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FCC enforces net neutrality, voting to regulate broadband providers as common carriers under Title II and ban paid fast lanes — FCC votes for net neutrality, a ban on paid fast lanes, and Title II — Internet providers are now common carriers, and they're ready to sue.
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See also Mediagazer| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
AT&T, Verizon, Obama, lobbyists, advocates, and others react to net neutrality ruling — Obama, AT&T, Verizon, Netflix and more react to the FCC's historic net neutrality vote — The FCC has just made history by placing broadband under Title II regulation in an attempt to permanently safeguard net neutrality.
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See also Mediagazer| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Verizon mocks FCC ruling with Morse code response dated 1934, despite using Title II to its benefit — Verizon issues furious response to FCC, in Morse code, dated 1934 — Verizon wants 1st Amendment right to edit the Web, but rules from 1934 are too old.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
FCC overrules state laws to help cities build out municipal broadband — Before it tackles net neutrality, the FCC is setting a major precedent for municipal broadband: it's just voted to preempt state laws that were preventing two cities from building out their own locally run broadband networks.
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| Jim Dalrymple / The Loop: |
Apple announces media event on March 9 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco; more Apple Watch details expected — ∞ Apple announces media event for March 9 — Apple announces media event for March 9 — Apple on Thursday sent out invites for a special event to be held on March 9, 2015.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple to Live Stream ‘Spring Forward’ Apple Watch Event on March 9 — Apple today updated its website to notify users that it plans to live stream its Monday, March 9 media event that will take place at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. — The event will be broadcast … | David Pierce / Wired: |
Motorola to launch Moto Maker tool for customizing Moto 360 watches in March — A Big Bet On Choice: Motorola Will Soon Let You Build Your Own Smartwatch — In March, Motorola will flip on a new version of Moto Maker, the tool it created to let users design a Moto X to their exact specifications.| Miguel Helft / Forbes: |
Interview with Sundar Pichai on Android, Play ads, Google+, Apple, China, and more — Exclusive: Sundar Pichai's Plan To Keep Google Almighty — If it works, do it again. And again. — That's Sundar Pichai's approach as he steps up efforts to monetize the hundreds of millions people around …
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Former White House Press Secretary Jay Carney joins Amazon as senior vice president for Worldwide Corporate Affairs — Jay Carney to Amazon — Mike Allen's Politico Playbook will report: “Former White House Press Secretary Jay Carney joins Amazon on Monday as senior vice president for Worldwide Corporate Affairs.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google makes mobile-friendliness a ranking signal, ranks apps with indexed deep links higher — Google Makes “Mobile-Friendliness” A Ranking Signal Worldwide, Boosts Indexed Apps In Search Results — Google today announced two notable changes that will affect the rankings of search results … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
iOS grows to 73% enterprise share in Q4 2014, Android drops to 25%, and Windows Phone stays flat at 1% — Apple still rules the mobile enterprise space and is extending its lead. iOS gained another 4 percentage points, growing to 73 percent of global device activations in Q4 2014.
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| Jessica Conditt / Engadget: |
Google is working on a Chrome reading mode, try it out — Google wants to give your peepers a break. Google Chromium Evangelist Francois Beaufort laid out early versions of Reader Mode for Chrome desktop and mobile in a post today on Google Plus (of course).| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Disqus relaunches to turn your comments into a Reddit-like social network — Disqus, which makes a popular website plug-in for hosting comments at the end of articles you read on the internet, relaunched its homepage today as a full-fledged social network. Log in to your Disqus account … | Lizette Chapman / Wall Street Journal: |
Deep-linking startup Branch Metrics raises $15M Series A led by New Enterprise Associates — Branch Metrics Raises $15 Million to Scale Deep-Linking Technology — Private investors are continuing to plow cash into deep-linking startups, with Branch Metrics Inc. becoming the latest …
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Google Calendar for Android gets 7-day week view, pinch-to-zoom, Drive integration for events, and more — Google today updated Google Calendar for Android with a slew of new features and improvements. You can download the new version now directly from Google Play.| Owen Williams / The Next Web: |
Vurb is a mobile search engine that helps you get things done without jumping between apps — Organizing friends to go out to the movies or dinner can be a pain; you jump between apps and websites as you try to figure out which restaurant to eat at, which movie to see, at what theatre, all the while trying to organize it over texts.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
EFF unearths evidence of possible Superfish-style attacks in the wild — Crypto-busting apps may been exploited against visitors of Google and dozens more. — It's starting to look like Superfish and other software containing the same HTTPS-breaking code library may have posed more than a merely theoretical danger to Internet users.| Alison Griswold / Slate: |
Lack of notifications on password changes and slow customer service put Venmo users at risk for fraud — Venmo Money, Venmo Problems — Two twentysomethings hop out of a cab. They get dinner. They grab drinks at a bar. Neither stops to worry about splitting the tab. “Just Venmo me,” one says.
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Spotify adds lyrics to its desktop player, while phasing out App Finder — Spotify signalled some time ago that it was winding down its “App Finder” feature for third-party apps within its desktop software. Now it's removing the section altogether, while adding one of its most popular apps - Musixmatch's lyrics - as a core feature.
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