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• FCC report: U.S. broadband speeds tripled between 2011 and 2014

  02-01-2016 19:28
  When it comes to broadband Internet connection speeds in the United States, there’s both good news and bad news to report. The good news is that average download speeds for American broadband subscribers has tripled between 2011 and 2014. The bad news? The US still has a lot of catching up to do.
  According to the FCC’s fifth Measuring Broadband America report, the average download speed in the US hit 31 megabits per second (Mbps) in September 2014. That compares favorably to an
  
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• Windows 10 powers 164M PCs at end of '15

  02-01-2016 14:10
  
  After five months, Microsoft's Windows 10 powers about 164 million PCs, data published Friday showed.
  Windows 10's user share -- an estimate of the portion of all personal computers worldwide that ran the OS -- grew one percentage point in December to 10%, according to metrics vendor Net Applications.
  The new operating system's user share increase last month was slightly less than the month before, continuing a trend of slowing growth. December's month-over-month increase was below November's 1
  
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• What Apple could learn from Windows 10

  02-01-2016 12:09
  
  Microsoft sought reinvent its flagship operating system with Windows 10 by backing away from some of the extreme user interface changes that characterized Windows 8. Windows 10 introduces the concept of Windows-as-a-service, bridges all manner of devices from PCs to tablets to phones, and introduced a range of new features when it arrived last July.
  Despite years of being criticized for copying Apple and for some of the missteps of Windows 8, Microsoft has increasingly shown a real sense of cre
  
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• Microsoft mirrors rivals, pledges to warn customers of state-backed hacks after leaving users in the dark

  02-01-2016 01:31
  
  Microsoft this week announced that it, too, would alert users when they are beset by state-sponsored cyber attacks, following the lead of Google, Facebook and, most recently, Yahoo.
  "We will now notify you if we believe your account has been targeted or compromised by an individual or group working on behalf of a nation state," said Scott Charney, the Microsoft executive who runs the firm's Trustworthy Computing group, in a post to a company blog Wednesday.
  According to Reuters, Microsoft put t
  
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