U.S. border agents are increasingly asking travelers to provide access to phones and other electronic devices, which Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said happens only in critical circumstances and most searched are foreign visitors (see 1703170019). Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., responded during a Homeland Security Committee hearing Wednesday that he was troubled that some American citizens and mainly permanent residents are being told they can't enter the country unless they give access to their phones. New legislation aims to address the issue but some experts told us they are unclear about its chances.
U.S. border agents are increasingly asking travelers to provide access to phones and other electronic devices, which Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said happens only in critical circumstances and most searched are foreign visitors (see 1703170019). Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., responded during a Homeland Security Committee hearing Wednesday that he was troubled that some American citizens and mainly permanent residents are being told they can't enter the country unless they give access to their phones. New legislation aims to address the issue but some experts told us they are unclear about its chances.
HEVC Advance, the one-stop-shop patent pool to license technology under the H.265 platform (see 1504010051), scored the biggest coup in its two-year existence Wednesday when it announced landing Samsung as both a licensor and licensee.
CTIA is ready with asks for Congress on how to go beyond the Senate’s Mobile Now spectrum bill, Vice President-Regulatory Affairs Scott Bergmann plans to testify before the House Communications Subcommittee Wednesday. Chairman Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., also will outline ambitions to move spectrum legislation beyond what is in Mobile Now. This is the first time the lower chamber will directly consider S-19, a bipartisan package on both spectrum and broadband deployment. It has no precise House companion, and Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John Thune, R-S.D., is developing follow-up legislation that builds off the bill, putting together what one staffer called “Mobile Now Plus” ideas (see 1702210051).
The Trump administration appears increasingly likely to name a female economist to the open Republican slot on the FCC, industry officials said. Two names in particular have emerged -- Roslyn Layton, American Enterprise Institute scholar and member of the Trump FCC landing team, and Michelle Connolly, professor of economics at Duke University and former FCC chief economist under Republican Chairman Kevin Martin. Key senators Tuesday indicated no consensus formed around a single candidate.
The Trump administration appears increasingly likely to name a female economist to the open Republican slot on the FCC, industry officials said. Two names in particular have emerged -- Roslyn Layton, American Enterprise Institute scholar and member of the Trump FCC landing team, and Michelle Connolly, professor of economics at Duke University and former FCC chief economist under Republican Chairman Kevin Martin. Key senators Tuesday indicated no consensus formed around a single candidate.
Having landed three deals licensing the BlackBerry brand and intellectual property to smartphones shipped by other companies (see 1612200062), BlackBerry is “expanding to the next phase of our licensing program” that will “focus on a broader set of end points,” CEO John Chen said on a Friday earnings call. “What this might mean -- and I make no promise -- is that you may soon see a BlackBerry tablet.” Before the tablet can progress to the next stage of commercial reality, "we have to QA it, we have to do a lot of things with it, so it’s not a 100 percent-committed thing," Chen said of the quality assurance process. "It’s going to come from our partners.” not from BlackBerry itself, he said. He didn't identify the licensee that’s weighing the possible tablet introduction. With more than “100 million lines of software code in some of today’s vehicles, there’s a growing risk of security breaches and failures,” Chen said of connected cars.
Having landed three deals licensing the BlackBerry brand and intellectual property to smartphones shipped by other companies, including the agreement with TCL covering all major global markets (see 1612200062), BlackBerry is “now expanding to the next phase of our licensing program” that will “focus on a broader set of end points,” CEO John Chen said on a Friday earnings call. “What this might mean -- and I make no promise -- is that you may soon see a BlackBerry tablet.”
Having landed three deals licensing the BlackBerry brand and intellectual property to smartphones shipped by other companies, including the agreement with TCL covering all major global markets (see 1612200062), BlackBerry is “now expanding to the next phase of our licensing program” that will “focus on a broader set of end points,” CEO John Chen said on a Friday earnings call. “What this might mean -- and I make no promise -- is that you may soon see a BlackBerry tablet.”
CORONADO, Calif. -- OneVision Resources is pitching the custom integrator channel on a technical support strategy that could be the answer to its long-sought but elusive recurring revenue model, and it's banking on “the disconnected home” to make it happen. “If you consider that the connected home is a reality and that the Internet of Things is inevitable, then what’s also inevitable is the internet of broken things,” OneVision founder Joseph Kolchinsky told us at the Home Technology Specialists of America spring meeting.