Category Archive for "Internet"

Yahoo announced today that it has abandoned a plan to spin off its $31 billion stake in Alibaba, a popular Chinese e-commerce company, and would instead spin off all of its other assets into a new company. The move is…

One thing you can say for traditional broadcast media: They scale really well. If you put an analog signal on the air or on a wire with enough repeaters and amplifiers, it will serve every client that connects. That’s not…

The FCC’s Net neutrality rules go on trial Friday as oral arguments begin in 10 lawsuits that could dramatically change the way Internet service providers are regulated. In February, the Federal Communications Commission voted to ban service providers from giving…

Two years ago, Evernote shocked the world when the company began selling a whole smorgasbord of physical products. Some of them made sense, like a stylus that worked with Evernote’s app and a scanner that pulled documents into the note-taking…

A little more than a year ago, I urged manufacturing companies testing the IoT waters to leave the work of bringing Internet connectivity to their traditionally unconnected products to those who understand what’s at stake. I’m not alone in my concerns…

Reddit has decided to honor ‘Do Not Track,’ a feature that will ensure that it does not download third-party analytics on to browsers that enable the option. The DNT option allows users to ask their browser to send websites they…

Tick. Tick. Tick. Clang! That was the sound of an intergovernmental conference kicking the leap-second can down the road. Sysadmins will be dealing with the consequences for the next eight years. Just as adding an extra day in leap years…

Details of the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) agreement were finally released late last week following a secretive, seven-year negotiating process. The purported trade deal’s 6,194 pages of mind-numbing legalese actually cover a wide range of policy questions that have little to…

One month after signing the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, the U.S. and New Zealand governments have published the full trade treaty, including details of what ISPs must do to defend others’ copyrights. The deal sets out to reshape trade relations between…

Mozilla’s Firefox, returning to a multi-month cycle of user share losses, is again flirting with the dangerous 10 percent milestone, according to data from analytics company Net Applications. In October, Firefox’s user share rang in at 11.3 percent, Net Applications…