President Barack Obama is making good on his promise to bring more broadband to Americans. President Barack Obama makes remarks supporting municipal broadband deployments in January in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Official White House Photo by Pete Souza On Monday he signed a memorandum formally creating the Broadband Opportunity Council, a federal initiative aimed at increasing …

You apparently will be able to hide certain preloaded apps from Samsung’s new Galaxy S phones. Josh Miller/CNET Buy a Samsung Galaxy S6 or S6 Edge, and you apparently won’t be stuck looking at all the apps that come with it. Screenshots of the upcoming Galaxy S6 Edge smartphone posted late last week on the XDA Developers forum show that …

Make one of these before you actually have a need for it. Rick Broida/CNET Back in the old days, computers that came with Windows also came with Windows media: floppy disks, then later CDs and eventually a DVD. If you needed to reinstall the OS for any reason, you just used that media. Those days are over. Think about the …

Google Glass won’t die, despite some claims to the contrary. Sarah Tew/CNET The Google Glass smart eyewear might no longer be available, but it will be making a triumphant return, according to the search giant’s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt. Glass is “a big and very fundamental platform for Google,” Schmidt told the Wall Street Journal in an interview published Monday. …

Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET If your workday has you spending large amounts of time working and collaborating online, then Chrome extension Todoed can help you stay on task. Or, more accurately stated, create tasks. With Todoed, you can turn snippets from a productive chat with a coworker — and nearly any text you encounter in Chrome — into to-do list …

YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET The NFL is planning to give the ball to the Internet next season. The National Football League intends to sell the national digital distribution rights of a regular season game this year to an Internet company, an NFL representative confirmed Monday. The move represents the first time that pro football fans will have to look …

First announced in December last year, mobile virtual network operator Amaysim has turned on its 4G offering. Last year saw Amaysim expand the terms of its wholesale agreement with Optus, adding access to the full Optus 4G Plus network. New pricing structures have also been put in place for both new customers and existing customers wishing to upgrade to the …

HBO Foxtel Play, the IPTV service offered by Foxtel, is dropping the price on its Premium Movies and Drama pick for new subscribers who sign up between March 23 and April 30, with the add-on package costing AU$5 instead of AU$20. The Premium Movies and Drama pack is home a number of popular series including “Veep,” “The Americans,” “Black Sails” …

Now playing: Watch this: Enable ‘God Mode’ for better Netflix browsing 1:13 Netflix users, are you tired of scrolling left and right on your PC to find a movie or TV show you want to watch? A new bookmarklet for your browser puts an end to all that scrolling. Created by a developer named Renan Cakirerk, the bookmarklet turns on …

Swapping in imaginative modules makes Ara your own. Lynn La/CNET Imagine your phone as the ultimate Swiss Army knife, the perfect all-in-one toolkit. What would you want on yours: A mini screwdriver, a fingerprint scanner, a bottle opener? With Project Ara phones, the attachment possibilities are boundless. Related links Project Ara: Everything we know about Google’s modular phone Yezz Project …