Galloping power lines: How winter storms cause power outages Iowa winters can bring heavy snow and fierce winds. When those factors combine, they can cause powerlines to bounce — or gallop — and knock out power. An emergency service provider in West Des Moines said the statewide telecommunications outage Thursday that impacted internet and landline …
FRANKFORT — Walking to his office in the state capitol annex last month, state Sen. Gex Williams pulled out his phone to show a photo of a billboard that appeared in Frankfort weeks earlier. The billboard along a well-traveled street displays in bold, white font the words, “OUR COMMUNITY IS NOT FOR SALE,” along with …
A statewide telecommunications outage Thursday impacted internet and landline phones services, including calls to 911 and area hospitals. The outage is widespread, affecting everything from work-from-home employees, to bank ATMs, to restaurant credit card machines. Lumen Technologies did not have an estimated time for restoration. Lumen, which also operates CenturyLink internet, had an internal water …
Long View Systems, T-Rex Solutions, NexusTek, Secureworks, Deepwatch and Five9 are among the companies to list open positions for channel-related roles. This month, Long View Systems, T-Rex Solutions and NexusTek are among the solution providers to list open positions while Secureworks, Deepwatch and Five9 are among the vendors to list open positions for channel-related roles. …
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This week in Canadian telecom saw disappearing 5G plans, price hikes and more. Check it out below: Pricing and deals Fido offered some existing customers special deals, including $30/60GB and $40/90GB 4G plans. Virgin Plus launched a five-year price lock on internet plans, but only in Quebec. Lucky and Chatr launched a 15GB data bonus …
Betty Lin-Fisher and Amritpal Kaur Sandhu-Longoria | USA TODAY What is net neutrality? Net neutrality is the idea that Internet providers must treat all data they transmit equally. Encyclopaedia Britannica The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday voted to reinstate rules repealed in 2017 that would prevent internet service providers from disrupting your internet speed. The …
Whatever my school’s rule is on artificial intelligence, I will abide by it. But the concern over Grammarly makes me think of the debate over calculator use in schools from the 1970s. William Tang | Opinion contributor Arizona State University now offering AI degree Artificial intelligence is continuing to gain popularity as the technology evolves, …
Armed with about $49 billion that Congress appropriated in 2021, a normally inconspicuous Commerce Department agency is tackling an ambitious goal of giving all Americans access to high-speed internet. At a recent congressional hearing, Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. of New Jersey, the top Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said the National Telecommunications and Information Administration “may …
Advanced optical filters are improving laser-based satellite communications by enabling ‘more signal and less background.’ JASON PALIDWAR, IRIDIAN SPECTRAL TECHNOLOGIES, AND DAVID SAMUELS, ADVANCED THIN FILMS Rapid, on-demand access to information is a necessary facet of daily life in the present “age of communications.” The reliable communication links that society necessitates support person-to-person and device-to-device …
Decades before Google, Facebook and Amazon Web Services — all of which have invested billions of dollars in central Ohio — came along there was CompuServe, the first major online service that gave home computer users access to the internet and made the region the center of the tech world. Chat forums and bulletin boards, …