Nvidia 8-inch Tegra X1 Shield tablet appears in FCC filing
Published in Mobiles


Scores 134,000 in AnTuTu benchmark, over 3x higher than Tegra K1


On Wednesday, a new Nvidia filing with the FCC surfaced online that shows a new 8-inch device closely resembling the current Shield and Shield K1 tablets based on Kepler GK20A GPUs. The tablet was filed as an application for “SHIELD Tablet” and is expected to feature Nvidia’s newer Maxwell-based GM20B GPU and is based on the Tegra X1 chip, complete with Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow.

Verizon gets fined for secretly tracking customers without opt-out
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Violated FCC's Open Internet Transparency Rule

In 2014 and 2015, Verizon was found secretly inserting a small piece of web code into all mobile web traffic to track its customers for advertisement purposes. The so-called “supercookies” were unavoidable, with no way to opt-out, even if customers opted out of advertisements. As of this week, the wireless giant finally had the case settled in court at the tune of a rather small $1.35 million fine by the FCC.

FCC now lets Americans use their own cable set-top boxes
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A powerful win for the free market economics

In a sweeping change of course directed at a tightly controlled television industry, cable and satellite operators in the United States will now be obligated to let their customers freely choose which set-top boxes they can use, according to a proposal announced by the Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday.

Comcast faces off with the FCC again
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Monday, 16 March 2015 16:33

Comcast faces off with the FCC again


Big purchase on hold

US telco Comcast is once again trying to show the US telecoms watchdog the FCC that it is a toothless wonder.

Come up with net neutrality laws you lazy gits

Monday, 16 June 2014 11:58

FCC steps into Verizon and Netflix row

This will end badly for Netflix

Surprised that people think otherwise

Monday, 09 September 2013 14:48

Tegra 4 Tab shows up at FCC



Still with mediocre 7-inch 1280x800 screen

Friday, 06 September 2013 09:54

Nexus 5 specs revealed in FCC filing

5-inch screen, LTE, Qualcomm 800

Wednesday, 01 May 2013 09:50

Obama gives FCC to cable industry



Lobbyist tapped to become regulator