Tech Policy The Demise of Net Neutrality Will Harm Innovation in America Congress needs to move fast to limit the damage. by Martin Giles 2017-12-07T12:35:00-05:00
Computing 5G Wireless Is Coming, and It’s Going to Blow You Away A massive FCC spectrum release—and new advances in wireless technologies—accelerate an era of incredibly fast data. by David Talbot 2016-07-27T10:08:00-04:00
Business Impact What Yahoo Got Right The company may have failed, but not everything it did was a bad idea. by Tom Simonite 2016-07-25T16:15:00-04:00
Tech Policy How Ads Follow You from Phone to Desktop to Tablet Advertisers are increasingly using technology that targets users across multiple devices, and it’s working. by Adam Tanner 2015-07-01T00:00:00-04:00
Connectivity The Wait-for-Google-to-Do-It Strategy America’s communications infrastructure is finally getting some crucial upgrades because one company is forcing competition when regulators won’t. by James Surowiecki 2015-06-23T00:05:00-04:00
Intelligent Machines Verizon’s Risky Bet on AOL’s Ad Business Verizon’s proposed acquisition of AOL looks promising on paper, but the devil is in the details. by Robert Hof 2015-05-12T15:12:00-04:00
Intelligent Machines A Simple Plan to Impede the NSA Is Taking Hold More e-mail providers are using encryption, meaning messages can’t be intercepted and read by the NSA or hackers. by David Talbot 2014-06-06T16:37:00-04:00
Connectivity Talk of an Internet Fast Lane Is Already Hurting Some Startups Some VCs say the FCC’s latest net neutrality proposal will raise costs for startups that need fast connections or use a lot of bandwidth. by David Talbot 2014-05-07T00:00:00-04:00
Connectivity Here’s Why the Comcast-Time Warner Merger Is Bad Comcast’s proposed $45 billion merger with Time Warner Cable is reminiscent of a 1990s-era plan for Internet dominance that Comcast then distrusted. by Susan Crawford 2014-04-10T13:35:00-04:00
Connectivity Is Netflix Slowing Down? Good Luck Finding Out Why. The FCC wants to force ISPs to show whether delays are due to unavoidable congestion or created to extract fees from content providers. by David Talbot 2014-02-21T00:00:00-05:00