Sentences with phrase «phone and internet companies»

The court decision represents a victory for privacy advocates in Germany and elsewhere, who have been vocal about surveillance issues, especially in light of ongoing leaks from Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor who disclosed how the United States had co-opted phone and internet companies to participate in large - scale spying.
The number of organisations which can approach phone and internet companies and ask for communications data will be limited, with local councils having to go through a central authority.

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Laptops, Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), and Blackberries (wireless cell phone and PDA units) use wireless data transfer technologies to provide users with almost instant access to information stored on a company's computer networks and servers from just about anywhere within reach of a cell phone tower or wireless Internet transmitter.
Wheeler's «split the baby» approach to the contentious net neutrality debate, reported on over the weekend by the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, would effectively reclassify Internet service providers as public utilities akin to the phone companies under Title II of the Telecommunications Act, but only in dealing with large content providers such as Netflix and Google's Youtube.
Assistant can be used on Android phones and through Google Home, the company's Internet - connected speaker and home - automation device.
The internet, of course, offers all kinds of video and phone services that compete with the bread and butter of telecom and cable companies.
The company covers computers and other home - office equipment, including monitors and stands, as well as employees» phone and internet services.
TechCrunch's Michael Arrington is reporting that an investor group consisting of venture capital and private equity firms are combining resources to make a bid to acquire the Internet phone company from eBay.
The company should be able to negotiate better group rates on phone and internet plans as it grows.
Hamilton's portfolio includes Text Engine, a startup that allows users with «dumb phones» to pull information from the internet; Radial, a music - streaming app focused on the soca, a Caribbean - based drum - heavy dance offshoot of calypso; and Tinsel, a hardware company that makes fashionable necklaces that double as headphones.
Outspent by rival Apple more than three - to - one in advertising for mobile phones in the U.S. in 2011, Samsung responded with a marketing blitz on TV, billboards, the Internet and print media that moved the Korean company into the pole position last year.
In case you missed it, Wheeler set the Internet on fire earlier this month when it emerged that he had a plan to institute a right for Internet providers — cable and phone companies — to create a «fast lane» for online services and websites.
The company shifted focus to the Internet of Things, 5G and the cloud after its mobile phone business was bought and sold by Microsoft.
Last August, Facebook teamed up with phone companies, including Samsung, Ericcson, and Nokia to launch Internet.org, which aims to connect people living without the Internet (that's two - thirds of the world) to free or low - cost Internet service.
In Canada, the company's competitors are telecom companies that also sell cellphones, internet access, phones, broadcast television and even banking services.
With broadband Internet, however, most North American consumers have only two options: a cable company and a phone provider.
He would go on to revolutionize the personal computer industry by providing a way for companies and consumers to order custom - made machines at a reasonable price — first on the phone, then on the Internet.
Facebook has a special lab stocked with low - end Android phones, old flip phones and weak networking to help the company figure out what computing conditions are like in parts of the world with limited internet connection.
The public has vehemently rejected its current proposal, which would allow Internet service companies to enact «fast lanes,» but if the agency decides to enforce net neutrality and reclassify broadband providers, it faces an avalanche of lawsuits from phone and cable companies.
And the company's emphasis appears to be on bundling wireless service for its TV, phone and Internet service customers instead of focusing on a stand alone mobile pitAnd the company's emphasis appears to be on bundling wireless service for its TV, phone and Internet service customers instead of focusing on a stand alone mobile pitand Internet service customers instead of focusing on a stand alone mobile pitch.
The program offers pared - down Internet services on mobile phones, along with access to the company's own social network and messaging services, without charge.
Last year, the company said it would buy satellite TV provider DirecTV for $ 48.5 billion so it could offer bundles of TV, Internet and phone services — just like cable companies.
Fifty - three percent of companies surveyed by internet security provider Check Point Software Technologies store sensitive customer information on mobile devices, and that percentage is expected to skyrocket as business continues to migrate from the desktop to phones and tablets.
Lacavera still owns Toronto - based Globalive telecom company, which provides high - speed Internet and home phone service to consumers and a variety of telecom services to small business.
About $ 1 million of the company's $ 3.5 million in angel funding has gone to Internet - related software, hardware, and phone systems, and some 10 % of its sales go to staff a five - person customer - service department.
The companies had about 20 lawsuits pending over uses of patents in mobile phones, wireless connectivity, Internet video, and other technologies.
Asked about Internet firms such as Google, Microsoft Corp.'s MSN and online phone service Vonage, Whitacre told Business Week that those companies were dependent on SBC's lines — or «pipes» — for their success in reaching consumers.
Since most phone systems were down at the time, NHN Japan, a subsidiary of South Korean Internet company Naver, created LINE so people could contact family and friends in crises like this.
With only 20 percent of the system working a month later, public utility companies can not restore regular water, internet, and phone service.
Google announced that the city would be the inaugural site for its «Fiber for Communities» program, which it says will be able to deliver Internet access more than 100 times faster than the home broadband connections provided by phone and cable companies across the country.
We are a multi-channel marketing company, we utilise internet, mobile, social media, print, Facebook marketing and phone apps.
Google, the world's largest Internet company, once viewed China, the world's largest Internet market, as a bottomless well of opportunity with nearly 400 million Web users, and an even larger number of potential customers for its nascent, but vital, mobile phone business.
You need to place yourself in that day and age, its 1949 and computers are not that powerful, there's no internet, the only way to get information about a company is by writing to them (phones were not available everywhere) or by reading newspapers.
Windstream is one of the largest providers of telecommunications services in rural communities in the United States, and we are a customer - focused telecommunications company that provides phone, high - speed Internet and digital television services.
Verizon is a leading global communications company that operates as three main entities: Verizon Wireless, the nation's most reliable 4G LTE network; Verizon Enterprise Services, providing Internet and phone services to large businesses in over 150 countries; and Verizon Residential Solutions, offering landline, digital TV, and Internet access to customers across the U.S.
Prior to this, Adrian was co-founder and CEO of smart phone and Internet of Things security company Mocana Corporation, had profit and loss responsibility for Philips Electronics connected devices infrastructure, and was Chairman of the Board for Australia's expat network, Advance.org.
The company's wireless segment accounted for $ 1.7 billion of revenue, up 7.4 per cent from last year, while the wireline segment — including phone, Internet and TV distribution services for homes and business — was up 2.3 per cent to $ 1.4 billion.
It competes with cable companies for Internet access, phone, and television customers, and it will not be a driver of future growth.
According to the accountability software company Covenant Eyes, one in five mobile internet searches is for porn, and by 2017 a quarter of a billion people will be accessing adult content using their mobile phone or tablet.
It's also laughable (and mind - boggling) that I actually thought $ 22 was an acceptable amount of money to pay for 14 hours of internet access when I scoff at the cell phone company for charging us about the same amount for an entire month of browsing - on - the - fly.
Cell phone carriers, cable companies, and Internet providers often offer the best rates to new customers.
Mead Johnson & Company accepts American Express, Discover, MasterCard and Visa for internet or phone orders.
Communications companies will apparently be required to store records of customers» phone and internet use for a year, according to the briefings given to the press.
They have behaved like a criminal gang, hacking phone companies, along with the NSA, to steal millions of records and using coercion and infiltration to bypass the encryption protections used by private internet companies.
The coalition introduced emergency legislation last year to maintain internet and phone companies» obligation to store their customers» personal communications data and to give access to the police.
And to finally answer the question about how Vote Leave found this obscure Canadian company on the other side of the planet, he wrote: «Someone found AIQ [AggregateIQ] on the internet and interviewed them on the phone then told me — let's go with these guAnd to finally answer the question about how Vote Leave found this obscure Canadian company on the other side of the planet, he wrote: «Someone found AIQ [AggregateIQ] on the internet and interviewed them on the phone then told me — let's go with these guand interviewed them on the phone then told me — let's go with these guys.
Those rules, which prohibit phone and cable companies from interfering with Internet traffic on their broadband networks, are facing legal challenges from Verizon and MetroPCS.
Since 1998, telecoms companies have been forced to provide the security services with regular access to BCD — the who, what, where and when of personal communications data, including information such as the location and time of a communication made by phone or over the internet, but not the content of the message.
The group included Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates, whose estimated personal wealth is greater than $ 46.5 billion, and Niklas Zennström, the upstart CEO of the Internet - based phone service Skype Technologies, who recently sold his three - year - old company to eBay for $ 2.6 billion.
A year ago, the two companies teamed up to offer the Skype Wi - Fi mobile phone, which lets callers make free Internet calls to anyone who also has a Skype account and access to a Wi - Fi wireless Internet connection.
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