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FOSS Force on FacebookFeds go after wireless carriers for throttling. The U.S. Government Is Cracking Down on So-Called "Unlimited" Data Plans www.fool.com TracFone will pay the FTC $40 million to settle a claim the carrier throttled customer data on plans that were marketed as "unlimited." - Chris Neiger - Tech and Telecom January’s Top Ten fossforce.com/?p=895005 fossforce.com These are the ten most read articles on FOSS Force for the month of January, 2015. 1. Saying Goodbye to Java the Hard Way by Ken Starks. Published January 20, 2015. A look across the chasm between FOS... |
FOSS Week in Review Larry Cafiero’s suffering through a power failure, so you’re stuck with me today. The holiday fest is finally over for most — it should be for everyone by Monday morning — and it’s time for some normalcy to return to the world. Of course, these days what passes for normal is pretty damn weird, if you ask me, which you didn’t. News from the tech sector is pretty quiet, but should […] Continue reading Google Fiber, Net Neutrality & More… 
In “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” Winston Smith’s job was to rewrite the past for the Inner Party. Mainly, he made people vanish from the pages of history. Anyone who came under the party’s bad graces suddenly disappeared from all media; from all newspaper articles, books, television archives and any other mentions. In Orwell’s world, anyone declared a nonperson was completely erased. S/he never existed. According to memos leaked from the recent hack on Sony, the big studios […] Continue reading MPAA Wants to Use DMCA to Effectively Bring Back SOPA 
FOSS Week in Review Larry’s taking a much deserved day off, so I got elected to do this Week in Review. Glad to be back in the saddle. Here’s hoping that all in the U.S. had an enjoyable Thanksgiving and that those of you who don’t live here managed to make it through all of the online articles on our quaint little holiday. As always, one thing leads to another. In this case, giving thanks […] Continue reading Debian, Ubuntu Touch & More… 
There have been rumblings for some time now about Google’s search contract with Mozilla coming to an end this year. For ten years, the search giant has been the default go-to when it comes to search on Firefox, a deal which has supplied more than 80 percent of the browser’s funding. There’s been talk that Google or Mozilla wasn’t interested in renewing the deal, either because Firefox competes directly with Google’s Chrome browser or because […] Continue reading Firefox to Default to Yahoo’s Microsoft Search 
FOSS Week in Review Everyone is either at Seattle GNU/Linux Conference, Ohio LinuxFest or All Things Open, so there’s no one around to bounce off some ideas regarding what’s happening this week. Besides, if you were at any of those three events –- and if not, why not? — you probably know more than I do at this point. In any case, besides two great stories this week by my colleagues, FOSS Force editor Christine […] Continue reading Ubuntu Turns 10 & systemd Is Not Contagious |
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