Ericsson to Pay Over $1 Billion Fine to Settle Bribery Charges

ZDNet is reporting that Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson has pled guilty to bribing officials in multiple countries and agreed to pay more than $1 billion in fines. Ericsson admitted to engaging in a long-standing scheme to bribe officials in China, Djibouti, Saudi...
Posted On 09 Dec 2019
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Verizon, T-Mobile and US Cellular Exaggerated 4G LTE Coverage

Yesterday we reported on the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) plans to allocate $9 billion to assist rural 5G rollout. It appears that decision was motivated by an investigation showing that Verizon, T-Mobile and US Cellular exaggerated the extent of their 4G LTE...
Posted On 07 Dec 2019
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Dell Turning to AMD Amid Intel Chip Shortage

Yahoo is reporting that Dell is increasingly looking to AMD in response to Intel’s chip shortages. Intel has experienced significant supply issues in 2019, even penning an open letter to customers and partners apologizing for the chip shortages. In the letter, executive vice...
Posted On 07 Dec 2019
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Workona Launches Desktop For The Cloud; Raises $6 Million in Seed Funding

Workona has announced “the launch of their cloud desktop, a work management platform that allows users to access and manage resources across more than 75 popular cloud apps from a single unified system.” The company recently completed “a $6 million seed funding round, led by K9...
Posted On 06 Dec 2019
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FCC Announces $9 Billion 5G Fund For Rural America

Rural America has traditionally lagged behind the rest of the country when it comes to wireless access. Get far enough off the beaten track and wireless coverage pales in comparison to urban environments. According to an announcement by the Federal Communications Commission,...
Posted On 05 Dec 2019
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TikTok Accused of Illegally Collecting Data and Uploading It to China

A California student has filed a class-action lawsuit against TikTock, the wildly popular social media app from China. According to a report in the Daily Beast, the suit alleges that TikTok uploads data without user consent—in some cases without a user even creating an account....
Posted On 04 Dec 2019
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E-commerce ad spend on search and social product ads keeps growing

Product ad spend growth on social outpaced search in the third quarter, Kenshoo reports. Product ad spending continued to grow year-over-year on both social and search channels. Source: Kenshoo E-commerce advertisers spent 39% of their search budgets on Shopping campaigns and 37%...
Posted On 04 Dec 2019
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TrueDialog Database With Tens of Millions of Texts Left Exposed Online

According to researchers at privacy firm vpnMentor, millions of Americans’ data is at risk following the discovery of a breached database belonging to TrueDialog. TrueDialog is “the leading SMS provider for mass text messaging, SMS marketing and personalized 2-way SMS texting at...
Posted On 03 Dec 2019
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The silent killers of loading time and how to fix them

Imagine visiting a website that takes more than 10, no two seconds to load. We know that the mouse is going to hover to the top right corner because honestly, no one has the time to wait nowadays. A Forbes article mentioned that a mere one-second delay in page load time means a...
Posted On 02 Dec 2019
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