Telecom

Companies can silently reroute your texts to hackers, sometimes for just $16

There’s a newly discovered attack on SMS messaging that’s almost invisible to victims, and seemingly sanctioned by the telecom industry, uncovered in a report by Motherboard. The attack uses text-messaging management services that are aimed at businesses to silently redirect text messages from a victim to hackers, giving them access to any two-factor codes or… Read more

2020 GPU Sales Failed to Impress, Despite Record Demand

Home News (Image credit: ASUS) Sales of PCs increased sharply in 2020 as people needed new desktops and notebooks to work and learn from home. As a result, shipments of GPUs (graphics processing units) also increased compared to 2019, mostly because the majority of today’s CPUs (central processing units) come with integrated GPUs. But while… Read more

You shouldn’t have to publicly humiliate AT&T to get usable internet

Earlier this month, Aaron Epstein spent $10,000 to buy an ad in The Wall Street Journal to tell AT&T’s CEO he wasn’t happy with his internet service — service that was limited to a paltry 3Mbps (via Ars Technica). Now, AT&T has him hooked up with a fiber connection, and he’s getting over 300 Mbps… Read more

Myanmar orders internet providers to block Twitter and Instagram in the country

Not long after it blocked Facebook, Myanmar has now ordered mobile networks and internet service providers to block Twitter and Facebook-owned Instagram in the country as well. The southeast Asian country’s military seized power in a coup earlier this week, detaining its civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi along with other government officials. Facebook users… Read more

To all the streaming services you’ve never heard of before

For every household streamer — Netflix, Hulu, Disney Plus — there are a dozen that few users would likely recognize. How many people can explain what Xumo, Tubi, Vudu, and Pluto TV are? How about Acorn TV, Ovid, and Popcornflix? But all of these obscure services may play a vital role in how the streaming… Read more

Mobile networks: the federal government and the industry rely on Open RAN

The federal government is promoting the further development of the open mobile communications standard Open RAN (Open Radio Access Network) as part of the Corona economic stimulus package decided last summer with around 2 billion euros. According to media reports, the funding is now to be distributed by four ministries. Accordingly, the research ministry 635… Read more

MagentaMobil Try & Buy: Three months of 5G tariff and Disney + free

Three months free in the 5G network: Telekom would like to win new customers with the MagentaMobil Try & Buy advertising offer. Those who book the offer receive the Telecom tariff MagentaMobil S free of charge for three months. The usually 40 euro expensive tariff offers 6 GByte data volume per month as well as… Read more

The fight to make Netflix and Hulu pay cable fees

Streaming services are slowly turning into cable TV — complete with bundles, an ever-growing list of channels, and a reinvented TV guide. And a series of lawsuits could portend the return of something even worse: the hidden cable fee. Three municipalities in Georgia are suing Netflix, Hulu, and other streaming video providers for as much… Read more

5G frequencies bring avalanche of money at US auction

The auction of US frequency usage rights in the range 3.7 to 3, 98 GHz breaks all records: 80, 917 billion US dollars (67 billion euros) in preliminary bids have already come together in the 97 rounds of the first auction phase. The US regulatory authority FCC has never raised that much money with a… Read more

TIM Special LE: only € 9.99 to get 70GB and much more! Here's who can activate them

A really interesting offer from TIM to users who want to activate a sim by making portability from other operators. In this case the cost is only 9. 99 ?? per month for unlimited calls and SMS and 70 GB of traffic. Here is who it is for. by Bruno Mucciarelli published 18 January 2021… Read more

Oppo A93 5G listed on Chinese retailer’s website with 90Hz display

Yesterday we learned Oppo is planning to announce the A93 5G as it was listed on China Telecom’s website with full specs and renders. Today, the smartphone was spotted on Chinese retailer TMall’s website in three colors. The TMall listing reveals that A93 5G will pack a 6.5″ FullHD+ IPS display instead of AMOLED panel… Read more

AT&T TV Now is now AT&T TV — here’s what that means

AT&T TV Now is no more. New customers can no longer sign up for telecom’s skinny bundle TV service, similar to YouTube TV or Hulu with Live TV. Instead, customers can only sign up for AT&T TV. Simply put: AT&T now has one virtual TV service instead of two. Existing customers will be able to… Read more

What to expect from Samsung’s Galaxy S21 event

Samsung’s next Unpacked event will kick off on January 14th at 10AM ET, and thanks to copious leaks, we have a pretty good idea of what to expect from the big day. Samsung is widely expected to announce its next lineup of flagship phones, which will likely be called the S21, S21 Plus, and the… Read more

Looks like Samsung’s Galaxy Buds Pro and SmartTags are a lock for January 14th

Samsung is widely expected to announce its Galaxy S21 lineup of phones at its upcoming January 14th event, and now it looks like we can safely assume that Samsung will launch its next true wireless headphones and its Tile competitor at the event as well. A leaked marketing render of a promotion offering either the… Read more

Amazon's AWS may not be called AWS in China

Amazon.com is not allowed to market its cloud services in China as “AWS. That was decided by a court in the People’s Republic. A Chinese IT company had already registered” AWS “as Amazon eight years earlier. This means that Amazon’s brand registrations are Not valid for AWS and related terms such as “aws marketspace”. Also,… Read more