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Score one for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). A panel of the United States Court of Appeals consisting of three judges denied a request filed by various wireless carriers and broadband service providers to delay the adoption of net neutrality rules proposed by the FCC. What this means is that the agency's rules will take effect this coming June 12th, Friday, as scheduled.
Facebook has been experimenting with the idea of a Buy Button functionality in its pages, even testing its with a few selected merchants. But now, the social media giant is opening it up to Shopify retailers.
Broadband internet access may seem like a staple of life to the average person today, but it could still be an out-of-reach luxury to some low-income families. On June 18, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will vote whether to broaden an existing subsidy program to include broadband access. The Lifeline program, which began in 1985, provides low or no-cost telephone service to qualified customers. In 2005, the program was expanded to include discounts on pre-paid wireless telephone plans.
When it comes to music streaming services, well established names -- like Spotify, Pandora, and do not forget Apple's offering which will reportedly debut a few days from now -- are hugging all the limelight. Meanwhile, iHeartRadio has quietly built its own user base, which remarkably now number 70 million registered users.
As a general rule, people are never 100 percent happy with any service. Wireless, Internet, and TV service are no exception to this. But according to a very recent survey, it appears that consumers of these types of services scored the lowest satisfaction level in seven years.
As reported by the Wall Street Journal, Apple is indeed announcing a new music streaming service next week, and it will offer unlimited access to songs at $10 a month. The new service's setup will reportedly be similar to Spotify's in terms of functionality and capabilities.
During its I/O Conference held in San Francisco, Google once again emphasized its push for cheaper mobile devices in emerging mobile markets around across the globe. The search giant believes that emerging markets have the greatest potential of growth. It even stated that it is expecting 1.2 billion units of smartphones to be sold in emerging markets such as China, India, Brazil, Mexico, Russia, and Indonesia. And for sure, a significant chunk of this number will be handsets that are powered by Android, the mobile operating system that Google itself developed.
Google just launched Smart Lock for Passwords during the I/O Conference recently held in San Francisco. As its name implies, Smart Lock for Passwords is basically a password managing tool for logging in to Android mobile apps or to the web. It is built into the user's Google account, which makes for a convenient and safe way of managing passwords for various apps for mobile devices.
Consider this scenario: You just got a chat message via the Facebook Messenger mobile app from somebody you are not sure you have met before. Is this person that cute one from Accounting, or worse, a psycho?
Google has now added tweets to its search results on mobile, through the official Google mobile app on the Android and iOS operating systems, as well as on web browsers made for mobile devices. The tweet-including search results can be triggered by using the keyword "Twitter" especially when googling for specific Twitter accounts and hashtags. However, if you just use any standard search, surface tweets will also be taken into consideration when displaying search results.
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