Outage at cloud company Fastly hobbles swaths of internet
Dozens of high-traffic websites including the New York Times, CNN, Twitch and Reddit could not be reached Tuesday morning.
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FTC, six states sue Frontier for delivering internet that’s too slow
Involved in the suit are attorneys general from Indiana, Arizona, Michigan, North Carolina, Wisconsin and the district attorneys’ offices of Los Angeles County and Riverside County on behalf of California.
Website operators must be strategic, authentic to rank high in Google results
It might alarm many business owners to learn that the vast majority of website pages get zero traffic from the world’s largest search engines, most notably Google.
Emergency program to give people $50 off monthly internet bill
It’s unclear how long the money will last but it’s expected to be several months. Tens of millions of people are eligible.
Broadband ‘imperative for our professional and educational lives’
Most Indiana leaders and politicians agree that providing every Hoosier with a high-speed broadband connection is a worthy goal, if not a high priority. But they disagree over how to accomplish and pay for it.
Justices uphold FCC’s easing of local media ownership limits
The decision comes as newspaper and broadcasting industries say they need the changes to deal with growing competition from the internet and cable companies.
Intelligent Fiber Network to be acquired by Colorado firm
Boulder, Colorado-based Zayo Group Holdings Inc. expects to close the transaction during the second half of 2021. IFN officials say they are confident the deal will grow the firm’s presence here.
Coronavirus relief bill includes $7.2 billion to target ‘homework gap’
The funding will allow elementary schools, high schools and libraries to purchase Wi-Fi hotspots, modems and routers for students, and also fund the Internet service that those devices use.
Google vows no new user tracking in Chrome ad data changes
The digital giant has been working on proposals to remove from Chrome so-called third party cookies, which are snippets of code used by a website’s advertisers to record browsing history in order to show users personalized ads.
FCC announces billions of dollars to provide rural areas with broadband access
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai called the awards the “single largest step ever taken to bridge the digital divide.”
When school is home and home is school, which rules prevail?
In the learn-from-home world, educators are encountering friction when extending regular classroom discipline and decorum into young people’s previously private spaces.
Global watchdog proposes tax overhaul for Big Tech
If countries don’t all agree on the new tax rules, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development warned there’s a risk of a global trade war triggered by individual countries launching their own digital services taxes to help their recovery from the pandemic.
Four Indiana cities sue Netflix, Hulu for unpaid franchise fees
The lawsuit, filed this month filed by the cities of Indianapolis, Fishers, Valparaiso and Evansville, argues that major video streaming services must pay a 5% franchise fee of gross revenue to the localities where their customers reside.
Amazon closer to launching satellites, upping internet reach
Amazon received government approval to put more than 3,200 satellites into orbit with the goal of beaming internet service to earth. The company said it will spend $10 billion on the initiative.
BELL: Equal access to broadband needed to shrink equity gaps for Hoosiers
Our society already relies on the internet for education, jobs and personal needs, yet 666,000 people in Indiana live without access to high-speed internet.
FCC calls hours-long T-Mobile service outage ‘unacceptable’
The company blamed an internet-traffic issue that caused problems with its network for the outage, which began at noon Monday and lasted until early Tuesday.
IU professor builds IoT-based system to save factories millions on energy bills
Amrou Awaysheh, an IU Kelley School of Business assistant professor of operations management, is building an IoT-based system he says can save factories $100 million annually in verified energy savings.
Simon Property to invest $280M in online shopping venture
The Indianapolis-based shopping mall giant announced Wednesday morning that it is partnering with Rue Gilt Groupe to create an online site that will allow users to shop for more than 300,000 products from at least 2,000 designers.
Aesthetics of 5G wireless small cell towers spark concern in suburbs
The next generation of wireless internet will provide super-fast service, longer battery lives and a wealth of capabilities. But it comes at what some view as an aesthetic cost.
New product, partnership set ClearObject on path to growth
ClearObject, a Fishers-based tech firm, this week rolled out its latest product and announced a new partnership with computing giant IBM that company officials said will help significantly grow their business.