Social Media, Connectivity & Communications

A simple change in security software recently made Twitter more accessible to the blind and visually impaired.

Intellectual property attorney Emile Loza explains on her blog that Facebook announced earlier this week that it would start to let users register vanity URLs in the form: http://www.facebook.com/username.

NetChoice, a group backed by AOL, Yahoo, eBay, Oracle and other online companies, launched a campaign Tuesday against proposed laws across the country that it says would harm e-commerce and consumers.

"Just because we live in rural America doesn’t mean we shouldn’t have broadband," says Roper, a third-generation peanut farmer. "We’re all Americans. We shouldn’t be treated less than anyone else."

The FCC called the 83-page report a "starting point for the development of policies to deliver broadband to rural areas and restore economic growth and opportunity for Americans residing and working in those areas."

For an autistic child, the ability to whip out an iPhone and talk to friends brings "this very hard-to-quantify cool factor."

“Anything using RF energy — we have the right to inspect it to make sure it is not causing interference,” says FCC spokesman David Fiske. That includes devices like Wi-Fi routers that use unlicensed spectrum, Fiske says.

It does things with online information that Google does not. Here are our impressions of the current version of Wolfram Alpha.

We have to stick together, and keep the geek community thriving.

I’m eager to ditch my 3G USB modem for MiFi once my own Verizon contract expires in several months. MiFi isn’t flawless. But it’s a smart, sensible solution for road warriors tired of hunting down Wi-Fi.