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The Federal Communications Commission has taken the first step toward adopting new regulations that could create fast lanes for Internet traffic from websites that can afford to pay for the privilege. Thursday’s recommendation, passed by a 3-2, vote, moves the proposed rules governing “net neutrality” into a formal public comment period. After the 120-day period ends, the FCC will revise the proposal and vote on a final set of rules. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has said he wants the rules in place by the end of this year. Here are some things to know about the proposed rules and net neutrality: WHAT THE RULES CALL FOR Under the proposed rules, Internet providers would be able to charge other companies for priority, high-speed, access to their users. A previous set of…

AT&T Inc plans to pay $48.5 billion to buy DirecTV, in the latest sign that the wireless industry and the U.S. television market are set to converge as customers consume more video on their mobile devices. The deal, announced on Sunday, highlights AT&T’s pressing need for fresh avenues of growth beyond the maturing U.S. cellular business, which has become increasingly competitive. The combination with DirecTV, the No.l U.S. satellite TV provider with 20 million customers, would beef up Dallas-based AT&T’s packages of cellular, broadband, TV and fixed-line phone services. For DirecTV, the deal will enable it to offer broadband Internet for the first time to its U.S. customers, filling in a gap that had made the company vulnerable to cable rivals, which can provide Internet service through their networks. “It…

iOS #01-Stay In The Line By Barry Wyckoff Category: Games Requires iOS 6.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #02 – Weed Firm By Manitoba Games Category: Games Requires iOS 6.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #03 – Piano Tiles By HU WEN ZENG Category: Games Requires iOS 5.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #04 – Toilet Time - Mini Games to Play in the Bathroom By Tapps Tecnologia da Informação Ltda. Category: Games Requires iOS 5.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #05 – 100 Balls By…

Google has warned people not to use its Glass eyewear for long periods of time because it can cause pain. The company said the technology was not meant to be used for “reading War and Peace” and takes time to adjust to. It follows complaints from some users of pain after wearing Google Glass. Google’s optometrist said the problem was caused by the position of the technology, which forces people to look up. “When anyone gets a new pair of glasses or starts wearing them for the first time there is always an adjustment period until people get used to them. For some, it’s the same with Glass,” said a Google spokesman. The company added that it encouraged people to “ease into Glass, just as they would a new pair…

The filing did not reveal how many shares the company planned to sell, or their expected price. GoPro indicated it planned to raise at least $100m (￡59m) from the sale. The company makes wearable cameras and accessories which are popular with extreme sports enthusiasts. GoPro raked in $60.6m in net income in 2013, nearly double its earnings in 2012. In its filing with regulators the company said it expects to use the proceeds from the share sale to fully repay an outstanding loan, which was $111m as of 31 March this year. GoPro also said “it may use a portion of the net proceeds to acquire or invest in complementary businesses, technologies or assets.” The company is proposing to list on the NASDAQ Stock Market, under the symbol ’GPRO’. British…

With Amazon.com Inc ramping up its presence in India, two local online retailers are preparing for tougher competition with separate deals worth a combined $400 million set to be finalized this week. Flipkart, India’s largest online retailer, is expected on Thursday to announce its acquisition of a majority stake in online fashion retailer Myntra in a deal worth about $300 million, said an official from Myntra who did not want to be named as he was not authorized to speak with the media. In a separate deal, local online retailer Snapdeal has raised $100 million from five investors, a company official said on Wednesday. The deal will be announced in a few days, he said. The Snapdeal investors include Temasek Holdings, an official with the Singapore state investor said. The…

A CLOSER LOOK AT HOW iOS AND GOOGLE’S PLATFORM COMPARE As an iDevice user, we don’t doubt for a second that you’re proud of all of the wonderful things your iPod, iPhone or iPod can do - Apple fans tend to be such a way. Indeed, if you’re like many an aficionado of all that emerges from the factory walls at Cupertino, you’ve probably got involved in a bit of banter with Android users from time to time about which is really is king in the smartphone platform wars. Certainly, this writer is old enough to remember the ’console wars’ that waged between video gamers pinning their colors to the Sega, Nintendo, Sony or Microsoft mast in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Since the iPhone effectively ushered in the…

So, a lady walks into a bar...Wait, scratch that. A lady takes out her phone. With a left swipe of her finger she dismisses Alex, 25 and Robert, 48. She swipes right when a photo of James, 24, pops up. It’s a match. James had swiped right too. They chat, and make plans to meet. They’re only three miles apart, after all. Welcome to the new world of dating. As the near-constant use of smartphones proliferates and as people grow more comfortable with disclosing their location, a new class of mobile dating applications is emerging that spans a range as broad as human desire itself. Millennial, busy with school, jobs and social lives, say the apps save time and let users filter out the undesirables, based on a few photos,…

iOS #01– Blek By Denis Mikan Category: Games / Price: $2.99 Requires iOS 6.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #02 – Heads Up! By Warner Bros. Category: Games / Price: $0.99 Requires iOS 5.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #03 – A Dark Room By Amirali Rajan Category: Games / Price: $0.99 Requires iOS 7.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #04 – AfterLight By Simon Filip Category: Photo & Video / Price: $0.99 Requires iOS 5.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. #05 – Minecraft – Pocket…

3 Days to Kill Dangerous international spy Ethan Renner, played by Kevin Costner, vows to leave his high stakes life behind to seek closer ties with his estranged wife (Connie Neilsen) and daughter (Hailee Steinfeld). One more mission awaits him, however. Amber Heard also stars as elite CIA assassin Vivi Delay in this McGdirected French-American action thriller. FIVE FACTS: 1. The script for 3 Days to Kill was written by Luc Besson and Adi Hasak. 2. The film has grossed $44,497,999 worldwide. 3. Of his character’s attempt to balance his home life and work life, Kevin Costner has said: “When dealing with women, Ethan [Renner] gets frustrated, and my house is the same. There’s a level of humor that we tried to bring into the movie without winking at the…

Microsoft bills its new Surface tablet computer as a laptop replacement - and it means it this time. The Surface Pro 3 will have a screen measuring 12 inches diagonally, up from 10.6 inches in the previous model. The Pro 3 is 32 percent thinner and 12 percent lighter than October’s Pro 2. The company said it customized more than 100 parts and worked closely with chipmaker Intel Corp. to maximize performance in a slim device. Microsoft had also billed the Surface Pro 2 as a laptop replacement, but Surface executive Ben Reed said technological advances and customer feedback over the past several months led to the device unveiled Tuesday. The Surface Pro 3 will go on sale this summer, in five configurations ranging from $799 to $1,949. Microsoft will…

Facebook launched its Tm a voter” election feature worldwide, looking ahead to the multiple national elections in the next few months. The feature allows users to broadcast on the social network that they voted in an election. It was first introduced during the 2012 U.S. general elections, and was engaged by more than nine million users. The feature was also made available to voters in India’s recently concluded national elections, with four million users clicking the “I’m a voter” button. The button will next be available to voters in the European parliament elections and national elections in Colombia, South Korea, Indonesia, Sweden, Scotland, New Zealand, and Brazil later this year. The feature will also be made available to voters during the U.S. midterm congressional elections. The button is another attempt…

A federal judge ruled Friday that the Billboard Music Awards can use a hologram of deceased pop icon Michael Jackson at this weekend’s show, rejecting efforts from tech companies seeking to block the digital performance. Judge Kent Dawson said there wasn’t enough evidence to show the planned 3-D image would violate patents held by Hologram USA Inc. and Musion Das Hologram Ltd. The companies own rights to technology known for digitally resurrecting deceased rapper Tupac Shakur at the 2012 Coachella music festival. “The court’s decision is not surprising,” attorney Howard Weitzman, who represented Jackson’s estate and dick dark productions, wrote in an email. “The request to stop this extraordinary Michael Jackson event was ludicrous.” Plans to use the hologram during the show Sunday emerged with the lawsuit, but weren’t confirmed…

It was a little over a year ago that Dong Nguyen was living with his parents in Hanoi, spending his days working away, programming location devices for taxis. One holiday weekend, he made a mobile game that was supposed to have a simple concept while presenting a challenge, sort of like the Nintendo games he had grown up with as a child. The goal: to fly a weird-looking bird between pairs of green pipes. The quicker the user tapped his screen, the higher the bird would go. Flappy Bird was born. On May 24, 2013, the iOS App Store took the game live. Nguyen did not charge for the game, instead making it available as a free download. The hope was that it would bring in some revenue from ads…

The Obama administration has brought unprecedented criminal charges against five officials in the Chinese military for hacking into private U.S. companies’ systems and stealing trade secrets. It was the first time the U.S. has revealed any evidence the Chinese government was going after American companies’ private information for economic gain. Q. What happened? A. A federal grand jury in Pittsburgh charged five Chinese military officials with hacking into six U.S. companies’ systems, conducting economic espionage and stealing trade secrets. The targeted companies are leaders in the nation’s nuclear power, metals and solar products industries: Alcoa World Alumina, the nation’s largest producer of aluminum; Westinghouse Electric Co., one of the world’s leaders in the development of nuclear power technology; Allegheny Technologies, a large metals company; U.S. Steel Corp., the largest steel…

Just As I Am Brantley Gilbert Country rock star Brantley Gilbert follows up his 2010 Platinum-certified Halfway to Heaven album with Just as I Am, his third career studio album, on which we wrote or co-wrote every track, including the charttopping “Bottoms Up”. He’s been described by one critic as “an outlaw with no desire to rebel, an insider who doesn’t belong”, and that’s just the way we like him. FIVE FACTS: 1. Brantley Gilbert was born on January 20, 1985. 2. In addition to his compositions as an artist in his own right, he co-wrote the Jason Aldean singles “My Kinda Party” and “Dirt Road Anthem”. 3. According to Gilbert, “This record is another chapter in my life. It pick[s] up where the last one left off. And I…

E-commerce site eBay is asking users to change their password after a cyberattack compromised a database containing encrypted passwords. The company says there is no evidence of any unauthorized activity and no evidence any financial or credit card information was stolen. EBay says its investigation is active and it can’t comment on the specific number of accounts affected, but says the number could be large, so it is asking all users to change their passwords. EBay had 145 million active users at the end of the first quarter. Cyberattackers stole a small number of employee log-in credentials that gave access to eBay’s corporate network, the company said. The San Jose, California-based company is working with law enforcement to investigate the attack. The database was hacked sometime between late February and…