Jailbreak / unlock hack of iPhone: ILLEGAL with Obama's TPP

	Richi Jennings: Jailbreak / unlock hack of iPhone: ILLEGAL with Obama's TPP | FCC chief pressures carriers on cellphone unlocking
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It's must-read before you take one more step down the path to UC. Learn More Richi Jennings: Jailbreak / unlock hack of iPhone: ILLEGAL with Obama's TPP Obama White House secretly caves to global corporations' treaty demands. The secret Trans-Pacific Partnership treaty (TPP) draft, leaked last week, appears to outlaw jailbreaking, and even carrier-unlocking. So your iPhone or other smartphone needs to stay locked to its carrier and your iPad or other iOS device needs to stay within Apple's family-friendly walled garden of pomaceous monetization. Amazingly, if ratified, this is said to have the force of international law, tying the hands of future constitutional democracies in North America and beyond. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers wonder if the tinfoil-hat-wearing, world-government-fearing oddballs were right all along. Read More   FCC chief pressures carriers on cellphone unlocking   The newly seated chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission has told mobile operators to voluntarily ease up on cellphone unlocking or risk being forced to do so. Read More     INSIDER 5 ways that BYOD is shaking up tech support Amid the clamor of "bring your own device" (BYOD), a question lurks in the background: "What happens to technical service and support?" Concerns for the tech support function encompass the extremes, from agents being overwhelmed with calls, to their becoming inhabitants of a help desk ghost town. Read More   Cisco issues grim forecast after falling short on revenue Cisco Systems stunned Wall Street on Wednesday with a gloomy financial forecast it blamed on falling demand in developing countries and transitions in some of its product lines. Read More   Alcatel-Lucent says focus on fast broadband, IP is key to comeback With its new-found focus on IP networking and fast broadband access, Alcatel-Lucent is poised to take advantage of a worldwide explosion in mobile devices and the rush of service providers and operators to the cloud, company executives said at the networking vendor's tech symposium this week. Read More   WEBCAST: VCE VCE Simplifies Core Infrastructure Implementation Servers were at capacity, power and cooling costs were escalating and disaster recovery from tape was unreliable. That's when the CTO of Purdue Pharma turned to VCE for a converged infrastructure solution that enabled them to avoid a data center expansion, save the organization millions of dollars and guarantee fast data recovery. View Now   INSIDER The wider implications of IBM's mobile buying spree   Consolidation will dominate the mobile market over the next couple of years. If your enterprise is using mobile technology from a small company, expect to have to upgrade. Insider (registration required) Read More   FCC app lets consumers check how mobile broadband providers stack up The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has released a smartphone app that will allow users to measure the speed of their mobile broadband connection while providing aggregate data to the agency for measuring nationwide mobile broadband network performance. Read More   Europe allows in-flight 3G and 4G broadband The European Commission gave airlines permission to offer their passengers Internet access via 3G and 4G connections so they can send emails and surf the Web while in flight. Read More   Sharky: Sometimes it's just better to start over This firm finally decides it really needs a fast Internet connection. Just one problem: Its offices are a century-old Chicago skyscraper that's an architectural beauty -- but it has brick walls that are six feet thick. Read More   Computerworld's holiday gift guide 2013: Smartphones, cases and more Part 3 of our annual offering of gift suggestions has recommendations for iPhones, Android phones and Windows phones; we also have a wide range of cool and useful add-ons. Read More
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