FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM TO BAN PRIVATE GUN SALES ON SITES
According to Reuters and The New York Times, Facebook has decided to ban all private gun sales on its site, as well as on its photo-sharing service…
Small Plane Goes Down Near Haulover Beach
HAULOVER BEACH- A plane has reportedly gone down near Haulover Beach. Chopper 4 was over the scene at Haulover Cut near 108th Street and Collins Avenue. The…
AT&T Pompano Beach customers without service for up to three weeks
A&T Internet, TV and landline phone customers along a roughly 4-mile stretch of the beachside could be without service for two more weeks as workers rebuild lines…
Urge House to Help Small ISPs
Ahead of a House Communications and Technology Subcommittee hearing Jan. 11, Republican commissioners of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) wrote a letter urging Congress to review a…
Time Warner Cable Says Up to 320,000 Customers’ Data May Have Been Stolen
Time Warner Cable Inc said on Wednesday up to 320,000 customers may have had their email passwords stolen. The company said email and password details were likely…
Report: Holiday lights and gadgets are killing your Wi-Fi
If you want super-fast Wi-Fi in your home, you may want to turn off your Christmas lights. Britain’s communications regulator Ofcom has published a report showing that…
NSA limits its surveillance program in the US
The US National Security Agency (NSA) has reduced the extent of surveillance programs it runs on the US soil, following outcry from citizens, privacy activists and…
Happy Thanksgiving Slingonians!
It is almost that time again. Thanksgiving is just around the corner, and we are all hurrying to get to our families for this special day….
A New Data Center Opens in Hong Kong
Xerox Legal Services announced on Monday that it has opened a data center in Hong Kong in response to growing demand for eDiscovery services there. Initially, XLS’s…
India to Become World’s Second-Largest Internet User Base
NEW DELHI—India will overtake the U.S. to have the second-largest population of Internet users after China by December, an Indian trade group said Tuesday. Fueled by a…
Broward & Miami-Dade Veteran’s Day Events 2015
A little history about Veterans Day… Veteran’s day is not just a day you might get off of work (that’s if you get to), but a day of honoring…
Time Warner amplifies fears that viewers are deserting paid TV
LOS ANGELES – Time Warner on Wednesday re-ignited concerns that U.S. consumers are shifting to Internet television faster than expected and creating challenges to major media…
Verizon Begins Scanning and Censoring Customer Emails
A news radio station in New York reports that the broadband and telecommunications company Verizon is now scanning customer email. If email contains a hyperlink to a…
Government Internet Kill Switches Violate Human Rights, But Telecom Companies Can Fight Back
On October 20th, the government of the Republic of Congo intentionally shut down internet service in order to repress a demonstration taking place in response to a…
The Digital Divide: Is Internet Access a Human Right?
The Digital Divide continues throughout the world. A 2015 paper from the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings notes that although 3.1 billion people have Internet access,…
The company behind the AP’s ‘robot journalists’ is opening up its technology for everyone
Technology is already being used by companies like the Associated Press and Yahoo to auto-generate data-heavy articles about quarterly earnings, college sports, and even fantasy football recaps….
Russia reportedly looking to remove itself from Internet
Russia has reportedly run tests to see if it can remove itself from the World Wide Web to stem the flow of information to and from foreign…
FAA tests technology to counter drones
Washington- The Federal Aviation Administration is testing anti-drone technology that would counter drones flying within a five-mile radius of select airports. The technology is supposed to detect…
ICANN CEO: Why The Internet’s Future Is At Risk
ICANN the Internet Corporation for Assigned Numbers and Names, hopes to convince the US government that it can oversee the Internet’s technical infrastructure on its own….
Internet Availability by Country
The Internet has arguably had the biggest impact of all modern inventions. But though many can access it with the touch of a button, for others it…