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 Instagram. The ban does not, however, apply to posts by licensed gun dealers. Though Facebook and Instagram never directly sold guns to users, they each served as a […]
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 Piper single engine plane was seen underwater as authorities were near it. Authorities near plane that went down near Haulover Beach on February 2, 2016. Authorities at scene […]
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 accidentally severed by workers of another company. The outage occurred Jan. 5 on the beachside in Pompano Beach, affecting 591 customers in the area from around Northeast 7th […]
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 decision not to grant small Internet service providers (ISP) a permanent exemption from the “enhanced transparency requirements” of the FCC open Internet order.“By failing to make the exemption […]
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 gathered either through malware downloaded during phishing attacks or indirectly through data breaches of other companies that stored Time Warner Cable’s customer information, including email addresses. The company […]
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 about 20% of poor Wi-Fi performance is caused by electronic gadgets and lights in the home. While problems with network congestion and infrastructure carry most of the blame […]
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 digital businesses. From Sunday onwards, the agency will no longer collect mobile communication metadata indiscriminately and in bulk. Instead, it will have to target particular individuals and get […]
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. Thanksgiving was originated to give thanks for the harvest from the preceding year, and its safe to assume most of us know that. However, we are not the only […]
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 data center will provide all aspects of eDiscovery services from data hosting to data processing, but not document or data review. “What we’re looking to do is see […]
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 boom in smartphone ownership, the number of Internet users will rise to 402 million in December from 375 million in October, according to the trade group Internet and […]
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 past and present veterans that have risked their lives to serve our country. On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, an armistice, or […]
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 companies that have thrived with programming on pay TV. Traditional media companies’ shares fell after Time Warner said during its quarterly conference call that it needed to take […]
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 website, the email is rejected and not sent to the recipient, according to 95.1 FM in New York City. After a customer complained about the policy the corporation […]
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 constitutional referendum extending term limits and allowing Denis Sasou N’Guesso to run for an additional term. Police injured seven protesters, five by gunfire and two by tear gas […]
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, there are still 4.2 billion people on this planet, or 58 percent of the world, that do not. This gap exists due to several factors including (but not […]
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. Today, the company is unveiling a public-facing version of its Wordsmith platform for anyone to use. You can sign up for access to the beta, with general availability […]
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 countries, according to a top industry official. Experts told the UK Daily Telegraph the tests were run to prepare for an information blackout in case of a potential […]
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 radio signals from drones operating too close to airports. FAA Deputy Administrator Michael Whitaker made the announcement at a drone safety hearing before the House Transportation Subcommittee on […]
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. The non-profit corporation has been doing so since 1998, but in conjunction with the US Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). Under contract with ICANN, NTIA […]
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 is a luxury that few can afford. Using data from the Internet Live Stats, SoftwareInsider visualized the percentage of Internet users by country, or Internet penetration, as of […]