#attfiber — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #attfiber, aggregated by home.social.
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Weekly output: Trump’s TikTok reprieve, Android + Samsung Galaxy S25 series, ISP performance, Android 16
For a little while Sunday afternoon, I thought I might have a home-team rooting interest in the Super Bowl for the first time in my post-collegiate life–but the Washington Commanders’ improbable renaissance season, one that somehow got me to appreciate pro football a little more, ended with a 55-23 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles in the NFC championship game.
1/21/2025: Trump Executive Order Hits 75-Day Pause Button on TikTok Ban, PCMag
I made sure this post included the most important bit of context in any story about privacy fears over TikTok: the continued, pathetic failure of Congress to pass a comprehensive privacy bill.
1/22/2025: Google Adds AI Shortcuts, Lock-Screen Updates, More to Galaxy S25 Series, PCMag
The context I made sure to add to this post: Samsung’s flavor of Android still isn’t getting the Hold for Me feature that I frequently rely on when calling customer-service lines from any of the Pixel-series phones I’ve used.
1/23/2025: What’s the Fastest Wireless Network in the US?, PCMag
I wish Ookla–owned by PCMag’s parent company Ziff Davis–would provide more clarity about how it factors upload speeds into its speed ratings. I would also like to see them stop treating AT&T Fiber as a separate service while lumping Verizon’s Fios in with slower residential services.
1/23/2025: Google Ships First Beta of Android 16: Here’s What You Get, PCMag
Google PR gave me a heads-up about this announcement only the afternoon before, but I’ve now had more than enough practice at summarizing release notes for upcoming Android developer-preview and beta releases.
#Android15 #Android16 #ATTFiber #GalaxyS25 #Ookla #SamsungUnpacked #Speedtest #TMobile5G #TikTok #TikTokBan #TrumpExecutiveOrder #WashingtonCommanders
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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
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Sunday started with Joe Biden as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee and is ending with Kamala Harris as the increasingly likely Democratic presidential nominee. I am struck by the selflessness involved in somebody at the apex of political power assessing the circumstances and the stakes and deciding that they require taking himself out of contention–and how well that grace, however grudgingly it may have come, compares to Donald Trump’s incessant self-worship. As Tom Nichols writes in The Atlantic: “Biden’s decision reflected a determination to put the fate of his country ahead of his personal vanity, a choice Trump is inherently incapable of making.”
7/15/2024: Automation Lessens Zombie Account Risks, FedTech
I last wrote for this publication in 2017, but I must have left a decent reputation there for an editor to e-mail me in April to ask if I could do a story about how government-IT types can ease staff transitions between administrations.
7/17/2024: Boost Mobile Unwraps New Plans As 5G Network Buildout Chugs Along, PCMag
We had to correct this post because I had missed how Boost’s most expensive plan does not include mobile hotspot use, even though two of its three cheaper options include it. Which is a dumb pricing game for any wireless carrier to play, but especially one that touts “simplified pricing” in its pitch for its new plans.
7/17/2024: On Speed, T-Mobile Is First in Mobile Broadband, AT&T in Home Internet, PCMag
Ookla, the company behind the Speedtest family of apps, offered me an advance on their latest connectivity report. I’m still confused by how they assessed only AT&T’s fiber service next to all of Verizon’s broadband options.
7/18/2024: Google Ships Fourth And (We Hope) Last Android 15 Beta, PCMag
This was the fifth time this year that I’ve written a short post about an incremental step in Android 15’s development cycle for PCMag.
7/19/2024: Prior to Microsoft Meltdown, CrowdStrike Exec Warned of ‘Single Point of Failure’, PCMag
As I read about the worldwide IT meltdown sparked by CrowdStrike’s epic failure of a driver update, I remembered seeing a CrowdStrike executive declaring at a Washington Post event in early June that “A resilient digital architecture should be able to weather a storm.” Awkward!
Patreon readers got a bonus post related to this story, in which I recounted the continuing utility of keeping notes in a searchable digital format but also revealed that I still have paper notepads from more than 25 years ago–and recently got some unexpected use out of one.
7/19/2024: Ep 103 SmartTechCheck Podcast–CrowdStrike, innovation drought, foldable phones and robotaxis, Mark Vena
I joined my industry-analyst friend’s podcast to talk about a grab-bag of tech topics, one of them being Waymo’s robotaxis as I experienced them in Los Angeles a few weeks ago.
#5G #Android15 #ATTFiber #BoostMobile #CrowdStrike #federalIT #MarkVena #Ookla #Speedtest #TMobile #wirelessCarriers #zombieAccounts
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Sunday started with Joe Biden as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee and is ending with Kamala Harris as the increasingly likely Democratic presidential nominee. I am struck by the selflessness involved in somebody at the apex of political power assessing the circumstances and the stakes and deciding that they require taking himself out of contention–and how well that grace, however grudgingly it may have come, compares to Donald Trump’s incessant self-worship. As Tom Nichols writes in The Atlantic: “Biden’s decision reflected a determination to put the fate of his country ahead of his personal vanity, a choice Trump is inherently incapable of making.”
7/15/2024: Automation Lessens Zombie Account Risks, FedTech
I last wrote for this publication in 2017, but I must have left a decent reputation there for an editor to e-mail me in April to ask if I could do a story about how government-IT types can ease staff transitions between administrations.
7/17/2024: Boost Mobile Unwraps New Plans As 5G Network Buildout Chugs Along, PCMag
We had to correct this post because I had missed how Boost’s most expensive plan does not include mobile hotspot use, even though two of its three cheaper options include it. Which is a dumb pricing game for any wireless carrier to play, but especially one that touts “simplified pricing” in its pitch for its new plans.
7/17/2024: On Speed, T-Mobile Is First in Mobile Broadband, AT&T in Home Internet, PCMag
Ookla, the company behind the Speedtest family of apps, offered me an advance on their latest connectivity report. I’m still confused by how they assessed only AT&T’s fiber service next to all of Verizon’s broadband options.
7/18/2024: Google Ships Fourth And (We Hope) Last Android 15 Beta, PCMag
This was the fifth time this year that I’ve written a short post about an incremental step in Android 15’s development cycle for PCMag.
7/19/2024: Prior to Microsoft Meltdown, CrowdStrike Exec Warned of ‘Single Point of Failure’, PCMag
As I read about the worldwide IT meltdown sparked by CrowdStrike’s epic failure of a driver update, I remembered seeing a CrowdStrike executive declaring at a Washington Post event in early June that “A resilient digital architecture should be able to weather a storm.” Awkward!
Patreon readers got a bonus post related to this story, in which I recounted the continuing utility of keeping notes in a searchable digital format but also revealed that I still have paper notepads from more than 25 years ago–and recently got some unexpected use out of one.
7/19/2024: Ep 103 SmartTechCheck Podcast–CrowdStrike, innovation drought, foldable phones and robotaxis, Mark Vena
I joined my industry-analyst friend’s podcast to talk about a grab-bag of tech topics, one of them being Waymo’s robotaxis as I experienced them in Los Angeles a few weeks ago.
#5G #Android15 #ATTFiber #BoostMobile #CrowdStrike #federalIT #MarkVena #Ookla #Speedtest #TMobile #wirelessCarriers #zombieAccounts
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Sunday started with Joe Biden as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee and is ending with Kamala Harris as the increasingly likely Democratic presidential nominee. I am struck by the selflessness involved in somebody at the apex of political power assessing the circumstances and the stakes and deciding that they require taking himself out of contention–and how well that grace, however grudgingly it may have come, compares to Donald Trump’s incessant self-worship. As Tom Nichols writes in The Atlantic: “Biden’s decision reflected a determination to put the fate of his country ahead of his personal vanity, a choice Trump is inherently incapable of making.”
7/15/2024: Automation Lessens Zombie Account Risks, FedTech
I last wrote for this publication in 2017, but I must have left a decent reputation there for an editor to e-mail me in April to ask if I could do a story about how government-IT types can ease staff transitions between administrations.
7/17/2024: Boost Mobile Unwraps New Plans As 5G Network Buildout Chugs Along, PCMag
We had to correct this post because I had missed how Boost’s most expensive plan does not include mobile hotspot use, even though two of its three cheaper options include it. Which is a dumb pricing game for any wireless carrier to play, but especially one that touts “simplified pricing” in its pitch for its new plans.
7/17/2024: On Speed, T-Mobile Is First in Mobile Broadband, AT&T in Home Internet, PCMag
Ookla, the company behind the Speedtest family of apps, offered me an advance on their latest connectivity report. I’m still confused by how they assessed only AT&T’s fiber service next to all of Verizon’s broadband options.
7/18/2024: Google Ships Fourth And (We Hope) Last Android 15 Beta, PCMag
This was the fifth time this year that I’ve written a short post about an incremental step in Android 15’s development cycle for PCMag.
7/19/2024: Prior to Microsoft Meltdown, CrowdStrike Exec Warned of ‘Single Point of Failure’, PCMag
As I read about the worldwide IT meltdown sparked by CrowdStrike’s epic failure of a driver update, I remembered seeing a CrowdStrike executive declaring at a Washington Post event in early June that “A resilient digital architecture should be able to weather a storm.” Awkward!
Patreon readers got a bonus post related to this story, in which I recounted the continuing utility of keeping notes in a searchable digital format but also revealed that I still have paper notepads from more than 25 years ago–and recently got some unexpected use out of one.
7/19/2024: Ep 103 SmartTechCheck Podcast–CrowdStrike, innovation drought, foldable phones and robotaxis, Mark Vena
I joined my industry-analyst friend’s podcast to talk about a grab-bag of tech topics, one of them being Waymo’s robotaxis as I experienced them in Los Angeles a few weeks ago.
#5G #Android15 #ATTFiber #BoostMobile #CrowdStrike #federalIT #MarkVena #Ookla #Speedtest #TMobile #wirelessCarriers #zombieAccounts