FCC votes to expand Lifeline program to include broadband subsidy
The Federal Communications Commission voted 3-to-2 along party lines Thursday to expand the Lifeline telephone subsidy for low-income Americans to…
DMCA takedown critics flood Copyright Office with comments
Critics of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act have flooded the U.S. Copyright Office with tens of thousands of comments complaining…
For Windows 10, March goes out like a lion
After a slow February, Windows 10 boosted its growth in users during March, data published today showed. According to U.S.-based…
IDG Contributor Network: SharePoint 2016: What's in it for business users
If you scour the Internet looking for information about SharePoint 2016, there is plenty out there for IT pros regarding…
IDG Contributor Network: The inevitability of data visualization criticism
I propose the following law: “The longer an innovative visualization exists, the probability someone says it should have been a line/bar chart approaches…
Oops! Apple accidentally shows its future plans with iPhone SE
April 1 marks 40 years of Apple history, so at first it may have seemed strange the company marked the…
IDG Contributor Network: The new Apple Stores show how compelling in-store can be
Apple is touting its newly redesigned Apple Stores, and they are indeed quite impressive. Conceding that the very nature of…
Reddit's removal of ‘warrant canary’ could hint at US demand for its user data
Reddit has removed a notice, known as a warrant canary, from its transparency report for 2015, suggesting that it may…
CloudFlare aims to block fewer legitimate Tor users
CloudFlare is tweaking its systems to make it easier for legitimate Tor users to access websites that use its network…
April Fools' Day online prank round-up (2016)
Happy April Fools’ Day Image by Thinkstock It wouldn’t be April 1 without April Fools’ Day pranks making their way…