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Net neutrality protection is coming, but there's still a fight ahead Mr. Wheeler revealed his plans in a Wired op-ed piece on Wednesday. In his piece he said, I am submitting to my colleagues the strongest open internet protections ever proposed by the FCC. These enforceable, bright-line rules will ban paid prioritization, and the blocking…

FCC ready to propose changes to protect net neutrality Industry analysts and lobbyists said the FCC will push to group ISPs as a telecommunication service under Title II of the Communications Act, according to the New York Times. That change would give the FCC much more authority over ISP practices, but chairman Tom Wheeler is…

Congress may be taking Tim Cook's advice to heart and changing corporate tax policies When grilled by the subcommittee, Mr. Cook said, The tax system handicaps American corporations in relation to our foreign competitors who don’t have such constraints on the free movement of capital. It is in this spirit that we recommend a dramatic…

Apple ht with patent infringement lawsuit over Lightning connector tech Comarco's 8,492,933 patent, titled Power Supply Equipment for Providing a Data Signal, Identification Information and Power to an Electronic Device, describes a system where device chargers include a cable with a smart tip that can communicate with the device its charging, much like Apple's Lightning…

Particularly keenly felt by the Apple watching community will be the loss of TUAW (pronounced “too-ah” sort of like a Marine). First posting Apple news starting in December 2004, the site will close on Tuesday, February 3rd—the archives will remain as a section of Engadget. Many former TUAW writers have gone on to other notable…

Senate bill aims to get Apple, other companies to bring money into the US The bill is cosponsored by Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Rand Paul (R-KY) and proposes to use the tax funds it generates to extend the U.S. Highway Trust Fund. Titled Invest in Transportation Act of 2015, the two are promoting the bill…

$AAPL ended the day at $118.90 per share, a gain of $+3.59 (+3.11 percent), on heavy volume of 84.2 million shares trading hands. The stock hit an intra-day high of $119.19 just before the closing bell. $AAPL Chart for Year Ending January 29th, 2015 Source: Yahoo! Finance On Tuesday, Apple reported record high quarterly revenues…

China demands back door into computers, apps The rules are targeting companies selling to the Chinese banking industry, according to the New York Times. Groups including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have come out against China's new regulations, and President Barak Obama is expected to offer up some negative comments on the changes, too. There…

FCC to hotels: Stop blocking hotspots Hotspots are devices like Verizon's MiFi that let users create their own personal network with a wireless broadband Internet connection. They're handy in areas where other Internet options are limited, and are popular with travelers who don't want to pay hotels high fees for poor Internet access. The FCC's…

Micahel Fassbender, from a 2012 GQ Spread Seth Rogan (The Interview, and we'll leave it at that) is playing Steve Wozniak. Danny Boyle is directing, and the film is now officially named Steve Jobs. Seemingly on the fasttrack to get made in the first year or two after Steve Jobs died in 2011, this movie…

YouTube switches to HTML5, gives Flash the kiss of death HTML5 isn't anything new to YouTube. The company started supporting the format a few years ago for mobile devices, but didn't make the same jump on the desktop because of technical limitations. YouTube Engineering Manager Richard Leider said, At the time, there were limitations that…

Dropcam HD Here's the statement from the support page about the program: We’re always trying to improve Dropcam and the software behind it. But that means some features won’t work with our older Dropcam models. As we improve Dropcam, we’ll no longer be able to give Original Dropcam and Dropcam Echo owners an experience that…

Chester Chipperfield's LinkedIn Profile. Mr. Chipperfield also offered his goodbyes to native London on Twitter, as noted by 9to5Mac: Goodbye London. I have been lucky to call you home for 31 years, time to discover another city.. http://t.co/CRxTDxckQB — Chester Chipperfield (@chesterchip) December 28, 2014 Apple also raided Burberry for Musa Tariq, head of Burberry's…

John Chen Executive Chairman and CEO of BlackBerry In the roughly 15 months since he took over BlackBerry, Mr. Chen has delivered the company from death's door. Using a well-articulated strategy of focusing on services, Mr. Chen has convinced Wall Street that BlackBerry has, if not a bright future, some kind of future. That's no…

First off, you need a set of Hue bulbs, the color-changing ones with the hub (available at Apple stores as a “starter kit”), and you also have to get the free SyFy Sync app for your iOS (or Android) device. Within the app there's a setting where you connect to the hub for the Hue…

President Obama sides with UK, wants backdoor to our encrypted data Mr. Obama offered up the threat of terrorism as justification for the need to make encryption a privacy and security feature in name only. According to the Wall Street Journal he said, If we find evidence of a terrorist plot… and despite having a…

This device is a sleek beauty with specs that beat many of the specs in the iPhone 6 Plus. And it's cheap, at roughly $370 in China. The iPhone 6 Plus is roughly a grand. Here's a promo video for the device:

RBC's Amit Daryanani thinks Apple will report shipping between 67 million and 68 million iPhones for the holiday quarter, and that the current quarter will see upwards of 50 million iPhones shipped. He also expects Apple to see more growth as more retailers and banks support Apple Pay, and when Apple Watch ships this spring.…

At the same time, sales of Google Glass are being halted as Google ends the Explorer Program, which put the device in the hands of Glassholes. The program officially ends on January 19th. In other words, Google Glass needs saving, and CNBC characterized the “graduation” as a “reorganization.” Ivy Ross, the current head of Google…

Image credit: Samsung On January 7, Samsung released information about this new SSD. The SM951 boasts outstanding performance, supporting both PCIe 3.0 and PCIe 2.0 interfaces. For use in the latest ultra-slim notebooks, it can read and write sequentially at 1,600 MB/s (megabytes per second) and 1,350 MB/s respectively based on PCIe 2.0… If PCIe…

Although final results won’t be released until late January, Samsung’s report predicts a profit of 5.2 trillion South Korean won (about US$4.7 billion) on revenues of 52 trillion South Korean won (about US$47.3 billion) for the December quarter of 2014. That’s about a 37 percent decline in profit and 12 percent decline in revenues compared…

The film, Steve Jobs, has been troubled with production and casting issues, but appears to be finally gaining traction as cast members are confirmed. Natalie Portman was recently rumored to be up for the part of Lisa, but reportedly passed on the role. Other actors thus far signed to the project include Michael Fassbender as…

The item up for bid: a 16GB 4.7-inch iPhone with one year’s worth of mobile service on a 4GB per month data plan. There are four contestants tasked with guessing the price of this fairly nice prize, and not a single one of them comes close. Most people will initially be shocked by the $7,500…

Montblanc Timewalker Urban Speed with eStrap The short version of the eStrap is that it has sensors in the part of the strap that passes underneath the watch, as shown above. For non-watch nerds, this is a “pass-through” or “NATO-style” strap, but Montblanc has designed the eStrap so that it will work with any of…