Day: October 9, 2013

In Room With No Cell Service, Verizon Works On Future of Mobile

alphadogg writes “If you think your house has bad cellular coverage, Verizon Wireless has you beat: A small, windowless room high up in a San Francisco office building gets no service at all. That’s not because carriers are neglecting the bustling South of Market business district where the room is located. Instead, it’s because Verizon…


NSW govt to gain upper hand on cloud providers

The NSW government’s datacentre-based cloud market could start up a potential feeding frenzy among government agencies and cloud providers. But will cloud providers be the predators or the prey?……


Ohio school mad at 15-year-old for using ‘Madden’ phrase

In announcing a middle school football game, a 15-year-old describes one player in Gus Johnson’s inimitable phrase, as having “got that getting-away-from-the-cops speed.” The student is disciplined…….


TEPCO Workers Remove Wrong Pipe Get Splashed With Radioactive Water

An anonymous reader writes “A day after TEPCO workers mistakenly turned off cooling pumps serving the spent pool at reactor #4 at the crippled nuclear plant comes a new accident — 6 workers apparently removed the wrong pipe from a primary filtration system and were doused with highly radioactive water. They were wearing protection yet…


T-Mobile’s LTE network goes nationwide, covers 233 cities

The company met its year-end target of covering 200 million people early and will likely end the year covering 205 million people…….


T-Mobile to offer free unlimited international data, texts

The latest shake-up eliminates international roaming rates for data and text messages and simplifies calling rates, the latest carrot dangled by T-Mobile…….


Rumoured rain can’t dampen sun-racers’ spirits

Don’t fall down that mineshaaaaaaaft!……


T-Mobile’s free international plan teased on its own site

The mobile carrier quietly announces that it’s launching free data roaming in more than 100 countries later on this month…….


For $49, a doctor will see you now — online

American Well unveils a new service that connects consumers directly to physicians through their mobile devices for advice — and sometimes even for diagnoses and prescriptions…….


Mobius Forensic Toolkit 0.5.19

Mobius Forensic Toolkit is a forensic framework written in Python/GTK that manages cases and case items, providing an abstract interface for developing extensions. Cases and item categories are defined using XML files for easy integration with other tools…….