Accenture Acquires Ookla, Downdetector As Part of $1.2 Billion Deal
BeauHD / slashdot - Accenture is acquiring Downdetector parent company Ookla from Ziff Davis in a $1.2 billion deal to bolster its network analytics and visibility tools for telecoms, hyperscalers, and enterprises. "The deal, which will transfer all of Ziff Davis's Connectiv…
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Qualcomm Launches First Wi-Fi 8 Chip at MWC, Targets 6G Commercial Networks by 2029
Harkaram Grewal / implicator - Qualcomm unveils FastConnect 8800 Wi-Fi 8 chip with 11.6 Gbps speeds and a 30-company 6G coalition targeting 2029 commercial networks.
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Archer teams up with Starlink to bring internet access to its Midnight air taxi
Max Knoblauch / sherwood - The announcement marks an “industry-first collaboration,” says Archer.
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Microsoft's new Windows 11 speed test is just a link to Ookla's Speedtest via Bing — button housed in the taskbar in latest Insider Preview build
tomshardware - Amidst endless complaints over the instability and bloating nature of Windows 11, Microsoft's latest insider builds add new emojis and a taskbar feature for its beta testers. Now, you can check your internet speed by right-clicking the network icon or ope…
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Microsoft releases KB5077241 Update preview with new features for Windows 11 users
Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson / betanews - Microsoft has released a new build of Windows 11 to Windows Insiders signed up to the Release Preview Channel. The release of the KB5077241 update brings Windows 11 up to builds 26100.7918 and 26200.7918 and includes a number of important changes and – im…
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Meet Amazon’s $99 device that keeps you online when Wi-Fi fails
Kerem Gülen / dataconomy - Amazon’s eero launched the eero Signal 4G LTE on Wednesday to provide automated cellular backup for home networks during internet outages. The $99.99 device serves as a failover system that maintains connectivity for remote workers and security systems by…
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SpaceX wants to launch a constellation of a million satellites to power AI needs
Jackson Chen / engadget - Elon Musk and his aerospace company have requested to build a network that's 100 times the number of satellites that are currently in orbit. On Friday, SpaceX filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to launch a million satell…
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Back to Top / Saturday, January 31, 2026, 12:20 pm / permalink 18614 / 18 stories in 4 wks
Comcast Keeps Losing Customers Despite Price Guarantee, Unlimited Data
BeauHD / slashdot - Comcast's attempt to slow broadband customer losses still isn't stopping the bleeding as fiber and fixed wireless competition intensifies. In Q4 2025 alone, Comcast lost 181,000 broadband subscribers, even as it leans harder into wireless bundling and oth…
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Bezos' Blue Origin announces satellite rival to Musk's Starlink
bbc - Blue Origin will be focused on businesses and governments, while Starlink also offers services to individual customers.
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Verizon Offers $20 Credit After Nationwide Outage Stranded Users in SOS Mode For Hours
msmash / slashdot - Verizon is offering affected customers a $20 account credit following a nationwide network outage on Wednesday that left users across the US unable to connect, forcing phones into SOS mode for roughly ten hours before the carrier restored service around 1…
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Verizon just had a big outage. Here's what we know
John Ruwitch / npr - Verizon says a software problem caused the glitch and they are conducting a postmortem, but experts say outages are "a fact of life" these days.
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The Day the Cell Towers Died
Joanna Stern / wsj - Verizon customers across the U.S. lost service Wednesday, inconveniencing millions—including one grumpy columnist.
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Verizon Outage Knocks Out US Mobile Service, Including Some 911 Calls
Lily Hay Newman / wired - A major Verizon outage appeared to impact customers across the United States starting around noon ET on Wednesday. Calls to Verizon customers from other carriers may also be impacted.
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Competitor, Investor Response: Rival jabs and stock resilience
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Starlink Users in Iran Get Free Internet Access, Nonprofit Says
Natallie Rocha / nytimes - Under a near-total communications blackout, users of Elon Musk’s satellite service have gotten online without paying, an organization that works on web access said.
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Activists bypass blackout using Starlink resilience
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Back to Top / Tuesday, January 13, 2026, 7:21 pm / permalink 17846 / 15 stories in 7 wks
Iran’s Internet Traffic Drops to 'Near Zero' as Protests Intensify
Jason Nelson / decrypt - Cloudflare data shows a near-total blackout as demonstrations calling for regime change spread and authorities tighten control.
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Starlink is Bringing Over 9,000 Satellites Closer to Earth — Here’s Why
Austin Blake / iphoneincanada - SpaceX’s Starlink is planning a major change to how its satellites orbit Earth, with the goal of making space safer. Yesterday on New Year’s Day, Michael Nicolls, VP of Starlink Engineering at SpaceX, said the company will begin lowering thousands of sate…
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F.C.C. Chair Says Agency ‘Isn’t Independent,’ Breaking From Tradition
Cecilia Kang / nytimes - The comment from Brendan Carr, a Republican, raised concerns from lawmakers about how President Trump might use the agency.
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Amazon’s Leo Satellite Internet Introduces 1 Gbps ‘Ultra’ Antenna
Usman Qureshi / iphoneincanada - Amazon is moving forward with its satellite broadband ambitions by debuting a high-powered antenna under its newly named Amazon Leo brand.The post Amazon’s Leo Satellite Internet Introduces 1 Gbps ‘Ultra’ Antenna first appeared on iPhone in Canada.
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iPhone 17 N1 delivers the best Wi-Fi speeds of any smartphone in North America
appleinsider - New research data shows the iPhone 17 family leading North America in real-world Wi-Fi performance despite lacking some radio spectrum space.Custom Apple modems stay competitiveApple's first custom Wi-Fi chip, the N1, is now in every iPhone 17 model. The …
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SpaceX’s Starlink secures more spectrum and airlines as it passes 8 million customers
Sean O'Kane / techcrunch - The internet provider has bought more 'direct to cell' spectrum licenses from EchoStar and struck a deal with the owner of British Airways.
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