FWD.us hopes for legislative immigration reform crushed

'Now, as hope for an overhaul fades, the group must reconcile Silicon Valley's high-flying ambition with the sobering lessons of Washington. 'In Silicon Valley if you don't like the taxi industry, you start Uber, you go around it,' said FWD.us President Joe Green, who helped establish the group alongside Facebook's Zuckerberg, his former college roommate. 'With politics you have to work through it, and doing that can be very challenging.'' http://politico.pro/1kxKenG 

MEXICO CITY: Fight to end telecom monopolies may be in trouble - Economy & Banking - MiamiHerald.com: "... While Slim’s Telcel will be forced to share its network infrastructure with other operators, and not charge them for calls to its own clients, the framework bill would let it enter the broadcast market after two years. Televisa, for its part, will be forced to publish its advertising rates and apply them to all customers, but it may be allowed to capture a significant portion of the market for wireless services. “At the end of the day, we thought the state was going to adequately regulate Carlos Slim and Televisa. But we see that the law ends up offering them privileges,” Denise Dresser, a columnist and commentator, told MVS Radio. In September, the Pena Nieto administration is to auction off the rights to launch two new television networks. Televisa must provide access to the winners of the two new networks on its cable and satellite systems...."

Google's Street View maps world's largest cruise ship
USA TODAY
Cruisers can now explore Royal Caribbean's 5,400-passenger Allure of the Seas onGoogle's Street View. It's the first time the panoramic-view ...

Google Fiber is coming to Overland Park, Kan.
CNNMoney
The city of Overland Park, Kan., approved an agreement Monday night to bring in GoogleFiber, following the lead of several other cities in the Kansas ...

Does Facebook break up marriages?
MarketWatch
A growing body of research links increased use of Facebook to marital discord. The latest of these studies, published in the July 2014 ...

Facebook Mood Experiment Draws FTC Complaint
InformationWeek
Electronic Privacy Information Center files a complaint against Facebook alleging that its news feed experiment deceived users and violated a 2012 ...

Google's Growing Silence on Saving Open Internet Leaves Fight to Startups
Bloomberg
Google and Facebook are “quiet and they're not spending much” to ensure Internet ... group also include EBay Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and Yahoo! Inc.

Microsoft's Windows to aid PC market revival in 2015
PCWorld
Microsoft's Windows OS could play a crucial rule in returning worldwide PC shipments to ... Microsoft could release a new OS sometime next year, which could supplant ...Apple's iOS will receive a boost from the new iPhone due later this year, and the ... How to train Google Now to show you better cards.

Microsoft warns of pending support deadlines for Windows 7, Office 2010 SP1, Windows Server ...
ZDNet
As the second half 2014 rolls in, Microsoft is stepping up its warnings for approaching support deadlines for some of its key products, including ...

Google Rates Internet Service Providers' Video Streaming Quality
Voice of America
WASHINGTON —. Google Inc. is rating Internet service providers' video streaming quality on a new website, the latest development in the fight ...

Facebook Moves Ahead In Beijing, Line Blocked
Forbes
China is extremely wary of offshore-based SNS like Facebook, Line and ... Yahoo's(Nasdaq: YHOO) photo-sharing Flickr service, and Microsoft's ...

Facebook Tries Being A TV Channel With New Mobile Video Player | TechCrunch
By Josh Constine
If you watch one of a friend's videos, Facebook will now try to get you to watch more with a new carousel of suggested videos that appears after you ...
TechCrunch » Mobile

Apple Shares 'Pride' Video Featuring Preparation for San Francisco Pride Parade - Mac Rumors
By Juli Clover
Apple CEO Tim Cook attended the event and walked alongside Apple's ... Apple has now posted a new video of the event on its YouTube channel, .... Korean Government Orders Apple and Google to Change 'No-Refund' App ... Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel for iPad Now Available · Clear for ...
MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors...

Official Gmail Blog: Thirteen new languages for Gmail
By The Gmail Team
News, tips and tricks from Google's Gmail team and friends. ... Posted by Ian Hill, Senior Project Manager, Google Localization Email is a universal ...
Gmail Blog

From Android Auto to OnLive: how video is becoming the secret glue of connected devices — Tech News and Analysis: "In this move towards virtualization, video streams have become the secret glue that connects screens and devices without the need for complicated, platform-specific implementations. And the upside of rendering video instead of code could be that devices have to be replaced less often while getting more frequent updates."

36-Year-Old NASA Probe's Engines Successfully Fired Up by Private Team - Scientific American: "An old NASA spacecraft under the control of a private team fired its thrusters yesterday (July 2) for the first time in a generation. NASA's International Sun-Earth Explorer 3 probe (ISEE-3), which the agency retired in 1997, performed the maneuver in preparation for a larger trajectory correction next week. The spacecraft hadn't fired its engines since 1987, ISEE-3 Reboot Project team members said. It took several attempts and days to perform the roll maneuver because ISEE-3 was not responding to test commands. But this time, controllers got in touch. They increased the roll rate from 19.16 revolutions per minute to 19.76 RPM, putting it within mission specifications for trajectory corrections...."

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