Apple Pay has had explosive growth since its launch a few months ago, says CEO Tim Cook. Bryan Thomas, Getty Images Apple’s new payment system, which will soon be available on the new Apple Watch, is on a tear, according to Apple CEO Tim Cook. In just three months, the contactless payment application, which uses …

In case you heard otherwise, Netflix still supports the Federal Communications Commission’s move to regulate the Internet like a public utility. “Netflix supports the FCC’s action last week to adopt Title II in ensuring consumers get the Internet they paid for without interference by ISPs,” Anne Marie Sequeo, a spokeswoman for Netflix, said Thursday. “There has been zero change in …

Four years ago, Sen. Al Franken was one of the few US lawmakers standing up for rules to keep the Internet open. Senator Al Franken (D-Minn.) Now he’s celebrating a victory, along with President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats who applauded the Federal Communications Commission’s new Net neutrality rules adopted last week. For years Franken — comedy writer, author and …

Now playing: Watch this: Wireless payments come to the Galaxy phones 1:15 The rivalry between Samsung and Apple appears alive and well, with Samsung firing the latest salvo by unveiling two new flagship smartphones, a mobile payments system and a new virtual-reality headset. On the eve of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Samsung on Sunday announced the much-anticipated and highly …

James Martin/CNET When it comes to the new Net neutrality rules adopted yesterday by the Federal Communications Commission, people think either that US regulators have liberated the Internet from the shackles of oppressive broadband providers or that they’ve turned the Internet, and the industry built around it, into an overregulated kludge. Well, it’s not either/or. After months of intense debate, …

It’s official. The Internet will now be regulated as a public utility. After months of anticipation and weeks of frenzied last-minute lobbying on both sides of the political aisle, the Federal Communications Commission has adopted Net neutrality regulations based on a new definition of broadband that will let the government regulate Internet infrastructure as it could the old telephone network. …

The Federal Communications Commission has fired the opening shot at state governments that restrict local municipalities from building their own broadband networks. In a 3-2 decision, which was split between Democrats favoring the measure and Republicans voting against it, the FCC approved two petitions filed by municipal broadband providers asking the agency to pre-empt, or override, provisions of laws in …

Protesters lined up outside the FCC headquarters in May in reaction to Chairman Tom Wheeler’s initial Net neutrality proposal. Getty Images Depending on whom you listen to, the Federal Communications Commission is either about to save the Internet or destroy it. The agency, led by Democrat Tom Wheeler, who was appointed as FCC chairman by President Barack Obama in 2013, …

Emotions have run high over Net neutrality. Here, protesters interrupt a meeting of the FCC commissioners in December. Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images From the Internet’s earliest days, US policy makers have been grappling with the question of if or how much the federal government should be involved in regulating the information superhighway. For more than 16 years, policy makers at the …

Republicans on the Federal Communications Commission are asking to delay the much-anticipated vote on the reinstated Net neutrality rules to give the public more time to debate the issue. The FCC commissioners (left to right): Ajit Pai, Mignon Clyburn, Tom Wheeler (chairman), Jessica Rosenworcel, and Michael O’Rielly. FCC In what appears to be a last-ditch effort to try to derail …