Newegg Mistakenly Sends Emails About Settlements On AMD, Nvidia GPUs By Rexly Peñaflorida published 4 August 16 Newegg's recent emails about a lawsuit and settlement on specific GPUs might not affect you if you haven't bought a GTX 970.
Firefox Joins Other Major Browsers In Default Blocking Of All Flash Content By 2017 By Lucian Armasu published 21 July 16 Mozilla announced that Firefox will begin blocking invisible Flash content next month and that the browser will block all Flash content by default starting in 2017.
China Reforms Advertisement Policy, Banning Ad Blocking By Michael Justin Allen Sexton published 20 July 16 China prepares a new Internet policy that bans ad-blocking software and hardware, but the policy also comes with strict government regulation of advertisements.
Skype To End Support For Older Versions Of Android And Windows (Updated) By Michael Justin Allen Sexton published 20 July 16 Skype announced that it would end support for all Windows-based smartphones and older versions of Android.
Opera On Edge About Microsoft's Recent Power Consumption Browser Tests By Lucian Armasu published 23 June 16 Opera challenged Microsoft's power consumption browsing tests as biased and did its own tests, which showed Opera coming out ahead. However, Opera's tests come with a major caveat, as well.
Microsoft Tests Claim Edge Browser Beats Competitors In Power Efficiency Tests By Lucian Armasu published 20 June 16 Microsoft performed three tests in which it showed that its new browser, Edge, can beat its competitors by significant margins when it comes to power efficiency.
Court Upholds Net Neutrality Rules, Now FCC Must Enforce Them By Lucian Armasu published 14 June 16 The Federal Appeals Court for the Washington, D.C. Circuit upheld FCC's 2015 "net neutrality" rules, now leaving it up to the agency to start properly enforcing them.
Basemark Web 3.0 Cross-Platform Benchmarking Tool Launches With WebGL 2.0 Support By Lucian Armasu published 9 June 16 Basemark launched the third version of its Basemark Web 3.0 web benchmarking tool, which brings WebGL 2.0 tests and is now available on both mobile and PC platforms.
Mozilla, Reddit, Vimeo, And Others Call On FCC To Publicize Its Zero-Rating Plans By Lucian Armasu published 24 May 16
Chrome To Block Most Flash Content By Default By End Of 2016 By Lucian Armasu published 16 May 16 Chrome will block Flash content on all websites except the top ten most visited ones, which will get an exemption of another year.
Frontier Of Failure: Verizon FIOS Fumble Costs An ISP The Game (Opinion) By Fritz Nelson published 22 April 16
Corning Intoduces Gorilla Glass With Printed Images By Michael Justin Allen Sexton published 20 April 16 Corning announced its new Vibrant Gorilla Glass, which can contain colorful printed images to help companies decorate their devices.
Skype For Web Now Supports Plugin-Free Voice And Video Calls (In Edge) By Lucian Armasu published 15 April 16 Skype for Web users can now call each other from inside the Edge browser without using a plugin.
Vidyo Launches Plugin-Free Video Conferencing With WebRTC By Lucian Armasu published 14 April 16 Vidyo announced a new version of its video conferencing client and server that supports the WebRTC protocol, enabling plugin-free video calls in Chrome and Firefox.
Vivaldi 1.0 Targets Browser Power Users With Advanced Features, Chrome Extensions By Lucian Armasu published 6 April 16 Vivaldi, a new desktop browser created by Opera co-founder Jon von Tetzchner, launched its first stable version with many advanced features out of the box, targeting power users.
AMD, ARM, Nvidia Join Alliance For Open Media By Lucian Armasu published 5 April 16 The Alliance for Open Media announced that three major chip makers--ARM, AMD and Nvidia--joined to help create the next-generation video codec.
FCC Provides Low-Income Families Subsidized Internet By Michael Justin Allen Sexton published 2 April 16 As part of its ongoing strategy to provide broadband Internet in every home in America, the FCC made an addendum to the Lifeline service that covers Internet acess.
