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welcome top 5 i'm your host i as akhtar we're pretty much halfway done with this year really so let's take a look at the five biggest tech stories so far at number 5 consolidation is the game I'm lumping together this trend as one story verizon is trying to buy an AOL for 4.4 billion dollars 18t is trying to acquire directv 4 48.5 billion dollars then there's that report that t-mobile and dish might get together Comcast tried to buy Time Warner Cable but that fell apart for charters showed up and try to gobble up time warner cable and bright house networks these are the folks who control the communication lines in the US so keep an eye out on what feels actually go through and which one is done at number 4 the u.s. embracing net neutrality this year the United States rule to regulate the Internet as utility and then issue new rules to join Chilean other countries to preserve netra chirality what does that mean as cnet's own Maggie Riordan boiled it down the new rules make sure no broadband provider can block lawful content nor can it throttle specific applications or services third a broadband provider can't be paid to prioritize content no fast lanes on the internet in other words the internet should continue to work the way it already does bits or bits and are all treated the same at number three is the Apple watch release in April Apple released the Apple watch at a starting price around three hundred fifty dollars SmartWatch was kind of a hard sell if the device that has limited functionality away from a paired iPhone Apple hasn't released any official sales numbers but analyst at kononenko estimated that total Apple watch pre-orders worldwide reached about 1 million units during the first weekend of availability at number two the free windows 10 upgrade why is this a big story Microsoft Windows 10 is an aggressive move to get people to upgrade from windows 7 machines and above the company has been a victim of its own success at times because some people refuse to upgrade why switch from windows 7 to use the semi alien Windows 8 Windows 10 takes care of a lot of complaints people had about windows 8 and at a price of free for the first year we might actually see a big wave of adoption to Windows 10 what's released on july twenty ninth and the biggest tech news story of the year so far is television over the Internet becoming a reality 2015 was the year when people looking to ditch the traditional cable or satellite packages got some options first up with sling TV from dish network that brought a bundle of networks of people over the Internet at a base price of twenty dollars in March we got PlayStation view Sony's fifty dollar per month television of the Internet offering HBO finally got in the game offering up an online version of at a channel that required no cable subscription the television industry doesn't like change but the fact that all of this happened is huge who knows what'll happen in the future maybe Google by Tesla or Apple will purchase you yeah you okay that's probably unlikely anyway for more top five like this visit top 5 cnet com I'm I as thanks for watching