Weekly output: AT&T’s wireless backup to AT&T’s fiber, new Android features, court approves TikTok commercial ban

This year has only two full work weeks left and CES is only four weeks away–and somehow I have yet to get a cold call from a publicist about the annual gadget gathering in Las Vegas. I’m sure that I just jinxed myself with that last statement.

12/2/2024: AT&T Rolls Out Free ‘Internet Backup’ Wireless Service for Fiber Customers, PCMag

I’m pretty sure that the only times our Verizon Fios fiber-optic connection has dropped since we had it set up in 2010 involved power outages, so I used some of this post to remind readers that AT&T fiber subscribers probably won’t ever need this backup connectivity.

12/5/2024: Latest Android Feature Drop Upgrades Speech to Text, Images to Words, More, PCMag

Of all the features in this latest round of Android feature updates, the QR code media-sharing shortcut seems like the one I’ll use most often.

12/6/2024: Appeals Court Sides With US Government on Pending TikTok Commercial Ban, PCMag

I hadn’t planned on spending half of Friday writing up the opinion from that Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that agreed with most of the government’s arguments about the need to impose a ban on app-store and Internet-hosting transactions with TikTok, but I did know that a court ruling was coming at some point, and at least this one landed on a day that allowed me some time to digest it.

#AndroidFeatureDrop #ATTFiber #ATTInternetBackup #ChinaSpying #ChineseSocialMedia #fiberBroadband #PixelDrop #TikTok #TikTokBan #TikTokCourtRuling

I’m off this week but this happened. Could be an interesting turning point for open access networks in the US if successful. #broadband #internet #fiberbroadband

https://www.fiercetelecom.com/broadband/att-blackrock-joint-venture-builds-wholesale-fiber-network