The Sunlight Foundation released a study on the FCC Open Internet comments this week. What did they find? An overwhelming majority of the public is in favor of Net Neutrality, unsurprisingly.
This summer there has been a cascade of disclosures from technology companies, starting after Google revealed its workforce diversity statistics. So how do they stack up?
Samsung officially unveiled the Galaxy Note 4 on Wednesday in Berlin, Germany prior to the start of the IFA Berlin electronics show. While the Galaxy Note 4 is mostly an upgrade to its predecessor, one promising accessory may make the Note 4 the first device in a mobile VR revolution.
After a nearly two-day investigation into the celebrity iCloud photo hacking, Apple has concluded that none of its systems were to blame, saying that the high-profile accounts in question were simply compromised by a hacking attack described as "all too common on the Internet."
Just as hackers from the Internet forum 4Chan were reportedly using a possibly major vulnerability in Apple's iCloud system to leak private nude photos of celebrities, a somewhat distantly-related hacking group in Latin America have been using their skills to shake up politics in Peru in a major way.
In this week's Tap That App, we take a look at a new video capture app from Instagram called Hyperlapse. You might be understandably skeptical if you haven't heard of it yet, because who needs yet another image capture app from Instagram? Trust us: you and everyone you know will want Hyperlapse.
This week in social media, we learned that messaging giant WhatsApp has hit a new milestone in active monthly users. Meanwhile, Twitter opened its analytics to everyone, Snapchat might officially be worth $10 billion, Facebook is expanding Graph Search, and Instagram unleashed an amazing app.
This summer is a landmark period for the evolving Internet in the U.S., with new Open Internet rules being considered by the FCC and a couple of big media mergers being debated. Recently, a few new arguments against the biggest merger on the table -- that of Comcast, the nation's largest cable provider, to the second largest, Time Warner Cable -- have emerged from Dish Network, Netflix, and the response to an Internet outage.
On Thursday, invitations were sent to select members of the press for a special event at the Flint Center for the Performing Arts in Cupertino, California on September 9. With the tagline "Wish we could say more," what's Apple hinting at?
This week in social media, Twitter continued to wrestle with disturbing user content, the European privacy lawsuit against Facebook takes its first big step, and Vine finally opened up its video service in a big way.
Amazon's first smartphone, the Fire Phone, was released about a month ago, after a long run-up of rumors, leaks, and elapsed possible release dates. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos described the new device as putting "everything you love about Amazon in the palm of your hand," and he was telling the truth -- or at least half of it. In reality, the Fire Phone puts everything you love and hate about Amazon right up front.
Snapchat may not just be for sending your friends quick quirky messages that disappear after a few seconds. The skyrocketing social media site could soon ad advertisements, along with TV and movie clips and news.
This week's Tap That App is all about your life online, and how quickly to protect it from all crashing down at once. It's Tap That App's password manager special!
The U.S. Federal Communication Commission decided it would continue to accept comments on its Open Internet rules until September 15, which gives the public a little more time to submit their opinion on whether or not the new proposed framework does enough to protect a free and open Internet.
This week in social media, people are still complaining about the Facebook Messenger app, Snapchat is battling for the right to keep its "tap to hold" video capture feature, and we saw the power and problems of Twitter (and for that matter social media) in the Ferguson shooting and Robin Williams' death.
Now that phone unlocking is legal once again, you might be wondering how it affects you, and what exactly you can do now. It's actually quite complicated, so here's a rundown of what's changed, and how you can take advantage of unlocking.
It seems Internet vigilantism didn't die after Reddit's Boston bombing-obsessed users pointed its fingers at an innocent student who was later discovered dead. This time it's the hacktivist group Anonymous publically pointing the finger at a person who may or may not have been the police officer who fatally shot Michael Brown in Ferguson Missouri.
The public response to the Federal Communications Commission's open comment period for its controversial reformulation of its formerly Net Neutrality-friendly Open Internet rules has been huge -- the highest ever for an FCC policy procedure. Now one analysis of the comments shows the vast majority were pro-Net Neutrality. And there were so few unique "anti" comments, they don't even register on the analysis' infographic.
Late last week, the Federal Communications Commission announced it was going to do a series of roundtable discussions about the Open Internet. It would be hosted in the FCC's Washington D.C. offices and streamed on the Internet. Now Senator Patrick Leahy is telling the FCC that's not enough.
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden discussed more details about the National Security Agency's past and plans with Wired, revealing that the U.S. was (inadvertently) behind a famous take-down of Syria's Internet and is planning on creating a fully-autonomous program for cyberdefense. Snowden promised that more revelations are still yet to be unearthed from his document trove, which could include a "smoking gun."
Who would have thought the Singularity could happen as a side effect of Siri's difficulty booking a table at a restaurant for the next free night on your schedule. It might, as Apple's next virtual assistant Viv may be able to "teach" itself to perform new tasks, eventually making itself smarter and smarter -- more like the AI depicted in "Her" and less like a simple voice-activated program.
Foursquare has finally released its upgraded namesake app, after announcing earlier this summer it was splitting its popular location-based social media service into two separate apps. The new Foursquare comes with a completely new look, and some cool new features, provided you trust the company to protect a lot more of your location data.
