10 Tech Things You Need To Know This Morning
Jan 15, 2014, 17:43 IST
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- Portions of the FCC's "net neutrality" rules were struck down on Tuesday. "Net Neutrality" prevents companies from favoring some Internet traffic over others. Here's everything you need to know about the ruling and what it means for you.
- Here's the worst thing that could happen as a result of the Net Neutrality ruling: "We may be entering the era of sponsored data - the era of an internet that we don't directly pay for, but that we also don't control," write BuzzFeed's John Herman. "It's the old net neutrality nightmare, in other words, disguised as a gift."
- The founder of media site ViralNova.com, which had 100 million visits last month, is thinking about selling. It's a one-man operation and he's already generating six figures each month. Here's why he wants to auction it off.
- 60 Minutes interviewed Vinod Khosla about cleantech and Khosla didn't like the final product. "The errors in your story are numerous," he wrote in an open letter to CBS. CBS responded: "While we respect Mr. Khosla's view, we are not in agreement with the points he makes about our story."
- Obama happened to sit down next to an Atlantic writer in a cafe. The writer eavesdropped and heard Obama make a comment about teenagers leaving Facebook. "Facebook is so uncool even the president of the United States knows it," the writer thought.
- Facebook's newsreader and Flipboard competitor, known as "Paper," could launch this month.
- Ryan Seacrest's physical keyboard case for the iPhone, Typo, is getting good early reviews. "The company concedes that the Typo is a "niche" product, for a minority of iPhone users. I agree. But I also agree that, for that niche, this $99 case could well be a great deal," Mossberg wrote after trying it.
- A drone and a GoPro camera took stunning video of surfers in Hawaii.
- How a curious VC found Uber before anyone else, back when it was only worth $4 million. Now Uber is valued at $3.4 billion.
- A Facebook Post helped end a woman's six month long kidnapping ordeal.