By Adriana Lee |
An open letter to Facebook recently put the company under fire for turning a blind eye to the misogynistic hate speech taking up residence on its network. The letter — a collaboration between groups Women, Action, & The Media, and the Everyday Sexism Project, along…
By Brandon Russell |
Google’s gradual Fiber rollout has kicked off a gigabit revolution, opening up more widespread access in the small town backyards of America. Following news Vermont would receive gigabit coverage from provider VTel, Internet service provider CenturyLink announced plans on Wednesday to bring gigabit Internet to…
By Brandon Russell |
One company based in Vermont, known as VTel, is offering residents gigabit Internet service for just $35 a month later this year. Forgot Google Fiber and its sedate, steady approach—the local provider is beating the search giant to the punch, with cost by undercutting Google…
By Adriana Lee |
Hoping your town or city will join Kansas City and Austin, and become the proud hosts of Google Fiber? Well, I hate being the bearer of bad news, but the chances of that happening are not very good. Not that it doesn’t make sense, at…
By Brandon Russell |
Jon R. is back with an all new show where he rants and raves on various topics in and out of the tech world. On this week’s episode, Jon rants about the chaotic and unstoppable comment wars that breakout on TechnoBuffalo and elsewhere on the…
By Adriana Lee |
Life is hard. There are deadlines. Irritating customers, clients, co-workers. Someone’s always trying to sell you something (or scam you out of something). Your girlfriend or boyfriend just dumped you. And your parent/boss/teacher rides you like you’ve got a target on your back. Oh, what…
By Adriana Lee |
Imagine minding your own business, waiting for an elevator to open up, when the doors pull back to reveal a strange man choking a victim. What would you do? Scream? Run? Call 911? All of those reactions are very natural, judging by what happened when…
By Sean P. Aune |
Leave it to the Internet to bring its obsession with cats to the classic board game of Monopoly. Hasbro, the published or the Monopoly board game, started a campaign last month on its Facebook page to vote out one of the old game pieces and introduce a…
By Maximum PC |
Mozilla comments on what they got right in 2012. In terms of market share, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome have been trading blows, angling for the coveted second place title all year. Firefox has continued to decline, but loses on all sides are leveling out, and Chrome isn’t seeing the…
By Roy Choi |
Thursday a coalition of mostly Western nations refused to sign a new United Nations telecoms treaty. The 193-nation meeting in Dubai covered an array of telecommunications topics including Internet censorship, Internet fraud, spam, transparency on mobile phone charges, and internationally emergency phone number for mobile…
By Brandon Russell |
The Internet can sometimes be a nasty, boiling cesspool of hate, anger and bigotry. Nothing is off limits, anything goes—for some reason, people get a thrill from acting like reprehensible zealots, whether it be in “defense” of a particular brand, cause, or just because. At…
By Todd Haselton |
Renesys, the “Internet intelligence authority” reported this morning that Syria’s Internet has been completely shut down. There isn’t any data traffic coming in or out of the country, which is a terribly frightening thought, especially because it’s what helps the world keep, in some ways,…
By Todd Haselton |
Wireless Internet and broadband provider ICOA just announced that it has been acquired by Google for $400 million. ICOA describes itself as a company that provides “Wi-Fi to high traffic public locations” and is a “leading vertically integrated, neutral-host broadband wireless Internet network provider.” ICOA…
By Roy Choi |
A federal court in Pittsburgh ruled that police may track Internet moochers without a warrant. The ruling reaffirms that Internet subscribers have no “reasonable expectation” of privacy in regards to IP addresses. This case however varies in that the case is against those that “steal”…
By Adriana Lee |
We all want faster Internet. No matter how many promises of blazing speeds our providers give us, it never seems like enough. But did you know that some basic algebra can help give wireless networks a boost and clear those clogged pipes, all without any…
By Maximum PC |
Look, we’re not trying to spark a religious debate here, and if Jesus is your co-pilot, that’s wonderful. But turning to ‘Jesus’ to secure your logins is about as ineffective as protecting your accounts with ‘Ninja’, which also appears on SplashData’s“Worst Passwords of 2012.” The self-explanatory…
By Adriana Lee |
Being confined to an Ecuadorean embassy in London hasn’t stopped Julian Assange, founder of the infamous WikiLeaks, from playing his part in “the resistance.” Not only does he broadcast a TV show called The World Tomorrow, a program for Russian channel RT, but he’s also…
By Killian Bell |
Samsung has struck a deal with Spotify that makes it the first manufacturer to bring the music streaming service to its Smart TVs and Blu-ray players. An official Spotify app will launch later this year, giving Premium subscribers instant access to more than 18 million…
By Adriana Lee |
Good news for travelers who need to stay connected en route: According to an internal company email acquired by The Verge, JetBlue is reportedly planning to unveil high-speed wireless Internet access early next year. Unlike several of its competitors, the airline won’t be hitting up…
By Maximum PC |
Verizon FiOS customers don’t have much to complain about in the speed department, unfortunately however, not everyone is so fortunate. According to a recent study conducted by video hosting company Wistia, almost one in five US Internet users are unable to reliably stream HD video over their connections.…
By Brandon Russell |
GoDaddy spectacularly went offline earlier this week, and with it went millions of popular websites around the Internet. To make up for the incident, the Web hosting company sent out emails to customers apologizing with a one-month free service offer as a way to snuff…
By Adriana Lee |
The man looked at the photo in front of him. A federal agency had sent someone to check him out, and the stranger was now holding up a picture to get his initial reaction. While one person would see a heartwarming image of a father…
By Adriana Lee |
Back in 1995, the Internet was a very different place. The Information Superhighway was still a toddler compared to today’s webs, America Online was a growing juggernaut, and Newsweek was predicting that the Internet would be a dismal failure. My, how things have changed. I just…
By Adriana Lee |
Should the control over the Internet pass to the United Nations? That’s the question that could arise when the U.N.’s International Telecommunications Union hosts its World Conference on International Telecommunications this December. While it might be hard to imagine anyone jockeying for control over something as…
