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Mobile advertiser tracked users' locations, without their consent, FTC alleges

Network World

One major mobile advertiser allegedly did just that. The motive: to serve location-based ads over mobile apps. InMobi is headquartered in India and partners with thousands of apps to offer advertising. The privacy settings on your phone don’t mean much if tech companies choose to ignore them. billion devices.

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T-Mobile uses Super Bowl ad to officially launch public beta of satellite-to-cell texting via Starlink

GeekWire

T-Mobile’s Super Bowl commercial highlights its partnership with SpaceX’s Starlink satellite network. T-Mobile is using Super Bowl LIX to kick off a new kind of air attack on wireless dead zones across the U.S. Further information about registration for the beta test is available via T-Mobile’s website.

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BGP: What is border gateway protocol, and how does it work?

Network World

In the latter case, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), the routing protocol used by the global internet, is used to find the best path by weighing the latest network conditions based on reachability and routing information. One comparison likens BGP to GPS applications on mobile phones. What is Border Gateway Protocol?

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The global state of the mobile industry

Trends in the Living Networks

There is a lot to digest in the 65 slides of the presentation, so I thought it was worth pulling out some of the more interesting ones on mobile. Below is the full presentation, plus six charts giving insights into the state of the global mobile industry. KPCB Internet Trends (2011). I find this particularly interesting.

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Fantastic international comparative data on media, social media, and mobile

Trends in the Living Networks

The countries with the highest proportion of newspaper advertising revenue are Ireland, Sweden, India, Germany, China. UK followed by Northern Europe leads in the share of Internet advertising revenue, though China comes in at a very strong 13% (I question this figure) and Russia at 12%. Australia is just ahead on tablet usage.

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Verizon suspends Facebook advertising as boycott grows

Venture Beat

Verizon is pausing advertising on Facebook in support of a campaign that called out the social network for not doing enough to stop hate speech. Read More.

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Vodafone mobilises against fake news and hate speech

Computer Weekly

Mobile network operator has introduced new global rules to prevent its advertising from appearing on outlets that create and share hate speech and fake news