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  Saudi Arabia clamps down on messaging apps with ban of Viber

  By Chris Welch on June 5, 2013 12:20 pm + 54 comments

  Viber's popular messaging app has been banned in Saudi Arabia. The Communications and Information Continue reading…

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  New, more accurate, more secure GPS III satellite completes testing at Lockheed Martin

  By Carl Franzen on June 5, 2013 11:37 am + 9 comments

  The US Air Force, which manages the network of 31 operation global positioning system (GPS) Continue reading…

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  Quantum-encrypted information transmitted by flying plane for first time

  By Carl Franzen on April 2, 2013 05:50 pm + 14 comments

  In a boost to future secret agents and a blow to their would-be eavesdroppers, German researchers Continue reading…

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  NASA will test laser data transmission from space station in October

  By Carl Franzen on February 25, 2013 12:55 pm + 23 comments

  NASA is just like the rest of us when it comes to wanting faster wireless data rates. But the space Continue reading…

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  Communications satellites no longer classed as weapons, US export ban lifted

  By Aaron Souppouris on January 4, 2013 03:39 am + 14 comments

  For the first time since in over a decade, American companies will be permitted to sell and export Continue reading…

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  What happened to Syria's internet?

  By Kimber Streams on November 30, 2012 10:16 am + 8 comments

  Syria's country-wide internet outage has been blamed on "terrorists" and a cable fault, but content Continue reading…

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  Syrian internet goes dark in the midst of violent upheaval (update)

  By Dante D'Orazio on November 29, 2012 10:23 am + 35 comments

  Syria, a Middle Eastern country in the midst of a violent civil war, has been cut off from the Continue reading…

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  Proposed emergency communications system borrows neighborhood Wi-Fi connections

  By Justin Rubio on August 21, 2012 08:38 pm + 15 comments

  During a major disaster, cellular signals can become flooded by high call volumes, but German Continue reading…

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  Is the FBI breaching the Constitution in the name of national security?

  By Jamie Keene on March 16, 2012 08:49 am + 53 comments

  A report in Wired has exposed the shady way in which the FBI is using National Security Letters Continue reading…

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  AT&T's YouTube archive: Henson, Shatner, and Mr. Digit

  By Jamie Keene on March 6, 2012 08:50 am + 2 comments

  The regular readers among you might remember Computer H14, a Jim Henson creation for AT&T that Continue reading…