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The FCC changed course on network neutrality. Here is why you should care. — Wednesday's press reports of the new network neutrality rules proposed by FCC Chairman Wheeler have been met with anger and confusion. According to the Wall Street Journal, “[r]egulators are proposing new rules …
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| Ryan Singel / Medium: |
How The FCC Plans to Save the Internet by Destroying It: An Explainer — The FCC wants to make good on President Obama's pledge to make net neutrality into law. It's just having a very hard time actually doing it. — Net Neutrality is the simple concept that the company that provides …
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Hit & Run, Computerworld, New York Times, InfoWorld, Gigaom Research, FierceEnterpriseCommunications …, Free Press Blog and Techdirt. Tweets: @ddayen
| Liam Spradlin / Android Police: |
Rumor: ‘Ok Google Everywhere,’ Modular Actions, New Navigation Buttons Coming To Android — We've recently seen plenty of rumors related to Google's future plans for its Search app, from automatically remembering where you parked to reminding you of things when you're with another person …
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| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
Security researcher finds most hospital equipment hackable in study of about 100 facilities — Why It's Insanely Easy to Hack Hospital Equipment — When Scott Erven was given free reign to roam through all of the medical equipment used at a large chain of Midwest health care facilities … | Jim Dalrymple / The Loop: |
Apple launches iPhone 5 Sleep/Wake Button Replacement Program — Apple launches iPhone 5 Sleep/Wake Button Replacement Program — Apple on Friday launched a new program to help iPhone 5 users that may have been affected by a problem with the Sleep/Wake button not functioning properly.
| Chris Velazco / Engadget: |
Xperia Z2 coming to US through Sony online store this summer, no carrier support yet — Sony's online store will be the only place to buy its best phone in the US — Sony's Xperia Z2 may be a big, powerful slab of a phone, but fans in the United States hoping to snag one in-person …
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| Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
The Untold Story Of Larry Page's Incredible Comeback — One day in July 2001, Larry Page decided to fire Google's project managers. All of them. — It was just five years since Page, then a 22-year-old graduate student at Stanford, was struck in the middle of the night with a vision.| Washington Post: |
Low-level federal judges balking at law enforcement requests for electronic evidence — Judges at the lowest levels of the federal judiciary are balking at sweeping requests by law enforcement officials for cellphone and other sensitive personal data, declaring the demands overly broad and at odds with basic constitutional rights.
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| Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
Surveillance court rejected Verizon challenge to NSA calls program — Verizon in January filed a legal challenge to the constitutionality of the National Security Agency's program that collects billions of Americans' call-detail records, but a surveillance court rejected it …
| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Why Do So Many People Describe Aereo ‘Complying’ With Copyright Law As The Company ‘Circumventing’ Copyright Law? — We mentioned this briefly in our writeup of the oral arguments at the Supreme Court in the Aereo case, but I wanted to focus in on one particularly annoying issue that has come …
Tweets: @rsingel and @videograndpa
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Netflix researching “large-scale peer-to-peer technology” for streaming — When we wrote about the possibility of Netflix using a peer-to-peer architecture for streaming earlier today, it seemed like more of a thought experiment than a real possibility. — But it turns out Netflix is looking … | Re/code: |
Will Google+ be scaled back? Googlers are unsure, but Besbris' appointment is seen as evidence — Minus Its Leader, What's Left at Google+? — Without its biggest champion and original leader, Vic Gundotra, insiders say the fate of Google+, the search giant's big attempt to dominate … | Brian X. Chen / New York Times: |
Former Apple engineer recalls early iPhone development, which resembled a startup — An iPhone Engineer-Turned-Game Maker Shares His Apple Story — When Francisco Tolmasky was just 20 years old and started working for Apple, he took on a challenging task: to create a rich mobile web browser …
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TechCrunch, Daring Fireball, BGR, MobileSyrup.com, Softpedia News, Ars Technica and The Verge
| Josh Lowensohn / The Verge: |
Apple and Samsung will go into overtime to address key patent issue in court — Apple and Samsung will get a little more time in court than originally planned, after a California judge said both sides should be able to present additional evidence to clarify the wording associated with one of Apple's key patents.
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