News
2019
August
31
- How to complain and get results. To breach the walls and successfully resolve your complaint, you must use the three p’s: patience, persistence and politeness. Don’t expect an instant fix, and give the company’s complaint
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- Student allegedly denied U.S. entry over friends' social media. Ismail B. Ajjawi touched down at Boston Logan International Airport on Friday night, prepared to begin his freshman year at Harvard University. The 17-year-old Palestinian student never left the airport. The Harvard Crimson reported that
- Apple pondrá fin a práctica predeterminada de guardar grabaciones de Siri. Apple Inc dijo el miércoles que terminará su práctica de mantener las grabaciones de audio de las solicitudes que sus usuarios hacen a su asistente personal Siri, activada de f
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- Piratas informáticos podrían haber accedido a información de un programa antiterrorismo durante años. El Departamento de Seguridad Nacional almacenó datos confidenciales del programa de defensa de bioterrorismo de la nación en un sitio web inseguro, donde fue vulnerable a los ataques de piratas informá
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- El misterio de las expulsiones de usuarios en Facebook. Durante una década, Cristopher Reeves, quien trabaja como conductor de Uber en Seattle, usó Facebook para hacerlo todo: hablar con amigos, comunicarse con colegas o conocer a parejas potenciales.
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- Major phone service providers agree to plan to slow robocallers. Verizon, AT&T, Comcast and nine other phone service providers reached a deal with 51 attorneys general across the country to install call-blocking technology. But the deal doesn’t have a deadline.
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- El ‘software malicioso’ está en todas partes, incluso en esta pequeña ciudad de Texas. Cuando un ataque de software malicioso llamado ransomware golpeó a Keene, Texas, nadie se dio cuenta.
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- Why aren't older people using Lyft and Uber?. Seniors need transportation alternatives more than ever, but many are intimidated by ride-hailing apps.
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- I shared my phone number. I learned I shouldn't have. Our mobile phone numbers have become permanently attached to us because we rarely change them, porting them from job to job and place to place. In fact, your phone number may have now become an
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- Instagram is changing the way people buy things. In March, Instagram introduced a new checkout option that allows customers to purchase products directly off a handful of companies' pages within its app. Instagram has also added tools that allow customers to shop items
- A guide to picking the right phone plan. Let’s make one thing clear: You can’t beat the house. Telecommunications is one of the world’s most lucrative industries, and wireless carriers will turn a profit no matter what.
July
27
- Nuevo choque de Trump con Macron. Francia está impulsando la adopción de un impuesto histórico a empresas tecnológicas como Google y Facebook, a pesar de las amenazas del presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump,
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- House passes anti-robocall bill. The House on Wednesday took a major step toward cracking down on illegal robocalls by passing legislation allowing for tougher penalties against the scammers who generate billions of unwanted calls
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- Your college major may affect your ability to get a loan. When students choose where to attend college and what subject to major in, they can expect those decisions to have an impact on certain aspects of their life, like their career or earnings. But if
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- FTC orders Facebook to add oversight of data practices. Facebook on Wednesday was ordered to create new layers of oversight for its collection and handling of users’ personal data by the Federal Trade Commission, as the agency detailed a privacy settlement with the
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- Las grandes economías recelan de la moneda de Facebook. Los ministros de finanzas del Grupo de las Siete democracias más ricas del mundo advirtieron el jueves que criptomonedas como Libra de Facebook no deberían entrar en circulación hasta
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- UE investiga cómo utiliza Amazon los datos de vendedores. La Unión Europea abrió un nuevo frente en su campaña para regular las grandes empresas tecnológicas al informar el miércoles que investiga si Amazon utiliza datos
- Congreso de EEUU cuestiona a compañías tecnológicas. Las grandes compañías tecnológicas enfrentaron duros cuestionamientos esta semana al enfocarse los legisladores federales en un posible comportamiento anticompetitivo y expresar su escepticismo bipartidista respecto al plan de Facebook de
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- T-Mobile says it can't be sued by users. T-Mobile is already facing a class-action lawsuit that's making its way through the court system to hold the company accountable for its behavior. There's just one problem: the mobile carrier says that if
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- FTC approves Facebook fine of about $5 billion. The Federal Trade Commission has approved a fine of roughly $5 billion against Facebook for mishandling users’ personal information, according to three people briefed on the vote, in what would be a landmark settlement that
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