Sprint says it has stopped throttling its heaviest data users on congested networks, in what appears to be the first tangible benefit of the Federal Communications Commision’s new net neutrality rules.Sprint had added a throttling clause for its top 5 percent of data users last year, saying they might see slower speeds in congested areas. But the carrier has now ended this policy, The Wall Street Journal reports, saying it wanted to steer clear of the FCC’s Open Internet Order.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Sprint says it has stopped throttling its heaviest data users on congested networks, in what appears to be the first tangible benefit of the Federal Communications Commision’s new net neutrality rules.Sprint had added a throttling clause for its top 5 percent of data users last year, saying they might see slower speeds in congested areas. But the carrier has now ended this policy, The Wall Street Journal reports, saying it wanted to steer clear of the FCC’s Open Internet Order.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Apple’s iOS 9 has plenty of major features to look forward to, such as a more intelligent Siri, transit maps, and, and side-by-side iPad apps. Just as important, however, are the little things—the minor headaches of previous iOS versions that Apple is now getting around to alleviating.+ Read all the news from WWDC +To recap, here are six iPhone and iPad annoyances that will disappear in iOS 9:1. A less-confusing shift key
Pop quiz: On the default iOS keyboard, are the letters uppercase when the shift key is gray, or white? Unless you bother to memorize, this issue has likely been a constant source of confusion since iOS 7. (The answer, by the way, is white.) As 9to5Mac notes, hitting shift in iOS 9 will toggle the letters on the keyboard between uppercase and lowercase, so there’s no ambiguity about what you’re about to type.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Microsoft is making some changes to its Windows 10 smartphone apps after provoking outrage with its initial designs.Specifically, Outlook’s Mail and Calendar apps will put common commands at the bottom of the screen, where users can easily reach them with one hand. In a blog post, Microsoft has shared some mockups of a future design, showing a bottom bar for actions such as compose, delete, search, next message, and calendar views.An earlier Windows 10 preview for smartphones had these commands closer to the top of the screen, well out of one-handed range. “Without a doubt, the highest volume of dissatisfaction we’ve heard about Outlook Mail and Calendar for phones” came from people upset with this change, wrote Albert Shum, head of the design team in Microsoft’s Operating Systems Group.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
A Colorado man says he has no regrets after unloading eight rounds into his dysfunctional Dell desktop, though he faces a fine for doing so.“I just had it,” Lucas Hinch, 38, told The Smoking Gun (via Ars Technica). Apparently the PC had thrown up one too many blue screens of death in recent months, so Hinch took it into an alley, loaded up a 9mm Hi-Point pistol that he’d purchased on Craiglist, and let the bullets fly.“It was glorious,” Hinch told the Los Angeles Times. “Angels sung on high.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Jared Newman