AT&T kills the 'permacookie,' stops tracking customers' Internet usage (for now)

The mobile carrier says it was testing the tracking technology, but it didn't rule out reintroducing permacookies in the future

In recent weeks, Verizon and AT&T have been caught up in a privacy firestorm over their use of so-called "permacookies," a method of tracking what their users do while browsing the Web with the intent of sharing that data with advertisers. Verizon's permacookie program lives on, but AT&T has ceased the practice, ProPublica reported on Friday.

Can Amazon Web Services be stopped?

A deafening buzz at Amazon's AWS re:Invent show and eye-popping AWS adoption numbers signal gathering momentum

Splunk CEO Godfrey Sullivan said it in the fewest words: “Cloud is the new data center, and AWS is the best data center.”

Sullivan was part of a chorus of corporate chieftains and tech leaders singing praises to the No. 1 cloud at AWS re:Invent, which drew an estimated 13,500 attendees to Las Vegas last week. Enterprises from Johnson & Johnson to Major League Baseball to the AWS poster child, Netflix, touted their production cloud deployments. Dozens of startups, many native to AWS, explained how they’re cleverly leveraging Amazon infrastructure and services.