Tag Archives: Internet

Earlier this year, Amazon launched a new storefront dubbed the “Amazon Cable Store,” which focused on reselling Comcast’s internet and television service from the retailer’... More

President-elect Donald Trump made the vilification of China a key plank of his stormy campaign. Yet its technology giants are already figuring out how they can profit off his victo... More

Donald Trump’s presidential election victory has increased the chances that President Barack Obama’s landmark net-neutrality rules could be rolled back, some telecom investors ... More

In August, business groups around the world petitioned China to rethink a proposed cybersecurity law that they said would hurt foreign companies and further separate the country fr... More

A major cyberattack against an internet directory knocked dozens of popular websites offline today, with outages continuing into the afternoon. Twitter, SoundCloud, Spotify, Shopif... More

A billion here, a billion there. The number of Internet-connected devices continues to climb. While there will be many billions of sensors of all types installed around the world, ... More

Stop the presses. A news report out of The Information suggests that Amazon is considering the possibility of becoming an Internet service provider in Europe. In theory, the move w... More

The Blockstack approach should make shutting down the internet or blocking a particular site considerably more challenging. Domain registration is turned over to a blockchain, and ... More

During just the past year, adoption of internet-connected entertainment devices is up more than 10%, with nearly 75% of all American broadband homes having at least one. That’s a... More

To hear the rhetoric, you'd think Russian President Vladimir Putin is going to take over the internet on October 1. That's the date the US Commerce Department has said it will tran... More

The new TV series “Single by 30” follows two high school friends who make a pact over French fries and milkshakes to marry one another if they’re both single at 30. The Los A... More

One of the most important laws protecting online speech is also one of the worst. You’ve probably heard of it. In 1998, President Bill Clinton passed the Digital Millennium Copyr... More

After a years-long transition, the U.S. has finally agreed to cede control of a key piece of the global internet's backbone. The National Telecommunications and Information Agency ... More

Computer scientists have discovered a serious Internet vulnerability that allows attackers to terminate connections between virtually any two parties and, if the connections aren't... More

Forget cybercriminals and rogue states: President Obama is the biggest threat to a free and open Internet, at least according to the platform approved at the Republican National Co... More

The internet is woven into the fabric of how businesses run and how we live our lives. And as this technology has grown, so have the complications with how we build, manage, and re... More

On Friday, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals denied a petition brought by telecoms challenging the FCC's recently enacted net neutrality rules. The decision was eagerly awaited for i... More

Total Media & Entertainment sector spending is expected to rise nearly 20% to $720 billion by 2020, driven mainly by gains in the Internet and mobile advertising sectors, according... More

Verizon Communications Inc. will bid $3 billion for Yahoo! Inc.’s main internet assets, the Wall Street Journal reported, seeking to edge out AT&T Inc., TPG and other potenti... More

Growth of internet users worldwide is essentially flat, and smartphone growth is slowing, too. Those sobering insights were among the hundreds packed into the much-awaited Internet... More