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How to stay safe online? A Q&A with Vint Cerf, the 'Father of the internet' (USAToday)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 05/15/2019 - 11:46Why your cable company might be happy to see you stop subscribing to its TV service: Data Caps.
If your cable operator invites you to dump its TV service and switch to online streaming, its internet rates may hide a surprise that will be painful to you and profitable to your internet provider. Data caps limiting how much you can download per month are an unpleasant reality at too many providers, but small cable services can be significantly less generous with them. Those same companies also have the hardest time keeping programming costs in check and increasingly lose money on video.
AT&T expands mobile 5G rollout with seven new cities, total rises to 19 (USAToday)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 04/09/2019 - 12:32Cyberattack diverts almost $500,000 out of city of Tallahassee payroll account (USAToday)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Sun, 04/07/2019 - 18:13Facebook shuts down thousands of fake pages in its latest crackdown (USAToday)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 03/26/2019 - 18:07T-Mobile promises to support low-income Lifeline program 'indefinitely' if merger approved
In its continued effort to gain approval for its merger with Sprint, T-Mobile has pledged to keep supporting Sprint's low-income Assurance Wireless brand "indefinitely." Assurance along with Sprint's other prepaid brands, Boost Mobile and Virgin Wireless, and T-Mobile's Metro are popular with lower-income and cost-conscious Americans for their cheaper alternatives to traditional plans than the main four wireless networks. "The digital divide is real and we want to help eliminate it," T-Mobile president Mike Sievert said.