FCC chairman defends broadband regulation move
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission will move to reclassify broadband transmission as a regulated, common-carrier service, but exempt many broadband services from new regulations in an effort to find a middle ground between no oversight and heavy-handed new authority, the agency's chairman said Thursday.
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New Facebook features secretly add apps to your profile
When a piece of software is automatically installed on your computer without your knowledge, it's called malware. But what do you call it when Facebook apps are added to your profile without your knowledge? We discovered that this is actually happening, and stopping it isn't as easy as checking a box in your privacy settings.
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Michael Capellas to lead Acadia data center joint venture
EMC and Cisco have tapped former Compaq Computer CEO Michael Capellas to head their Acadia services joint venture, the companies said Thursday.
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Security firm reveals Microsoft's 'silent' patches
Microsoft silently patched three vulnerabilities last month, two of them affecting enterprise mission-critical Exchange mail servers, without calling out the bugs in the accompanying advisories, a security expert said today.
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Microsoft gets some heat over HTML5 plans
Microsoft came under fire from some of its rivals on Wednesday for its decision not to offer Internet Explorer 9 -- and hence support for the upcoming HTML5 standard -- to users of its older Windows XP operating system.
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Scribd social publishing site dumps Flash in favor of HTML5
Social publishing site Scribd is making a big bet on HTML5 and scrapping its three-year-old Adobe Flash investment.
The site, which features content from such publishers as Simon & Schuster and the Chicago Tribune, will have more than 200,000 pages of HTML5-based content live Thursday at 1 p.m. PT, the company said. Plans call for converting tens of millions of documents representing billions of Web pages.
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Scribd social publishing site dumps Flash in favor of HTML5
Social publishing site Scribd is making a big bet on HTML5 and scrapping its three-year-old Adobe Flash investment.
The site, which features content from such publishers as Simon & Schuster and the Chicago Tribune, will have more than 200,000 pages of HTML5-based content live Thursday at 1 p.m. PT, the company said. Plans call for converting tens of millions of documents representing billions of Web pages.
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Adobe CTO: Apple's behavior a throwback to 1984
Apple's refusal to allow Flash on the iPhone hurts innovation and is "like 1984 in a lot of ways," Adobe Systems' CTO said on Wednesday, implying that Apple has become the "Big Brother" it rebelled against in its iconic TV ad from that year.
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AT&T extends iPhone exclusive in quid pro quo, says analyst
AT&T and Apple probably have a quid pro quo in place that has extended the mobile carrier's exclusive deal with the iPhone in exchange for heavily discounted data plan pricing for the iPad, an analyst said today.
"AT&T had to do something dramatic to get the iPad," said Brian Marshall, a Wall Street analyst at BroadPoint AmTech. AT&T's move was to discount its normal wireless data plans by 50 percent to iPad customers.
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Microsoft refreshes IE9 preview, boosts speed
Making good on a promise two months ago, Microsoft today updated its Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) preview, a sneak peek that targets Web developers and others eager to try out the company's next browser.
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Microsoft refreshes IE9 preview, boosts speed
Making good on a promise two months ago, Microsoft today updated its Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) preview, a sneak peek that targets Web developers and others eager to try out the company's next browser.
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iPhone OS 4.0 beta reveals latest Apple goodies
Apple on Tuesday released the third beta version of iPhone OS 4, only to temporarily rescind it due to an apparent problem with the installation process for the accompanying software development kit.
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iPhone OS 4.0 beta reveals latest Apple goodies
Apple on Tuesday released the third beta version of iPhone OS 4, only to temporarily rescind it due to an apparent problem with the installation process for the accompanying software development kit.
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