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The FCC’s New Plan for Broadband (and Why Nobody’s Happy About It)

The FCC was told fairly bluntly it doesn’t have the power to mandate net neutrality. So! Time for a new plan. https://gizmodo.com/comcast-wins-we-lose-court-says-fcc-doesnt-have-the-p-5510831 The problem, as FCC Chairman Genachowski sees it, is that the FCC can keep trying to regulate stuff using indirect authority (which sucks because it doesn’t go far enough, as the chairman sees…

Tech News Matt Buchanan May 7

First Non-Latin Domains Now Live

Look closely at the URL field in this browser. It’s one of the new non-latin domain names, which are live now. [ICANN]

Tech News Jesus Diaz May 6

Apple’s Website Circa 1993

If you transported Apple’s website back to 1993, I have no doubt it would end up looking exactly like this. Especially that beige menubar. HyperCard, anyone? The mock-up is the work of RetroMacCast listener newtonpoetry, who’s really nailed the details—as he did in his re-imagining of Apple’s 1983 website. Just look at how magical and…

Tech News Brian Barrett May 6

The FCC Is Going to Leave Your ISP Alone

Somewhat conveniently following the court decision that says the FCC doesn’t have the power to enforce net neutrality, FCC Chairman Genananananapackachkowsi is expected to respond that he wants to leave broadband providers just the way are, in terms of regulatory stuff, but at the same time, slyly move to bring broadband services more under the…

Tech News Matt Buchanan May 4

The Chatroulette Speed Painter Animates the Weirdness

Behold the Chatroulette speed painter at work: armed with just a Wacom tablet and a preternatural drawing ability, he’s able to create incredible sketches of his chat partners in no time flat. And you thought the Chatroulette pianist was good. https://gizmodo.com/the-chatroulette-pianist-will-make-you-laugh-today-5494014 One shudders to think just how much naked ended up on the cutting room…

Tech News Brian Barrett Apr 29

The Best and Worst Hotel Wi-Fi

I’m not going to pretend HotelChatter’s chart works, so I’ll just point to their list of best hotel Wi-Fi (Holiday Inn for mega-chains) and worst (avoid mid-high-enders like DoubleTree). My hotel criteria? Waffle House proximity. [Hotel Chatter via Lifehacker] https://lifehacker.com/the-best-and-worst-hotels-for-wi-fi-2010-edition-5527086

Tech News Matt Buchanan Apr 29

T-Mobile Won’t Charge You for Using Too Much Data, But They Will Slow You the Hell Down

Instead of charging you overage fees for using more than 5GB of data in a month with one of its webConnect 3G data plans, T-Mobile’s just going to slow your internet down instead. A novel trade-off, though I’d prefer to choose whether I get hit with fees or slowdowns. Instead of overage charges, T-Mobile will…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Apr 28

Geocities-izer Transports Websites To the Halcyon Days of 1996

Geocities might be dead, but its spirit lives on. The Geocities-izer does you the enormous favor of transforming your favorite (or least) website into not just a Geocities page, but a really bad Geocities page. And my god, the music! https://gizmodo.com/geocities-is-dead-long-live-geocities-5389976 Here’s a taste of what Gizmodo looks like: I only wish I could also…

Tech News Brian Barrett Apr 27

How Much Less AT&T Is Sucking

Sure, sure, AT&T added another 1.9 million subscribers and activated 2.7 million new iPhones. But the most interesting slide in their earnings statement was the one detailing, statistically, how much less they suck. With graphs and stuff. The improvements are indeed caveat-loaded. Dropped 3G calls in Manhattan, one of AT&T’s admitted trouble spots, are down…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Apr 21

The Fastest Internet In the World? It’s In Berkeley

Just in case internet iPhone celebrity Jason Chen needed another reason to feel smug: his alma mater, Berkeley, has the highest internet speeds of any city on Earth. http://tv.gawker.com/5520655/complete-coverage-of-gizmodos-iphone-story-on-tv With the average speed at 18.7Mbps, Berkeley is top on Akamai’s list of worldwide data speeds. Second place is Chapel Hill, NC followed by Stanford, CA…

Tech News Adam Frucci Apr 20

Library of Congress To Acquire All Twitter Messages For Historical Record

Internet, your narcissism has been validated. The Library of Congress will archive all public tweets for historical purposes. Somewhere in the unfathomable future, a historian really, really cares that you had a Reuben for lunch today. [Physorg]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Apr 14

Comcast Wins, We Lose: Court Says FCC Doesn’t Have the Power to Enforce Net Neutrality

A federal appeals court just ruled on Comcast’s lawsuit to get the FCC’s p2p blocking ban overturned—that the FCC doesn’t have the power to tell Comcast, or any ISP, to be net neutral. Whoa. If you remember way back to 2008, Comcast got busted blocking BitTorrent, and the FCC told them to GTFO. Nerds cheered.…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Apr 6

Microsoft Attacks Google Chrome on Privacy

Click to viewMicrosoft has apparently decided that a good way to promote Internet Explorer 8 is by attacking Chrome over privacy concerns. Like, say, right here in this video. But something doesn’t add up. The claims, leveled by IE project manager Peter LePage, sound ominous: “As I start to type an address into the address…

Tech News Brian Barrett Mar 31

Are You Feeling AT&T’s 100 Day Plan to Fix Their Network?

Another iPhone, another round of AT&T promising it’ll be better this time. Honest! In fact, in December they started a 100-day plan to ” to dramatically improve the company’s network in densely-populated cities.” Are you feeling it yet? That was a rhetorical question. But since December, AT&T’s supposedly added new spectrum (a familiar line), pointed…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Mar 31

What If Adobe Flash Is Bundled With Google Chrome?

Curious, possibly weird: ZDNet editor-in-chief Larry Dignan says Adobe and Google are planning to announce tomorrow that they’re bundling Flash with Google’s “Chrome browser and or operating system.” I’m not sure how much it move would really change the current Flash/no-Flash internet calculus, since Chrome still has just a tiny (but growing) portion of the…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Mar 29

How the iPad Is Already Reshaping the Internet (Without Flash)

The iPad doesn’t run Flash. If your website uses Flash, it won’t play well on the iPad. Turns out, a lot of people want their sites to look pretty on the iPad. So the internet’s already starting to look different. One of the more interesting effects of the iPhone was that it drove a ton…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Mar 29

Check the Hype — There’s No Such Thing As ‘Cyber’

How can you tell the difference between a real report about online vulnerabilities and someone who’s trying to scare you about the security of the internet because they have an agenda, such as landing lucrative, secret contracts from the government? Here’s a simple test: Count the number of times they use the adjective “cyber.” Nobody…

io9 Ryan Singel - Threat Level Mar 27

Verizon’s FiOS Rollout Drawing To a Close

Fiber optics. It sounds fast (it is). But it also sounds expensive (it is). So expensive, it turns out, that Verizon has announced that it’s winding down expansion of its FiOS network. It will keep plugging away in markets that it has already announced—Philly, New York City, and D.C., chiefly—but it won’t be looking at…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Mar 27

Endangered Species Face A New Most Dangerous Threat: The Internet!

The internet is famous for bringing people together. But some of those people include poachers and rare animal collectors, fueling a resurgence in the illegal wildlife trade. The internet’s effect on the trade of endangered wildlife was one of the biggest issues discussed at the recent meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Mar 23

Will Google Leave China Because Of Hacking And Censorship?

Google will likely be pulling the plug on Google.cn by the end of the month. According to the web search giant, China’s stringent censorship and the hacking of Gmail accounts have driven Google to relinquish 35.6% of China’s search market. Even though the Chinese search engine Baidu’s 58.6% share of Chinese searches eclipses Google’s 35.6%…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 21

The FCC’s New Plan for Broadband (and Why Nobody’s Happy About It)

First Non-Latin Domains Now Live

Apple’s Website Circa 1993

The FCC Is Going to Leave Your ISP Alone

The Chatroulette Speed Painter Animates the Weirdness

The Best and Worst Hotel Wi-Fi

T-Mobile Won’t Charge You for Using Too Much Data, But They Will Slow You the Hell Down

Geocities-izer Transports Websites To the Halcyon Days of 1996

How Much Less AT&T Is Sucking

The Fastest Internet In the World? It’s In Berkeley

Library of Congress To Acquire All Twitter Messages For Historical Record

Comcast Wins, We Lose: Court Says FCC Doesn’t Have the Power to Enforce Net Neutrality

Microsoft Attacks Google Chrome on Privacy

Are You Feeling AT&T’s 100 Day Plan to Fix Their Network?

What If Adobe Flash Is Bundled With Google Chrome?

How the iPad Is Already Reshaping the Internet (Without Flash)

Check the Hype — There’s No Such Thing As ‘Cyber’

Verizon’s FiOS Rollout Drawing To a Close

Endangered Species Face A New Most Dangerous Threat: The Internet!

Will Google Leave China Because Of Hacking And Censorship?

Anker’s Soundcore Translation Earbuds Are Now Nearly 7x Cheaper Than AirPods Pro 3 After a Sudden Price Drop on Amazon

Volkswagen Shuts Down Tennessee Plant’s EV Production at the Worst Possible Time

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