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Troubled T-Mobile reported early Nov. 4 it has restored service after a widespread outage disrupted service for nearly 2 million customers. The outage began at approximately 5 p.m. EST on Nov. 3 and T-Mobile said service was restored about 10:30 p.m. EST.“T-Mobile confirms it has fully restored voice and text [and] picture messaging services for […]

Long Term Evolution leaders AT&T, Verizon, Vodafone and Nokia joined eight other equipment vendors and device manufacturers Nov. 4 to announce a jointly developed technical profile for LTE voice and Short Message Service services. The companies said they hope the technical profile will pave the way for a “smooth introduction and delivery of voice and […]

Apple and the French cell phone operator Orange formally dropped their exclusive arrangement to distribute the iPhone in France Nov. 3. The decision comes months after the French competition authority ruled against the exclusive distribution deal.The French regulatory agency ruled that the Apple-Orange exclusive distribution deal “could introduce a new factor of rigidity into a […]

Gary Kaplan, the founder of what was once one of the Internet’s most thriving sports betting businesses, was sentenced to 51 months in prison Nov. 2 and “forfeited to the United States $43,650,000 in criminal proceeds. An additional amount of approximately $7 million has been forfeited in related proceedings, bringing the total forfeiture in this […]

Sprint said Nov. 2 it has launched WiMax service in Chicago and Dallas-Fort Worth in addition to three markets in North Carolina. Sprint launched the nation’s first WiMax deployment in Baltimore in September 2008 before spinning off its WiMax Xohn division into Clearwire’s 4G operations. Clearwire and Sprint Nextel are the only two U.S. carriers […]

The tech industry is growing impatient over President Obama’s failure so far to appoint a cyber-security coordinator in the White House. It has been more than five months since Obama held a much ballyhooed media event on the importance of cyber-security and pledging to appoint a cyber-security coordinator. “Those that would seek to harm America […]

It was October 1969 and Paul McCartney was not dead. He even said so in a press conference. The 100-to-1 shot New York Mets won the World Series. The cold war between Russia and the United States was anything but with nuclear testing continuing unabated by both sides. The United States, though, was riding high […]

Score one for Albert Einstein. In May, NASA’s Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope and other satellites spotted a short gamma ray burst, an explosion that astronomers think happens when neutron stars collide. NASA scientists calculated the explosion took place in a galaxy 7.3 billion light-years away.Of the many gamma ray photons Fermi’s LAT (large area […]

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers approved Oct. 30 the new Internationalized Domain Name Fast Track Process to allow nations and territories to apply for Internet extensions reflecting their name – and made up of characters from their national language. Currently, Internet address endings are limited to Latin characters. If the applications meet criteria […]

IBM debuted a new software platform Oct. 30 that Big Blue says is designed to change the way that local, state and national governments manage and deliver services to the public. The IBM Government Industry Framework is a base software platform enhanced by the contributions of independent software developers who are using the platform to […]