Readly, which offers users unlimited access to over 800 magazines for $9.99 per month, launched their Windows Phone app this week in the Windows Phone Store. The app joins the previously released version for Windows 8.1 users.

BlackBerry has a long standing history of winning design awards for their BlackBerry smartphones and recently, film producer and music composer Ryan Freeman of Freeman House Productions, based in Toronto, Canada, contacted BlackBerry with a request to feature Joseph Hofer, Senior Industrial Designer at BlackBerry, in what was then an upcoming short film series called The Guild Series.

The Guild Series aims to offer an inside look at the creative process through a number of categories including a Music Producer, City Planner, Photographer, Graphic Designer, Fashion Designer and in this case, an Industrial Designer whose recent work includes the Q10 and Z10, as well the BlackBerry Passport.

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No-one ever talks about great customer service. As someone who spent a past life working in retail, I’m only too aware of this. Not once would you hear of one of your customers seeking out the manager to praise your efforts, no matter how much you had done. But should a customer be unhappy, well, everyone heard about it. That seems to be the way, regardless of the company. “Oh, xxx company is terrible, worst service ever.” Perhaps because we’re usually calling for help when something bad has happened, or we’re in a fix we just can’t get out of.

So I want to talk about the good. I want to speak a little about how the UK Microsoft Surface support team gave excellent service and helped me out when all I saw was an expensive bill headed my way. My Surface Pro 3 got a cracked screen.

AT&T has finally come around to getting the Lumia Denim update, at least for one of its flagship devices, the Lumia 1520.

Windows Phone 8.1.1 (build 14219) and firmware 02540.00019.14484.37028 are now live starting at 1 pm ET. Users can head into Settings > Phone Update and ‘check for update’ to grab the necessary files. If you are enrolled in the Preview for Developers program, you can leave it enabled.

The Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 today to regulate broadband providers like telephone and cable utilities under Title II of the Telecommunications Act. The FCC will also enforce a set of net neutrality rules for those companies. The changes were first proposed earlier this month.

The Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 today to regulate broadband providers like telephone and cable utilities under Title II of the Telecommunications Act. The FCC will also enforce a set of net neutrality rules for those companies. The changes were first proposed earlier this month.

The new rules would allow the FCC to ban both fixed and mobile broadband companies from slowing down or outright blocking access to websites and online services. It would also ban the use of data “fast lanes” provided by ISPs to services like Netflix.

As expected, the 3-2 vote was along political party lines, with Democrat FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler voting in the affirmative, along with commissioners Mignon Clyburn and Jessica Rosenworcel. Republican commissioners Michael O’Rielly and Ajit Pai voted against the new rules and changes. Even with this vote, the FCC’s power to enforce these rules will almost certainly be challenged by broadband providers in court.

Source: The Verge

The Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 today to regulate broadband providers like telephone and cable utilities under Title II of the Telecommunications Act. The FCC will also enforce a set of net neutrality rules for those companies. The changes were first proposed earlier this month.

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The Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 today to regulate broadband providers like telephone and cable utilities under Title II of the Telecommunications Act. The FCC will also enforce a set of net neutrality rules for those companies. The changes were first proposed earlier this month.

The Lumia Denim firmware update is once again expanding its reach to more Lumia models in India. The download is now rolling out to the Lumia 1520 and the Lumia 930 smartphones in that country.

Locking down your Android is easier than you think

We’ve talk a bit about encryption recently, specifically Android’s full disk encryption setting. You can read a bit about what encryption on Android is and how it works here, and you can have a look here to see why you may or may not want to use it and how it affects you. Right now, let’s have a look at how to enable it if you decide you need (or want) it.