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Why Unlocked Phones Don't Work In the US 442

Posted by timothy on Thursday November 11, 2010 @10:12PM from the they're-just-not-trying-hard-enough dept.

schnell writes "Unlocked cellular devices have long been a part of the wireless landscape in Europe and elsewhere. But longtime industry analyst Andrew Seybold explains why that model doesn't work in the US due to technology and frequency differences, and why LTE adoption may not make things any better."

Submission + - Hackers blamed over MessageLabs spam blunder (itnews.com.au)

Submitted by littlekorea on Thursday November 11, 2010 @08:39PM

littlekorea writes: MessageLabs claims to have discovered that the systems of one of its customers was hacked by spammers after an entire block of MessageLabs IP addresses was blocked by antispam service SORBS. Customers of the managed email service had problems with outbound mail last week after MessageLabs' IP addresses were included in SORBS' block list. The Symantec-owned service provider has assured customers it has systems in place to prevent such incidents from happening again.

Comment Re:Data walls... (Score 2, Interesting) 120

by techjoe on Saturday November 06, 2010 @10:38AM (#34147050) Attached to: Google Challenges Facebook Over User Address Books

It is really easy to tie people together and how they've come to be connected once you have such a large dataset to work from. I cannot stand the automatic address booking of addresses itself but that's just one small cog in this run-away train's gearbox..

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