The FCC's "middle ground" approach all but guarantees that the decision over how Internet traffic should be regulated will be fought in the courts.
By Dan Mitchell, contributor
FORTUNE -- The Senate on Thursday rejected a Republican attempt to overturn the Federal Communication Commission's rules on net neutrality, which bar Internet providers -- mainly, giant phone and cable companies -- from discriminating among different types of traffic on their networks. The 52-46 MORE
Nov 11, 2011 12:06 PM ET
A story -- just one story -- from the 1995 "lost interview" showing at theaters tonight
Video still: Robert Cringely
Steve Jobs really turned on the charm for Robert X. Cringely in the newly rediscovered 70 minute interview shot for Cringely's 1996 PBS special "Triumph of the Nerds" and showing in 19 U.S. cities tonight.
My favorite part part is when Jobs answers the question "What's important to you in the development of MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 11, 2011 11:24 AM ET
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"Over half of the U.S. doesn't pay anything for music each year." -- Pandora CTO Tom Conrad (
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Nov 11, 2011 10:42 AM ET
Thousands left empty-handed as scalpers rush to feed a hungry gray market
Photo: M.I.C.Gadget
Even with the support of Chinese riot police, police dogs, private security guards and an elaborate grid of metal barricades, Apple (AAPL) could barely contain the chaos when the gates of the Hong Kong Apple Store opened Friday morning and customers began to run up the store's spiral glass staircase.
An Apple-sanctioned queue of roughly 1,250 were allowed MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 11, 2011 6:59 AM ET
Police were called in Wednesday to restore order after fighting broke out
Funneling line-sitters into holding pens. Video: Andrew Leyden
"I can't begin to accurately describe the scene on the walkways outside the Hong Kong Apple Store."
So begins the dispatch by Penguin Six's Andrew Leyden writing 24 hours before the first scheduled launch of Apple's (AAPL) iPhone 4S in China.
According to Leyden, police broke up a disorganized mob of 400 line sitters Wednesday MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 10, 2011 3:59 PM ET
It may be the ultimate recycling project: taking retired shipping containers and repurposing them as buildings. SG Blocks thinks it can make the proposition into big business.
By Beth Kowitt, writer-reporter
FORTUNE -- It may be the ultimate recycling project: taking retired shipping containers and repurposing them as buildings. It's not uncommon to see these makeshift structures informally in use around ports or construction sites, but now Paul Galvin is trying to MORE
Nov 10, 2011 3:28 PM ET
But CEO Cook, according to Walter Isaacson, is Apple's new decider-in-chief
Serwer and Isaacson. Photo: Tanner Curtis
One of the questions that lingers at the end of Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs is who at Apple (AAPL) is going to make the thousands of product decisions -- large and small -- that used to be made by Jobs himself.
The issue is especially problematic because no one at Apple has the MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 10, 2011 11:46 AM ET
The country's IT industry boomed by providing left-brained services like coding and call support. Now, it's getting ready to cash in on the creative needs of the world's entertainment industries.
By Vishesh Kumar, contributor
FORTUNE -- India's IT industry emerged as a major global force over the last decade by providing all manner of left-brained services, from coding to call support. Now, as entertainment becomes more and more computational thanks to complex MORE
Nov 10, 2011 11:10 AM ET
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* According to The Atlantic, Amazon (AMZN) bought a voice-to-text tech startup called Yap. Meanwhile, Amazon Web Services opened a new data center in Umatilla, Oregon. Customers who host their services at the Oregon location will pay 10% less than if they use the company's data centers in California MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Nov 10, 2011 8:01 AM ET
Chinese consumers rate Macs as most desirable, although only 7% can afford one
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In August, according to IDC, China overtook the U.S. as the world's largest consumer of personal computers.
On Wednesday, Morgan Stanley issued the results of a survey suggesting that Apple (AAPL) is the best positioned of all PC manufacturers to capitalize on the boom.
Summarizing the results of a proprietary Alphawise survey of 1,553 consumers in 16 MORE
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