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Nighthawk AC1900 WiFi 4G LTE Modem Router combines extreme WiFi speeds with your mobile broadband Internet, and offers fail-over connection for business-critical services

Bracknell, UK — June 28, 2016 — NETGEAR®, Inc., a leading provider of networking equipment for the home and small businesses, is adding the NETGEAR Nighthawk® AC1900 WiFi 4G LTE Modem Router (R7100LG) to its expanding portfolio of innovative mobile broadband products using the latest super-fast 4G LTE technology. With this new Nighthawk LTE Router, you need never be without high-speed Internet at home or your small office even in places where cable or DSL wired connectivity is unavailable, inconvenient, or slow. (more…)

AT&T will launch up to three internet-based TV streaming services by the end of this year. The giant mobile carrier now wants to take its acquisition DirecTV over the top.

The cable giant company was acquired by the telecom company last summer and now it is on the verge of announcing three brand new pay TV streaming services in Q4 2016. The subscriptions will see AT&T users enjoy pay TV content over the internet with no need of the usual contracts, set-top boxes or even satellite dishes. (more…)

To speed up the rollout, Google will use existing fiber rather than build a network from scratch. But that means only certain neighborhoods will be eligible.

Google will soon provide San Francisco its high-speed Internet. San Francisco has joined a half-dozen other cities in queue for Google’s high-speed fiber Internet service.

Google will bring the service to some apartments, condos and affordable housing properties in San Francisco, the search giant said in a blog post Wednesday. But the rollout comes with a catch. (more…)

Broadband providers inform consumers about online tracking and give them a “meaningful choice” about whether their data will be used for behaviorally targeted ads, the online publishers’ organization Digital Content Next says today in a letter to the Federal Communications Commission.

“In light of their access to sensitive information about consumers, we urge the FCC to require broadband providers to provide consumers with transparency and meaningful choice with regard to the collection and use of personal information especially when this data will be used for purposes that fall outside of a consumer’s expectation and outside of the context of the interaction where the data was collected,” the organization writes. “Consumers should have the ability to exercise choice via a mechanism that is easy to use, persistent and universal.” (more…)

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Even politicians post things they regret later!

Twitter on Thursday announced the return of Politwoops.  Politwoops, the site that aggregated deleted tweets from politicians and their staff, was blocked by Twitter in June.

Under heavy public shaming Twitter graciously reached an accord with The Sunlight Foundation and The Open State Foundation, to allow Politwoops to continue exploiting Twitter private user content for political gain. (more…)

Before another court challenge, a slew of experts explain why the FCC’s net neutrality rules won’t work.

In August of 2015, a diverse collection of engineers, economists, civil rights organizations, manufacturers, businesses and legal scholars filed briefs with the Washington, D.C. Court of Appeals arguing why the Internet should not be subject to the Federal Communications Commission’s new open Internet rules – regulations copy-pasted from the telephone network of the 1930s. The briefs highlighted several arguments against the FCC’s decision, including the negative impact on the future of health care and education, First Amendment violations and how the new rules harm digitally underserved and unserved communities. All told, a broad cross section of Americans told the court that the unelected agency’s misguided decision will diminish America’s world-class Internet, unless it’s overturned. (more…)

One sparkler is fun, but 10,000 igniting at the same time is something you have to see.  It may be tough to get a hold of ordinance like sky-rockets, roman candles, and fire crackers these days.  But, sparklers are a bit more easily attained.  Get a few (hundred) boxes and you can ring in the New Year with a bang! (more…)

Few things are as exciting as shooting something out of a cannon…but try shooting a GoPro using a 3D-printed projectile!  This very cool video is going viral as hell, showing two guys doing just that.  David and Ryan, created a homemade cannon with their GoPro as a cannon ball.  The footage it shoots on its way up, and then back down where they catch it, is astounding! (more…)

Sidecar has announced it’s shutting down at the end of the year. Company chief executive Sunil Paul explained in a Medium post (not the company’s official blog, strangely) that the move was intended to help pave the way so his team could “work on strategic alternatives and lay the groundwork for the next big thing.” All ride and delivery operations will shut down at 2 p.m. Pacific time on December 31, 2015.
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