143
Microsoft Awards Grants To Deliver Affordable Internet Access 25
Researchers Set World Record Wireless Data Transmission Rate of 6 GB/Sec Over 37 KM 72
Americans Used Nearly 10 Trillion Megabytes of Mobile Data Last Year 91
September: Netflix Will 'Become Exclusive US Pay TV Home of Films From Disney, Marvel, Lucasfilm and Pixar' 175
DARPA Extreme DDOS Project Transforming Network Attack Mitigation 21
Apple Opens First 'Next Generation' Retail Store 91
Foul-Mouthed Worm Takes Control Of Wireless ISPs Around the Globe 36
New Surveillance System May Let Cops Use All Of The Cameras 117
Google Is A Serial Tracker 110
PornHub's 'Bangfit' Program Uses Sexy Exercise To Build Muscle 83
Spy Chief: Foreign Hackers May Be Targeting Presidential Candidates 91
Iraq Shuts Down Internet In Entire Country To Prevent Exam Cheating 92
Connecting Everyone To Internet 'Would Add $6.7 Trillion To Global Economy' 117
Firefox Tops Microsoft Browser Market Share For First Time 141
Highly-Conductive Shark Jelly Could Inspire New Tech 45
Former Employee Accuses Wireless Charging Startup uBeam of Being a Sham 118
Google Devs Planning Flash's Demise With New 'HTML5 By Default' Chrome Setting 131
The Pirate Bay Loses Its Main Domain Name In Court Battle 107
Professor Surprises Students With AI Teacher Assistant 85
Linksys WRT Routers Won't Block Open Source Firmware, Despite FCC Rules 113
Germany Set To End Copyright Liability For Open Wi-Fi Operators 46
Pornhub Launches Bug Bounty Program With Rewards Up To $25,000 77
FBI Has Sights On Larger Battle Over Encryption After Apple Feud 171
FTC Orders Apple, Google, Microsoft, BlackBerry, Samsung To Divulge Mobile Security Practices 74
Opera Launches 'Free And Unlimited' VPN App For iOS 23
Streaming Surpasses CD Sales At Warner Music 63
Microsoft Sees Over 10 Million Cyberattacks Per Day On Its Online Infrastructure 63
YouTube To Launch 'Unplugged' Online TV Service In 2017 67
Ellen Pao Launches Advocacy Group To Improve Diversity In The Tech Industry 265
Wireless Carriers To Adopt New Real-Time Text Protocol By December 2017 28
Google Files Patent For Injecting A Device Directly Into Your Eyeball 51
The Critical Hole At the Heart Of Our Cell Phone Networks 32
In Internet Age, Pirate Radio Arises As Surprising Challenge 157
Google's OnHub Is First WiFi Router To Support IFTTT 49
Who's Downloading Pirated Scientifc Papers? Everyone 145
Comcast Is Raising Its Data Caps From 300GB To 1TB 145
Millions Of Waze Users Can Have Their Movements Tracked By Hackers 55
US Justice Dept Approves Charter's Time Warner Cable Purchase With Conditions 67
Over 1 Million People Use Tor To Check Facebook Anonymously Each Month 63
Comcast To Allow TV Customers To Ditch Set-Top Box 113
Google Records Over 750,000 'Hijacking' Breaches In One Year 14
Americans Abandoning Wired Home Internet, Shows Study 352
Smart Mattress With Lover Detection System Will Track Your Partner's Infidelities 161
Amazon Splits Prime Video Service To Compete Directly With Netflix 105
New Full Duplex Radio Chip Transmits and Receives Wireless Signals At Once 33
Google Fiber Wants To Beam Wireless Internet To Your Home 74
Mitel Buys Polycom For $1.96B In Enterprise Communications Consolidation Play 14
Obama Forms Commission To Bolster US Cyber Security 53
iOS 1970 Bug Is Back, Can Be Exploited Via Rogue WiFi Networks 106
Chrome 50 Updates Push Notifications, Drops Support For Old Windows and OS X Versions 168
Piracy Fails To Prevent Another Box Office Record 221
The Battle Between LTE and Wi-Fi May Have Left LTE-U Out In the Cold 60
Syrian Government Hacked, 43GB of Data Spilled Online By Hacktivists 60
Google Fiber Drops Free Basic Service In Its Original City 98
Over 135 Million Routers Vulnerable To Denial-of-service Flaw 115
A Fleet of Trucks Just Drove Themselves Across Europe 156
Facebook Rolls Out Major Live Video Update 16
Quanta LTE Router May Be Most Unsecure Router Ever Made 76
Gov't Researchers Develop Wireless Car Chargers That Are Faster Than Plug-ins 169
China Censors Online Discussion About Panama Papers 109
Toyota Teams With Microsoft On Connected Cars 116
There Are Some Super Shady Things In Oculus Rift's Terms of Service 186
Free Wi-Fi Program in Los Angeles Fails to Provide Free Wi-Fi 94
$40 Hardware Is Enough To Hack $28,000 Police Drones From 2km Away 97
Verizon Plans $20 Upgrade Fee Even If You Pay Full Price For a Phone 187
North Korea Launches Missile and Tries To Jam GPS Signals 127
MIT Demos Wi-Fi That's So High-Tech It Doesn't Need a Password 92
Microsoft Denies Edge Is Getting A Native Ad Blocker 62
California Bill AB 2867 Proposed To Allow You To Cancel Comcast With 'Click Of The Mouse' 120
AT&T Caps Are A Giant Con And An Attack On Cord-Cutters 173
Chinese Scammers Take Mattel To the Bank, Phishing Them For $3 Million 63
Using Adblock Plus to Block Ads is Legal, Rules German Court -- For the Fifth Time 237
Microsoft Unlocks the Ability To Turn Xbox One Consoles Into 'Development Kits' 73
Internet of Seals: Vodafone Connects Marine Mammals To IoT 32
Company Creates Gun That Looks Like a Cellphone 678
US Federal Court: This Year's Scams More Aggressive and Sophisticated Than Years Past 62
Microsoft Finally Ships $8,999 Surface Hub 109
DARPA's Latest Grand Challenge Takes On The Radio Spectrum 64
Hacker Weev Admits To Hacking Printers To Spew Racist and Anti-Semitic Messages 390
AT&T Wants $100 Million From California Taxpayers For Aging DSL 224
Zero-Rating Harms Poor People, Public Interest Groups Tell FCC 205
Redbox Plans To Launch New Streaming Service 'Redbox Digital' 62
University of Illinois Transmits Record 57Gbps Through Fiber Optic Lines 57
Layoffs Reflect New Turbulence At High-Flying 3D Robotics 19
Is Old Tech Putting Banks Under Threat Of Extinction? 208
Amazon's Raspberry Pi Guide Lets Coders Build An Echo 47
1.5 Million Verizon Customer Records Put Up For Sale 26
Netflix Admits To Capping Video Streams On Wireless Networks 69
Microsoft and HP Enterprise Invest $73.5 Million In Mesosphere Startup 27
U.S. Indicts 7 Iranians Accused of Hacking U.S. Financial Institutions 45
Kentucky Hospital Calls State of Emergency In Hack Attack 265
Google Opens Access To Its Speech Recognition API, Going Head To Head With Nuance 46
Apple Worries Spy Technology Has Been Secretly Added To Computer Servers It Buys 251
OLO, World's First Portable 3D Printer Prints On Top Of Smartphones 80
Why We Should Fear A Cashless World 388
Major US Carriers Open Free Calls And Texts To Brussels 58
Paris Terrorists Used Burner Phones, Not Encryption, To Evade Detection 161
Obama Lands In Cuba As First US President To Visit In Nearly A Century 242
Rumor: Broadcom Phasing Out Wi-Fi Chip Business 65
T-Mobile Adds YouTube To Its Zero-Rated Binge On Program 105
EU Court Says Hotspot Owners Aren't Liable For 3rd-Party Piracy 49
LG Releases First Smartphone With DAB+ Chip 53
Wi-Fi Hotspot Blocking Persists Despite FCC Crackdown 85
TP-Link Blocks Open Source Router Firmware To Comply With FCC Rules 36
Hacking Internet-Connected Trucks and Buses 31
Verizon To Pay $1.35 Million Fine To Settle US Privacy Probe 51
Microcasting Color TV By Abusing a Wi-Fi Chip 63
Raspberry Pi 3 Rolls Out With Faster CPU, On-Board Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth 203
Raspberry Pi 3 Brings Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 97
How Ugandans Overturned an Election-Day Blackout of Social Media Apps 54

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