The Federal Communications Commission’s net neutrality regulations—which just came into effect this past Friday—are about to receive their first field test according to The Washington Post. Commercial Network Services is in the process of filing suit against Time Warner for “charging [. . .] unreasonable rates to deliver its streaming videos to Time Warner’s customers.” According to the Washington Post ...
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AT&T customer records sold throughout call centers
Technically, AT&T is not at fault for this customer records data breach, but the call centers that work for the service providers, Nonetheless, AT&T has been fined a record $25 million, which according to the FCC is the largest sum ever fined in a data breach and customer privacy case ever. According to the FCC, over the past year, AT&T ...
Read More »Samsung Galaxy A7 spotted in FCC listing complete with specs
The Samsung Galaxy A7 is the third smartphone in the company’s “A” series, which also includes the Galaxy A5 and the Galaxy A3. While the A5 is already available to purchase in China and the A3 will also go on sale soon, the A7 is still nowhere to be seen. However, things will soon change as the device already payed ...
Read More »Nexus Player finally gets FCC certification, pre-orders expected to resume soon
Last week Google announced the Nexus Player and was quick to make it available for pre-order from the Play Store shortly after the announcement was made. However, just the following day we heard that the search giant was forced to remove it as it lacked FCC approval. It’s unclear how such an important thing as proper certification could have been overlooked ...
Read More »Google is working on new wireless technology
Google is working on new technology that could be the wireless version of its high speed fiber service. The project was revealed in regulatory filling paperwork, and in a highly redacted application to the FCC Google asked permission to test different wireless spectrums including a millimeter wave frequency technology that could theoretically transmit huge amounts of data at several GB ...
Read More »HTC Nexus 9 gets FFC approval, new image surfaces
Google is rumored to be working with HTC on a new tablet called Nexus 9, also known as Volantis. The device is said to launch later this month and preparations are well underway it seems. A recently spotted FCC listing reveals that Volantis has now been certified with the model number 0P82100. This is the very same number that was rumored ...
Read More »Apple Watch battery life mystery
Apple has introduced the Apple Watch a couple of days ago, but failed to mention even the smallest detail about battery life, which remains a mystery to this day. Tim Cook has mentioned that one could wear the watch all day, but he didn’t say anything about whether it would be working or not by the end of that wonderful ...
Read More »LG G3 comes in two different variants: LG D850 and LG D851
Big news for LG fans, it seems the company will announce not one, but two different variants of the LG G3. The two variants are pretty similar to the LG model revealed earlier in some leaks (the D855). Now we’re talking about the D850 and the D851. Both devices are 5.76 inches tall and 2.94 inched wide, which confirms the ...
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