March 8, 2016 F.C.C. Fine-Tunes Plan to Subsidize Internet Access by CECILIA KANG By CECILIA KANG A proposal for a monthly broadband subsidy for low-income households is expected to be approved by the F.C.C.’s commissioners later this…
March 8, 2016 In San Francisco and Rooting for a Tech Slowdown by DAVID STREITFELD By DAVID STREITFELD The city is bulging, the rents soaring, and residents are growing more vocal about wishing Silicon Valley would cool off, or…
March 8, 2016 Verizon Settles With F.C.C. Over Hidden Tracking via ‘Supercookies’ by CECILIA KANG By CECILIA KANG The penalty, $1.35 million, was small, but the action drew wide attention from the telecom industry as a glimpse of the…
March 8, 2016 Tech Giants Battle for Top Cloud Talent by PUI-WING TAM By PUI-WING TAM Industry titans like Amazon and Oracle are duking it out for cloud engineers, taking swipes at the competition and attracting workers…
March 8, 2016 Microsoft to Close 2 Game Development Studios by NICK WINGFIELD By NICK WINGFIELD The studios are Lionhead, which is based in Britain, and Press Play, which is based in Denmark. Published: March 7, 2016…
March 8, 2016 Counting Characters in Twitter by J. D. BIERSDORFER By J. D. BIERSDORFER There is a reason Twitter allows 20 fewer characters in a post than a standard SMS text message. Published: March…
March 8, 2016 U.S. Restricts Sales to ZTE, Saying It Breached Sanctions by PAUL MOZUR By PAUL MOZUR The Chinese phone maker will be blocked from buying American technology without a special license for violating sanctions against Iran. Published:…
March 8, 2016 Microsoft Opens Its Corporate Data Software to Linux by QUENTIN HARDY By QUENTIN HARDY For the first time, Microsoft is enabling SQL Server, its software for managing business data, to run on a competing operating…
March 8, 2016 Justice Dept. Appeals Ruling in Apple iPhone Case in Brooklyn by ERIC LICHTBLAU and JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN By ERIC LICHTBLAU and JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN The Justice Department said a federal judge had erred in not ordering Apple to unlock a drug dealer’s…
March 7, 2016 Raymond Tomlinson, Who Put the @ Sign in Email, Is Dead at 74 by WILLIAM GRIMES By WILLIAM GRIMES The computer programmer chose the @ sign to separate a user name from a destination address to modify a messaging program….