---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20180412103822.GA7653@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 06:38:22 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: The World Is Full Of Good People One watches the nightly news or Facebook and the message is always the same. The world is in mass chaos. A friend recently told me she rarely turns on the TV because it was all bad news and there was little to be happy or encouraged about. "It's all about turmoil and anger and dying and hate and crisis after crisis," she said. "No news is better than that kind of mess." I couldn't agree more. And yet, I know there are good people out there doing good things, the right things, making their mark in the world and changing things for the better one little step at a time. http://www.yourglenrosetx.com/opinion/20180411/our-world-is-full-of-good-people -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20180412100618.GA7136@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 06:06:18 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Mozilla Organization reports on the health of the Internet You may know other Internet reports that look more squarely at industry trends and new technologies. This is not our goal. Working with researchers, digital rights activists, Mozilla fellows and our community, we tell a collaborative story of how the Internet is - and isn't - healthy from a human perspective. The Report draws on a wide body of existing research on issues ranging from privacy to connectivity, to online harassment and the economics of online platforms. https://internethealthreport.org/2018/introduction/readme/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20180412103017.GA7606@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 06:30:17 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Telco capex: AT&T, Verizon remain kings Telco capex: AT&T, Verizon remain kings, while CenturyLink, Frontier and Windstream adjust integration, cost-containment plans by Sean Buckley As the top five telcos look to complete network transitions via acquisitions and broadband expansion efforts, they have forecast varying 2018 carrier capital spending plans. In our latest capex report, FierceTelecom looked at the 2018 capital spending plans of the five largest telcos - AT&T, Verizon, CenturyLink, Frontier and Windstream - and compared 2018 forecasts to 2017 spending trends. https://www.fiercetelecom.com/telecom/telco-capex-at-t-verizon-remain-kings-while-centurylink-frontier-and-windstream-adjust -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <164EC281-D94E-4491-A2B9-8F6016AE79BE@roscom.com> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 23:46:10 -0400 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Daydreaming is the biggest cause of crashes, insurer says It's not the phone, it's you, Walter Mitty: Daydreaming is the biggest cause of crashes, insurer says But podcasts, word games and other mildly stimulating brain games can help, professor says. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/tripping/wp/2018/04/11/its-not-the-phone-its-you-walter-mitty-daydreaming-is-the-biggest-cause-of-crashes-insurer-says/ (Site has paywall) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <C66A8A88-93A7-4893-9D9A-766083C467F7@roscom.com> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 01:00:09 -0400 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: What You Don't Know About How Facebook Uses Your Data What You Don't Know About How Facebook Uses Your Data Facebook tracks even nonusers as they surf the web, and House members grilled Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, about the practice during his second day of hearings. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, went to Capitol Hill this week to explain to members of Congress how the detailed personal information of up to 87 million Facebook users ended up in the hands of a voter-profiling company called Cambridge Analytica. What Mr. Zuckerberg got instead, as he testified before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Wednesday, was a grilling about Facebook's own data-mining practices. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/11/technology/facebook-privacy-hearings.html ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Fri, 13 Apr 2018