Now, it seems that every piece of mail that I receive through the Postal Service is always asking the question, “Do you want to go paperless?” Being involved in technology daily, you’d think my response would be “Yes” with no hesitation, but that’s not the case. Personally, I am little hesitant when it comes to receiving all of my mail and important documents electronically. The words “what if” always resonate in the ...
Remember the old fast food jingle, “Hold the pickle, hold the lettuce. Special orders don’t upset us?” The catchy tune was Burger King’s way of pointing out that their competitors, primarily McDonalds and Wendy’s, only served burgers one way and that’s what you got when you ordered. No exceptions. Don’t want sauce on your Big Mac? Order something else. To be fair, that’s changed these days, and if you don’t want fries ...
Broadband providers are facing the reality that they can no longer offer all-you-can-eat bandwidth to all their subscribers. Those days are gone. More of us are using more of our broadband connection. We’re watching more video on more devices. Some folks have dropped their traditional Pay TV and others are seriously considering doing the same–cutting the cord in favor of over-the-top (OTT) TV.
Some pioneers who tried implementing broadband usage enforcement limits and ...
Continue Reading →The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, widely known as the CISPA cybersecurity bill, made progress in its bid for adoption by making it past the House of Representatives for the second time. The ending tally for the bill stood at a vote of 287-127. CISPA is now headed to the Senate, who in the past, has declined the bill citing that the security measures were not enough to protect the privacy of those involved.
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Continue Reading →Recently, the Senate Communications Subcommittee met with rural telecom and cable operators to discuss the challenges and barriers that they face providing service to rural consumers. The goal of the committee is to “bridge the digital” divide so that broadband is an impactful force in rural communities similarly as in larger, more urban areas. ZCorum Affiliate, Ritter Communications, Inc., was invited to testify and was represented by Vice President – External Affairs, John Strode. With extensive history ...
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It seems like there has been talk of a Facebook phone or operating system for quite some time now, but Zuckerberg put those rumors to rest (at least for now) with the announcement of Facebook Home. Facebook Home, being dubbed as “the super app,” is an Android-based app that acts like a skin that updates the standard Android OS with a more modern, Facebook-like look. The Android home screen will be replaced ...
If you use Facebook regularly, you know Facebook introduces new changes just about as much as we change our clothes. As soon as you get used to a new feature that made you groan when it was initially announced, they roll out something new and “improved” that starts the groans all over again.
For Facebook Page users with 10,000+ followers, the threaded replies and comments feature was added to the desktop version ...
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From handling network abuse daily, lately, I’ve noticed a rise in the number of password compromise issues that have surfaced. The majority of the password compromise issues are primarily due to users having weak passwords configured on their accounts. Weak passwords posed one of the biggest security breaches in 2012 for not only individual users, but large corporations and the governement as well. Studies show that 90% of the attacks ...
The movers and shakers of the independent cable industry convened on our nation’s capital for the American Cable Association’s (ACA) 20th Anniversary Summit. Throughout the summit, keynote speakers praised cable operators on being the “job creators and innovators” while also tackling issues ranging from lack of broadband infrastructure to support an “all-IP world” to telecommunication laws not being ...
DSL providers know that they’re often at a disadvantage compared to cable operators when it comes to tools to do basic tasks with the CPE gear they’ve deployed. For example, it’s fairly easy to keep DOCSIS cable modems on a current version of firmware, and it’s trivial to reboot a modem that you think is misbehaving. For many DSL providers neither of those things are easy. ...
