Today's TechFast: Mobile Subscribers Rise, Landlines Taking a Beating

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TMC's Techfast newsletter for Wednesday, November 19, 2014:

Ericsson Says Global Mobile Subscriptions Are on a Dramatic Rise

Ericsson has released its latest report, “Ericsson Mobility Report: On the Pulse of the Networked Society” and, essentially it shows that just about everything is on the way up.

Report: Ohio Telecoms Want To End Landline Rules

With the Net Neutrality issue, telecoms in Ohio are sensing an opportunity to get rid of old landline rules and instead go fully wireless. But that’s not sitting well with everyone.

Spam a Lot? Your Days are Numbered by New 'Caller ID' App

A new App allows users to see a spam score, a number of reports and comments from an online community that identifies incoming calls as suspected spam.

Cloud processing wars ramp up to the next level

Cloud infrastructure leader Amazon Web Services just got a star player on its team with Intel’s announcement that it has designed custom Xeon processors to power AWS’s new server instances.

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