Getty Images | McCaig reader comments 108 with 77 posters participating Share this story Internet service providers could be required to release “broadband nutrition labels” with detailed information about prices, speeds, and data caps under legislation introduced by US Rep. Angie Craig (D-Minn.). Craig’s “Broadband Consumer Transparency Act” would bring back expanded transparency requirements that ..
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Enlarge / The White House South Lawn, which is unfortunately not the view most folks working for a presidential administration have. reader comments 129 with 75 posters participating, including story author Share this story Longtime tech critic Tim Wu is joining the Biden administration as an adviser on technology and competition, a signal that the ..
Enlarge / The Arizona State Capitol museum, flanked by the House of Representatives building (R) and a cactus (L). reader comments 93 with 50 posters participating Share this story Epic vs. Apple/Google View more stories The Arizona state House of Representatives this week passed a landmark bill that, if adopted, would require Google and Apple ..
Enlarge / Illustration of fiber-optic cables. reader comments 133 with 102 posters participating Share this story Four US senators called on the Biden administration Thursday to establish a “21st century definition of high-speed broadband” of 100Mbps both upstream and downstream. This would be a big upgrade over the Federal Communications Commission broadband standard of 25Mbps ..
reader comments 36 with 30 posters participating Share this story Facebook will lift a ban on political advertising imposed after the US election to curb the spread of misinformation, and it has pledged to investigate whether its political ads systems need a further overhaul. Advertisers would be able to resume running political ads on March ..
reader comments 109 with 95 posters participating, including story author Share this story Comcast just released a 2020 Network Performance Data report with stats on how much Internet usage rose during the pandemic, and it said that upload use is growing faster than download use. “Peak downstream traffic in 2020 increased approximately 38 percent over ..
Enlarge / A person browsing Parler in early January, before the site got into a fight with AWS. reader comments 115 with 76 posters participating Share this story Social media platform Parler has dropped a federal lawsuit alleging that Amazon colluded with Twitter to drive a rival offline—but in its place, the platform has filed ..
reader comments 117 with 78 posters participating, including story author Share this story A Texas jury has ordered Intel to pay $2.18 billion in damages for infringing two patents. The lawsuit was filed by VLSI Technology LLC, a 4-year-old firm that Intel says has no products and no sources of revenue besides patent litigation. The ..
reader comments 68 with 48 posters participating Share this story SpaceX and Dish Network are fighting at the Federal Communications Commission over Dish’s attempt to block a key designation that SpaceX’s Starlink division needs in order to get FCC broadband funding. A SpaceX filing submitted yesterday said that Dish’s “baseless attempt” to block funding “would ..
reader comments 15 with 13 posters participating Share this story Microsoft is urging customers to install emergency patches as soon as possible to protect against highly skilled hackers who are actively exploiting four zero-day vulnerabilities in Exchange Server. The software maker said hackers working on behalf of the Chinese government have been using the previously ..
