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  Microsoft releases free Office apps for iPhone and iPad, Android coming soon November 6, 2014 at 11:45 am

  In a rather surprising move, Microsoft has made the Office suite of apps — Word, Excel, and PowerPoint — free to download and use on the iPad and iPhone. Previously, an Office 365 subscription was required. If all that wasn’t exciting enough, Microsoft also announced that the free Office suite is coming to Android, with beta access starting today.
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  Verizon threatens to sue FCC if it pushes ahead with net neutrality, reserves right to continue gouging customers November 6, 2014 at 10:26 am

  Verizon’s legal counsel has offered up his explanation for why the FCC shouldn’t regulate the Internet — if it does, Verizon might sue. Again.
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  Verizon’s latest privacy wrecking ploy: An unblockable supercookie that lets anyone track you on the internet November 5, 2014 at 1:30 pm

  Over the last week, it has emerged that Verizon Wireless has been silently tracking around 100 million mobile customers using a supercookie that can’t be opted out of. The tracking cookie, as you can probably guess, allows Verizon to track almost everything that you do on the internet, and then sell that behavioral data to advertisers. Even worse, get this: Verizon’s implementation of the supercookie is so sloppy that any third party can also use the cookie to track your behavior.
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  New Google, and Larry Page’s continuing mission to explore strange new technologies November 5, 2014 at 9:36 am

  Google’s co-founder and CEO, Larry Page, has admitted that it’s time to find a new mission statement. The company’s mission, ‘to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful,’ along with its motto of ‘don’t be evil’ — both coined more than a decade ago, in more peaceful times — seem idealistically quaint in a new era of robotics acquisitions, anti-monopoly investigations, and research into indefinite life extension and other futuristic biotech.
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  An interview with Zoltan Istvan, leader of the Transhumanist Party and 2016 presidential contender October 31, 2014 at 12:32 pm

  Zoltan Istvan, founder of the Transhumanist Party, has announced that he will be a contender in the 2016 presidential race. Having set forth many bold ideas in his recent prolific writings, he now embarks on a new mission to bring transhumanist philosophy to politics. We interview him to find out about his views on religion, politics, society, and more.
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  Why the iPhone 6 doesn’t have a sapphire screen October 29, 2014 at 11:15 am

  A new report from DisplayMate claims that sapphire glass is simply too reflective to match up well against the latest from Corning and Apple. Will we ever see high-end products shipping sapphire glass?
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  FTC sues AT&T over misleading and deceptive use of ‘Unlimited’ data plans October 29, 2014 at 7:19 am

  The FTC has filed a lawsuit against AT&T, alleging that the company’s treatment of its ‘Unlimited’ customers is discriminatory and illegal.
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  Gmail Inbox: Hands on with Google’s latest attempt to fix email October 23, 2014 at 2:12 pm

  Ah, email. Essentially unchanged since its inception some 40 years ago, email — with a few extensions along the way to support other character sets and multimedia attachments — has had remarkable staying power. That hasn’t stopped Google trying to replace it or fix it, though — and the new Gmail Inbox is a pretty good effort, too.
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  FCC begins research into 24GHz for gigabit ultra-dense 5G mobile networks October 22, 2014 at 12:46 pm

  Last week, the FCC published a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) to investigate the possibility of using frequencies above 24GHz for cellular wireless systems — specifically, for next-gen mobile data standards such as 5G. Given how we’ve essentially run out of spectrum in the cellular sweet spot, and how Europe and Asia have already started on their own 5G inquiries, it’s high time for the FCC to dig into the possibility of super-fast cellular networks that are as capable as standard wireline broadband.

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