Net neutrality is important. If you aren’t familiar with the term, let CGP Grey explain:
In short, net neutrality promises protection from Internet service providers slowing traffic down based on content or source.
This morning, the President issued a statement urging the FCC to consider Internet access as a public utility, which would forbid companies like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon from creating “fast lanes” on the Internet.
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President Obama:
An open Internet is essential to the American economy, and increasingly to our very way of life. By lowering the cost of launching a new idea, igniting new political movements, and bringing communities closer together, it has been one of the most significant democratizing influences the world has ever known.
“Net neutrality” has been built into the fabric of the Internet since its creation — but it is also a principle that we cannot take for granted. We cannot allow Internet service providers (ISPs) to restrict the best access or to pick winners and losers in the online marketplace for services and ideas. That is why today, I am asking the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to answer the call of almost 4 million public comments, and implement the strongest possible rules to protect net neutrality.
Told you it was a business model move:
Evernote announced today that it has raised $20 million in new capital from Nikkei, the Japanese media conglomerate that publishes the influential financial newspaper Nikkei, as well English-language Nikkei Asian Review. In addition, the Nikkei will also start feeding articles into Evernote’s Context feature, which launched last month.
Greg Kumparak:
The Apple II may be one of the most important systems in the history of personal computing — but that doesn’t mean it was perfect. Nearly 40 years later, Steve Wozniak is still coming up with ways he could have done it better.
Yesterday, Amazon announced Echo, a device that could be best summed up as Siri in a can.
The $199 cylinder plugs into the wall, and when activated with a “wake word.” Once it’s listening, it can handle all sorts of requests according to Amazon:
The introduction video, although a little hokey, shows the device in action, in the daily lives of a family:
Say what you will about how Chrysler ended up, the Pentastar logo is a part of American history. I’ll miss seeing it on buildings and tractor trailers driving down the highway.
File this away for the complaining we’ll all hear later this month.
I missed recording yesterday, but episode 12 of Connected is a good one:
This week Federico and Myke talk a little about photo storage solutions, before discussing the widgets in their Today Views, what’s on Federico’s iPad home screen and his impressions of the iPad Air 2.
It was made possible by these awesome companies:
These days, it’s hard to argue in favor of dedicated devices.
Smartphones have taken the place of consumer video recorders, point-n-shoot cameras and even the iPod.
Fitness bands — despite several recent product announcements from Jawbone, Fitbit and Microsoft — will seem silly once the Apple Watch hits shelves early next year.
In this world, Amazon continues to release e-ink Kindles each year, despite themselves making an entire line of iPad-style tablets.
If you have a nerd on your shopping list this year, start with this post.
Three years ago, I wrote this.
It may be one of the best things I’ve ever published on this site. I honestly don’t know, as I haven’t read it in quite some time.
It’s been a weird three years since publishing that letter.
If the first three years of Josiah’s life were marked by white-knuckle panic and the fear of the unknown, the most recent three have been marked by periods of normalcy punctured with reminders of how serious his condition — and how fragile his life — really is.