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Redbox Instant to shut down October 7

Redbox Instant failed to live up to expectations since its launch in 2013. Redbox Redbox Instant, the streaming-video service developed in partnership with Verizon to take on Netflix, is closing its doors on Tuesday. Customers who head to the Redbox Instant page on Monday find a “shutdown notice,” saying that Redbox Instant by Verizon will end its operation on Tuesday …

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If Congress wants new Net Neutrality rules, Congress should say so

Passions run high when it comes to proposals about the open (or less than open) Internet, as in this protest outside FCC headquarters in May 2014. Alex Wong, Getty Images On Friday, Rep. Henry Waxman, ranking member of the US House Energy and Commerce Committee, sent a 15-page letter to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler detailing a legally complicated new approach …

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