- GM Partners WIth AT&T To Increase 5G Connectivity In Vehicles
Marketing Daily, Tanya Gazdik - Thursday, August 19, 2021
Current owners with 4G LTE-capable model year 2019 and newer vehicles can migrate to the new network infrastructure once available. ...
- American Honda, AT&T Extend Partnership With WarnerMedia Ride
Marketing Daily, Tanya Gazdik - Thursday, May 27, 2021
Passengers can now access 1,000+ hours of live and on-demand entertainment including Cartoon Network, CNN, HBO Max, TBS, TNT and TruTV. ...
- Spectrum Mobile Should Stop Boasting Of 'Fastest Overall Speed,' Watchdog Says
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, April 27, 2021
Conclusion: Speed advantage comes "only when the consumer is located in certain markets or connected to Spectrum WiFi." ...
- 'Unbreakable' Game Controller From Fios Trolls Slower ISPs
Marketing Daily, P.J. Bednarski - Tuesday, April 13, 2021
Verizon's Fios video spoofs internet lag rage-quitting, "invents" an unbreakable controller for gamers who don't have Fios. ...
- Comcast Shouldn't Boast Of Best WiFi Experience, Watchdog Says
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, January 27, 2021
Comcast shouldn't advertise its service as the "best in-home WiFi experience," the National Advertising Review Board said, upholding a decision issued last year. ...
- Predictions: Buy Direct On Google, Verified Reviews, Data Security, Cookieless Standards
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, December 31, 2020
Zoom became a verb in 2020. Cloud services showed their worth. Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet and Facebook will be in better shape next year than most companies, as the wor ...
- How Wi-Fi Data Forecasts A Return To 'Normal' Amidst COVID-19
Data & Programmatic Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, August 17, 2020
Zenreach analyzes foot traffic through aggregated Wi-Fi data it collects from consumers in physical locations who opt in for free Wi-Fi access in exchange for their email address. The loc ...
- Workers Can't Define Ransomware And Are Ignoring Security Best Practices: Study
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, May 6, 2020
Boomers are more likely than younger people to know what phishing and ransomware are. But millennials and Gen Z are more hip to smishing and vishing, Proofpoint reports. ...
- FCC Makes More Spectrum Available For WiFi
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, April 23, 2020
The FCC says its move will boost WiFi, but the National Association of Broadcasters warns that unlicensed spectrum use could interfere with local radio and TV broadcasters. ...
- Wi-Fi Calling Minutes Jump 96%
AI & IoT Daily, Chuck Martin - Thursday, April 23, 2020
As consumers continue to hunker down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, they are leaning heavily on communication technology. The latest network tracking from AT&T shows a 96% increase in Wi- ...
- Activist Wants Appeals Court To Scrap Google 'Street View' Privacy Settlement
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, April 10, 2020
A musician who opposed Google's privacy settlement over data collection by "Street View" cars has appealed a trial judge's decision to approve the $13 million deal. ...
- Charter To Up Minimum Wage To $20 Over Two Years, Starting With 'Frontline' Workers
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, April 7, 2020
The cable operator says the pandemic accelerated implementation of a wage hike already under discussion. ...
- Google Street View Privacy Settlement Granted Final Approval
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, March 20, 2020
A federal judge has approved Google's "Wi-Spy" settlement, which requires the company to pay around $10 million to nonprofits that promote online privacy. ...
- Facebook Says Location Privacy Lawsuit Too Vague, Seeks Dismissal
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, March 11, 2020
A class-action privacy complaint "fails to specify what, if any, location-related information was actually collected by Facebook," the company argues. ...
- Rail Travellers Have Had Data Compromised After Using Wi-Fi
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Tuesday, March 3, 2020
Rail travellers who use free station Wifi have had their personal information compromised, the BBC reports. Data from more than 10,000 people has been found to be available on t ...
- Did Mobile Marketers Just Lose A Route To Dodgy Location Data?
London Blog, Sean Hargrave - Tuesday, March 3, 2020
The railway station free Wi-Fi data breach will impact the murky world of location data. ...
- Google 'Street View' Privacy Settlement Faces Challenge
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Google's proposed $13 million "Wi-Spy" settlement is facing a challenge by an activist and nine state attorneys general, who argue the deal shouldn't be approved because it doesn't compensate peop ...
- American Airlines, Delta Rush To Implement Technology From Google, Others
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, January 8, 2020
Google released a list of top search destinations Wednesday as American Airlines and Delta Air Lines at CES announced major upgrades to the technology they will use to help travel ...
- WiFi Network Boingo Restructures, Cuts Ad Organization
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Saturday, December 14, 2019
WiFi network Boingo Wireless is restructuring and is cutting the staff of its ad network Boingo Media, according to a source familiar with the move. In a filing with t ...
- Google's Street View Privacy Settlement Moves Forward
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, October 10, 2019
The agreement calls for the company to pay around $10 million to nonprofits that promise to use the money to promote online privacy. ...
- Wi-Fi Worries: Consumers Use Public Services Despite Privacy Fears
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Thursday, September 12, 2019
A BullGuard study finds Germans are more concerned about privacy than British and American consumers. ...
- Google Agrees To $13 Million Wi-Spy Settlement
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, July 22, 2019
The proposed agreement calls for the company to make donations to eight nonprofits and destroy some of the data collected 10 years ago by its Street View cars. ...
- TfL To Use Wi-Fi To Understand Footfall Better
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Thursday, May 23, 2019
TfL will use de-personalised wi-fi tracking at underground stations which offer connectivity to follow user movements around stations and to better calculate footfall, "The Drum" writes. ...
- Charter Settles Suit Over Broadband Speeds For $174 Million
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, December 18, 2018
Charter has agreed to refund New York customers $62.5 million in order to resolve allegations that Time Warner Cable duped consumers by advertising faster Internet speeds than it delivered. ...
- Comcast Lets Parents Program Internet Time Limit For Kids
Connected Thinking, Chuck Martin - Thursday, July 12, 2018
Most parents set rules for how much time their children can use the internet at home but then must play good cop or bad cop when their children near the ...
- Wi-Fi Alliance Supports New Security Protocol
Around the Net In Digital, Gavin O'Malley - Tuesday, June 26, 2018
The Wi-Fi Alliance is beginning to certify products that support WPA3, which succeeds the WPA2 security protocol that’s been in place since 2004. “The new protocol provides a number ...
- The Gigabyte Economy: OTT Fuels Household Data Consumption
Research Intelligencer, Joe Mandese - Thursday, June 21, 2018
The average U.S. WiFi household increased its data consumption 26% in the past year, according to estimates released by comScore as part of a "State of OTT" webinar presented toda ...
- Google Likely To Resolve WiFi Snooping Case With Nonprofit Donations
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, June 18, 2018
The settlement, If accepted by Breyer, will resolve an 8-year-old battle stemming from revelations that the Google's Street View cars collected a host of data -- including URLs, passwords a ...
- Google Agrees To Resolve Wi-Spy Lawsuit
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, March 7, 2018
Google has tentatively agreed to settle an 8-year-old privacy battle over the collection of data by its Street View cars, according to court papers filed Tuesday. ...
- Google Starts Rolling Out Chromecast Fix For WiFi Problems
AI & IoT Daily, Chuck Martin - Thursday, January 18, 2018
Google has announced that it will be rolling out a fix for an issue impacting home WiFi networks. In a statement, the company said it is aware of an iss ...
