Rob Pegoraro<p><strong>Weekly output: AT&T’s wireless backup to AT&T’s fiber, new Android features, court approves TikTok commercial ban</strong></p><p><span>This year has only two full work weeks left and <a href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/ces/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">CES</a> is only four weeks away–and somehow I have yet to get <a href="https://robpegoraro.com/2019/12/21/its-not-the-most-wonderful-week-of-the-year/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">a cold call from a publicist</a> about the annual gadget gathering in Las Vegas. I’m sure that I just jinxed myself with that last statement.</span></p><p><span>12/2/2024: </span><a href="https://www.pcmag.com/news/att-rolls-out-free-internet-backup-wireless-service-for-fiber-customers" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">AT&T Rolls Out Free ‘Internet Backup’ Wireless Service for Fiber Customers</a><span>, PCMag</span></p><p>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.</p><p>12/5/2024: <a href="https://www.pcmag.com/news/latest-android-feature-drop-upgrades-speech-to-text-images-to-words-more" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Latest Android Feature Drop Upgrades Speech to Text, Images to Words, More</a>, PCMag</p><p>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.</p><p>12/6/2024: <a href="https://www.pcmag.com/news/appeals-court-sides-with-us-government-on-pending-tiktok-commercial-ban" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Appeals Court Sides With US Government on Pending TikTok Commercial Ban</a>, PCMag</p><p>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.</p><p><span></span></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/android-feature-drop/" target="_blank">#AndroidFeatureDrop</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/att-fiber/" target="_blank">#ATTFiber</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/att-internet-backup/" target="_blank">#ATTInternetBackup</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/china-spying/" target="_blank">#ChinaSpying</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/chinese-social-media/" target="_blank">#ChineseSocialMedia</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/fiber-broadband/" target="_blank">#fiberBroadband</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/pixel-drop/" target="_blank">#PixelDrop</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/tiktok/" target="_blank">#TikTok</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/tiktok-ban/" target="_blank">#TikTokBan</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robpegoraro.com/tag/tiktok-court-ruling/" target="_blank">#TikTokCourtRuling</a></p>