National media news ICT headlines sort into these seven categories:
1. Applications: What users do with ICT
2. End Points: The hardware & software users interface with to access applications
3. Plumbing: The pipes & boxes that connect users to applications & each other
4. Security: That which provides for user privacy
5. Future: What's coming
6. Regulatory: That which provides for both fairness & freedom
7. Marketing & Misc: ICT commerce & unclassified
Application News
Messaging App Line’s Next Step: A Line-Branded Smartphone? http://on.wsj.com/1Fbxq5x WSJ 3/31/15
Twitter’s Periscope live video app kills the press conference http://wapo.st/1NR7coc WaPo 3/26/15
As Twitter Introduces Periscope, Tech Titans Bet on Live Streaming Video http://nyti.ms/1Io2Eap NYT 3/27/15
Using social media for your federal agency Or any big company department that interfaces the public http://wapo.st/1Cxjn7Y Example https://storify.com/FAFSA WaPo 3/18/15
Microsoft Backs Further Away From Selling Software Free upgrade to Windows 10 http://nyti.ms/18L7Cir NYT 3/18/15
E-signature, mobile tools in Adobe PDF subscription service For businesses & consumers http://wapo.st/1FFP5ke WaPo 3/17/15
Facebook Announces a Payments Feature for Its Messenger App System to rival PayPal? http://nyti.ms/1FJcCkh NYT 3/17/15
Will Your Boss "Gamify" Your Job to make you more productive? http://nyti.ms/1Lxboh2 NYT 3/15/15
Microsoft Has Its ‘Groove Back,’ Say Some CIOs http://on.wsj.com/1I0Af7o WSJ 3/9/15
Slack, the Office Messaging App That May Finally Sink Email But are workers ready to see everything every other worker says at work? http://nyti.ms/1MLOcJ2 NYT 3/11/15
What's Office Messaging? HipChat videos show a work day beyond meetings & email http://bit.ly/193OImK YT 2/25/15
End Points
Sprint to Test Home Delivery of New Phones CEO tries to keep subscribers with labor-intensive offer and 5,000 Sprint-branded cars http://on.wsj.com/1H0wY96 WSJ 4/13/15
Google’s Cheapest Chromebooks Yet: $149 Hisense and Haier Laptops http://on.wsj.com/1Io4V5r WSJ 3/31/15
Surface 3: Microsoft’s Budget Tablet Gets Full Windows 8.1 http://on.wsj.com/1a1MPYc WSJ 3/31/15
Amazon Dash: Order products with the touch of a button http://wapo.st/1c4f9dX WaPo 3/31/15
Microsoft resurrects the Surface with third try http://bit.ly/1Ff3nXM CW 3/31/13
Microsoft is killing off the Internet Explorer brand IE will live on, but only as plumbing for Windows http://bit.ly/1B2rHqQ Verge 3/17/15
BlackBerry Unveils Security-Focused Tablet Developed with IBM & Samsung to increase enterprise & government market share http://on.wsj.com/1I0uabd WSJ 3/14/15
Smartphones on a Budget How to save money with year-old and non-contract phones http://nyti.ms/1GrIqIY NYT 2/25/15
Get the Most From Your Google Android Phonehttp://nyti.ms/1BRyJ5i NYT 1/21/15
Getting the Most Out of Apple iOS 8http://nyti.ms/1GrOils NYT 1/14/15
Device Syncing: Call From Computers and Text From Tablets http://nyti.ms/1BXTFZS NYT 1/11/15
Review: Google Chromebook Pixel by NYT's Molly Wood http://nyti.ms/1I1z7Aw NYT 1/11/15
Chromebooks Win Buyers Ready to Live in the Cloud by NYT's Molly Wood http://nyti.ms/1AJOhp6 NYT 5/21/14
Plumbing
Google Fiber forcing rivals to lower pricing When Google comes to town it's good news for consumers http://zd.net/1FGtuKf 4/13/15
Google Pressures AT&T’s Broadband Prices http://on.wsj.com/1CiY7ye WSJ 3/30/15
Charter Cable Buys Bright House for $10.4 billion http://on.wsj.com/1DfWG8y WSJ 3/31/15
Master Agency Responses http://bit.ly/1aGFApC CP 4/2/15
Telecom’s Next Goal: Defining 5G Industry pools knowledge in race to go beyond fast download speeds http://on.wsj.com/19ATcSW WSJ 3/9/15
Google Wireless Plan Has One Catch New Service Will Only Work on Latest Nexus 6 Smartphone http://on.wsj.com/1x2ha3M WSJ 3/5/15
T-Mobile Takes Aim at Business Market Carrier hopes to lure business customers with $16 flat-fee pricing plan http://on.wsj.com/1Grc68V WSJ 3/15/15
T-Mobile Aims for Business Customers http://nyti.ms/193LXBD NYT 3/18/15
IoT/M2M
IBM to Invest $3 Billion with Weather Channel, others on IoT projects http://on.wsj.com/1E04r35 WSJ 3/31/15
IBM Scores Weather Data Deal and Starts IoT Unit http://nyti.ms/1GHYxEf NYT 3/31/15
IBM’s creates business unit for the Internet of Things http://wapo.st/1CRfp8Q WaPo 3/31/15
For Hardware Makers, Sharing Their Secrets Is Now Part of the Business Plan http://nyti.ms/1GkZ947 NYT 3/29/15
The Internet of "Moving" Things has arrived. Check out this NPR story and then this video to learn more. NPR 3/2/15
Big Data
Twitter’s Evolving Plans to Make Money From Its Data Stream http://nyti.ms/1zai7CQ NYT 4/13/15
White House first chief data scientist is no stranger to Washington http://wapo.st/1agV3vM WaPo 3/27/15
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IBM Introduces Twitter-Fueled Data Services for Business to help predict future customer behavior http://nyti.ms/1Grs8ja NYT 3/17/15
Facebook Readies New-Breed Servers, Aided by Intel Company has been pushing hardware manufacturers to improve their designs http://on.wsj.com/1I0zNGi WSJ 3/10/15
Security
French Broadcaster TV5 Monde Recovers After Hacking http://nyti.ms/1CBoG2u NYT 4/13/15
Wall St. Is Told to Tighten Digital Security of Partners http://nyti.ms/1DBsOUi NYT 4/13/15
China Is Said to Use Powerful New "Great Cannon" Weapon to Censor Internet http://nyti.ms/1Nyv3hF NYT 4/13/15
AT&T will pay $25 million after call-center workers sold customer data http://wapo.st/1Eum1MX WaPo 4/13/15
Secrecy on the Set: Hollywood Embraces Digital Security http://nyti.ms/1FinLVA NYT 3/30/15
China has weaponized the Great Firewall, says a free-speech group http://wapo.st/1PgtDGU WaPo 3/30/15
U.S. Coding Website GitHub Hit With Cyberattack http://on.wsj.com/1y1j6df WSJ 3/29/15
Slack Gets Hacked as Start-Up Technologies Become Targets http://nyti.ms/1O4a8zP NYT 3/27/15
Dems divided on federal anti-hacking bill Don't want to weaken stronger state laws or remove lawsuit threat http://bit.ly/1DCy3o3 3/18/15
Blue Cross Discloses Data Breach Cyberattack Exposed Medical Data http://nyti.ms/1LwB4u4 NYT 3/17/15
Is using email encryption suspicious? Half of Americans say yes, according to Pew http://wapo.st/1MLEhTR WaPo 3/17/15
Corporation Under Fire for Monitoring Students’ Twitter Posts Corporate due diligence or spying on children? http://nyti.ms/1MLMOWS NYT 3/17/15
Police Departments Deploy Fake Cell Towers to Track Cell Calls Are they listening to your business calls? http://nyti.ms/1GruMWb NYT 3/15/15
Cell Phone Encrypting Software Does it work? (Video) http://nyti.ms/1O7Hz5t NYT 2/19/14
5 Reasons MSPs Love Time-Based Cloud Retention/BDR http://bit.ly/1yaYjEy
Future
The Path Toward Tomorrow’s Internethttp://nyti.ms/1H2cPQz NYT 3/30/15
Drones Beaming Web Access Are in the Stars for Facebook http://nyti.ms/1JkLfgv NYT 3/26/15
How Long to Get 50 Million Users? Infographic shows 75 years for phones & 35 days for angry birds http://on.wsj.com/1Cxc7dQ WSJ 3/13/15
The Business Phone Call is Back WSJ article discusses how new business phone companies (Switch, Twilio, Talko, Biba) are taking customers from old business phone companies (AT&T, Cisco, Alcatel) http://on.wsj.com/18JdIQn WSJ 3/12/15
Regulatory
Net neutrality will be fair game for lawsuits starting next week http://wapo.st/1Dbxwql WaPo 4/13/15
T-Mobile Emerges a Wireless Auction Winner http://on.wsj.com/1H2all8 WSJ 3/30/15
Harry Reid’s retirement could give tech companies a huge leg up in the Senate http://wapo.st/1Gl18oN WaPo 3/27/15
FCC Nears Opening Some Airwaves for Cheaper Wireless Use http://on.wsj.com/1ySA7Bi WSJ 3/27/15
Congress wants to open up vast troves of federal airwaves for your cellphone http://wapo.st/1O46eqD WaPo 3/26/15
How to end a fight over who should regulate Internet providers http://wapo.st/1CaRf6K WaPo 3/26/15
Republicans can’t overturn the FCC’s new net neutrality rules without this Democrat And he’s not playing along. http://wapo.st/1MR5Glu WaPo 3/19/15
Verizon pays $3.4 million after failing to fix a 911 outage in time http://engt.co/18Lezjn 3/18/15
Net Neutrality Explainer Video from WSJ If you're building a tutorial page of ICT terms, include this video http://nyti.ms/1EwHnYf WSJ 3/13/15
Marketing & Misc.
The Gap Between Auto Dealers and Social Media http://nyti.ms/1I6Hx9t NYT 4/13/15
The 12 Tech Nuisances That Annoy Us Most Endless notifications, uneven updates, short-lived batteries and other modern headaches http://on.wsj.com/1DBxWZR WSJ 3/10/15