How Do We Fix Crappy U.S. Broadband?
According to a recent study, broadband access in the U.S. has dropped to 19th place worldwide. The recent passage of the stimulus bill will provide about $7 billion to improve it. But why is U.S....
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ZillionTV May Be the Set-Top Streaming Box You've Been Looking For
Web-based television content streaming is hot in the news at the moment, courtesy of events like the Hulu-Boxee shut down. And now there's the new ZillionTV set-top box to add to the mix, and it's a...
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AOL CEO Tim Armstrong Has Job for 100 Days, Can't Shut Up About It
At the end of his first 100 days as CEO last week, Armstrong granted multiple interviews, shedding some light on what comes next for AOL. Fortunately, we read them so you don't have to. Obligatory Bio...
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The Web's Untouchable Ghost Towns
Spammers can only operate for so long before they're found out and shut down. Once eradicated, they leave a virtual ghost town behind them. Scores of Internet addresses have been abandoned this way,...
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FCC's Broadband Measuring Tool Gets 150,000 Takers, Shows West-Coast Bias
A week after the FCC debuted a beta tool for consumers to measure their broadband speeds, we've got the first set of stats. 150,000 people decided to avail themselves of the widget, available on...
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Spotify VP Gives the Nod to U.S. Launch in Third Quarter of 2010
The Stateside launch for Spotify is firming up and could happen in late summer. The music streaming service currently only available in some European countries is in talks with U.S. Internet and...
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Sweden Getting World's First Pirate-Friendly ISP
The new pirate political party in Sweden, which takes a stern anti-copyright stance, and helps out torrent-sharer Pirate Bay, now plans to launch the world's first "pirate ISP." It'll be anonymized,...
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Sweden's Pirate ISP Offers Aid to Keep WikiLeaks Afloat
The Swedish political Pirate Party has gone and embroiled itself in some hot news: It's offering servers and hosting to WikiLeaks, the "whistleblowing" site that's just published thousands of...
View ArticleiFive: First Stem Cell Treatment Trial, Google's Wind Farm, Ngmoco Bought,...
Spare a thought for Gray Collins, as you ponder the prospect of all those work-related emails you've got to send: Collins is in the middle of a non-stop Twitterthon for charity. His tweet burden is one...
View ArticleiFive: ISP Data Retention, Facebook Credits Grows, Groceries from Amazon,...
Hey, check out our shiny new i5 logo! Now check out today's early tech and innovation news!1. The Justice Department is moving Congress to enforce mandatory data retention by ISPs on every U.S....
View ArticleiFive: Egypt Online Again, Bing Copies Google, Google's Hotpot Goes Global,...
Get a jump start on the day's goings-on with our summary of the early innovation news:It's Groundhog Day, folks...so let's hope the little furry guy in Punxsutawney predicts an early Spring, and an end...
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The Real ISP Report Card: Why BitTorrent's Network Performance Data Is "Miles...
San Francisco-based BitTorrent, which now boasts more active users than Hulu and Netflix combined, has been developing a skunkworks project that could serve as the true national and international...
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Obama's Twitter Townhall, AP To Open N. Korea Bureau, N. Korea To Open Photo...
The White House takes to Twitter for a townhall. Plus: AP news agency would be the first permanent Western-run photo and text bureau ever to operate in the North Korean capital and 100,000 reasons to...
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FBI's First iPhone App, Apple Vs. Fakery, Rdio Beats Spotify To iPad, Intel...
This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day.FBI Launches First iPhone App. "Child ID" lets parents store details that they'd need to share with the authorities if...
View ArticleGreece Orders Blocking Of Music Piracy Sites
News updates all day from yourFast Company editors.Greece's courts have just ordered the nation's ISPs to block a short list of websites that it says are contributing to music piracy. Strangely, the...
View ArticleFrance's Piracy Law Gets Its First Scalp And Proves Its Unworkability
It was a brace of Rihanna tracks that the culprit with a 150-euro fine, rather than the entire oeuvre of Carla Bruni, Sarkozy's missusAnti-piracy legislation passed by France's much-missed ex-President...
View ArticleWill FreedomPop Disrupt U.S. Broadband With Free Internet?
After buying a router for $89, customers get 1GB of free data each month.FreedomPop, which calls itself "America's new free Internet company," has just announced the release of its Burst wired/wireless...
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