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Details thin on stimulus contracts USA TODAY By Matt Kelley WASHINGTON — Although President Obama has vowed that citizens will be able to track "every dime" of the $787 billion stimulus bill, a government website dedicated to the...
Hawaii broadband bill fails Associated Press, Forbes Feed A proposal meant to speed up Hawaii's Internet speeds has died in the state Legislature.Disagreement among lawmakers, Internet providers and regulatory agencies caused th...
Board Ties at Apple and Google Are Scrutinized New York Times By MIGUEL HELFT and BRAD STONE SAN FRANCISCO — The Federal Trade Commission has begun an inquiry into whether the close ties between the boards of two of technology’s most p...
Number Crunching Made Easy Newsweek By Christopher Werth A dwindling water supply spells disaster for the residents of Brazil's arid Northeast, who live by subsistence agriculture. Droughts have become longer and more frequent,...
E-health data collection key to tracking swine flu spread Computer World By Lucas Mearian April 29, 2009 As the prospect of a flu pandemic grew more likely Wednesday -- the World Health Organization raised its threat alert to Level 5 -- data is pouring...
Gillett will head Massachusetts Broadband Institute Boston Globe By Chris Reidy Governor Deval L. Patrick has appointed Sharon E. Gillett as the director of the Massachusetts Broadband Institute, an agency working to bridge the digital divide and deliv...
U.K. Funds Trio of Digital Research Hubs Business Week By Natasha Lomas The government has announced £36m in funding for a trio of research centres that will probe the societal benefits and pitfalls of emerging digital technologies suc...
Obama requests an extra $2 billion for NASA USA Today The Obama administration asked for an extra $2 billion for NASA missions Thursday, aiming for an $18.7 billion budget next year aimed at finishing the International Space Station, exploring ...
How the Next Kindle Could Save the Newspaper Business Wired Epicenter So now we have a Kindle in large and extra large sizes but the response to the new device among journalists, especially those with hopes of magic bullet that will save newspapers, has ...
In Strategy Shift, G.E. Plans Lower-Cost Health Products New York Times By STEVE LOHR General Electric is shifting the strategy in its $17 billion-a-year health equipment and technology business, seeking to broaden its reach with more lower-cost products.Th...
Jobless Rate Rises as Layoffs Slow Washington Post By Annys Shin and Scott Wilson The ranks of Americans looking for work continued to swell in April, as the nation's unemployment rate rose to 8.9 percent, the Labor Department reported...
Qwest Gives Gift of Wi-Fi to Broadband Customers PC World Qwest is taking advantage of a new partnership with AT&T to offer complimentary Wi-Fi services to all of its broadband Internet customers.Any Qwest customer who subscribes to Qwest High-S...
Why you should digitize 'everything' Computer World May 9, 2009 (Computerworld) Two events this week, one personal and another that is making international headlines, made me re-think what can, and should, be digitized: Everything. If yo...
Europe Fines Intel a Record $1.45 Billion in Antitrust Case New York Times By JAMES KANTER BRUSSELS — The European Commission fined Intel a record €1.06 billion on Wednesday for abusing its dominance in the computer chip market to exclude its only s...
Obama Aides Debate Role Of Proposed Cyber Czar Washington Post By Ellen Nakashima and Spencer S. Hsu The nation's top military, intelligence and homeland security officials are recommending that President Obama establish a new White House cyber cz...
Wi-Fi on the go with MiFi 2200 Intelligent Mobile Hotspot USA TODAY By Edward C. Baig Hunting down a wireless Internet connection is priority No. 1 for many travelers. But while Wi-Fi hot spots are common at airports, hotels, coffeehouses and conference cent...
FCC Hits Streets to Publicize Digital TV Switch Washington Post By Mike Musgrove With the nation's switch to digital TV broadcasting now less than 30 days away, the Federal Communications Commission is leaving nothing to chance in its efforts to re...
Alcatel-Lucent Launches Broadband Stimulus Support Program TMCnet Alcatel-Lucent (News - Alert) has launched an advisory service providing telecommunications companies, municipalities and developers assistance in applying for broadband stimulus funds as part ...
The Exploding Digital Universe Wall Street Journal “Like the physical universe, the digital universe is expanding. In fact, exploding,” says John Gantz, a researcher for IDC.For the last three years, Mr. Gantz has...
New Tool in the MD's Bag: A Smartphone Washington Post By Sindya N. BhanooTo his frustration, Steven Schwartz often encounters patients who have no idea what each of the pills they've been popping is called."But usually they can tell you w...
Stimulus dollars may boost broadband in rural areas Atlanta Journal-Constitution By Kristi E. SwartzGeorgia is one of the few states proactively lining up projects to install high-speed Internet in rural and underserved parts of the state with the help...
Silicon Valley high-flyers flex their political muscle Financial Times By David GellesSilicon Valley lore has it that in 1996, when prominent technology venture capitalist E. Floyd Kvamme tried to arrange a meeting with presidential candidate Bob D...
Plugging In $40 Computers New York Times By Saul HansellWhat would you do with a $40 Linux computer the size of a three-prong plug adapter?Marvell Technology Group is counting on an army of computer engineers and hackers to an...
Group Seeks Sway Over E-Records System Washington Post By Robert O'Harrow Jr.A health technology trade association has asked the Obama administration to require that any electronic health-record equipment receiving stimulus funding be cert...
Technology allows you to be a part of history in Obama book USA TODAY By Edward C. BaigElectronic readers, custom online photo books, print on demand ... somewhere, Gutenberg is marveling at how publishing continues to evolve.The Obama Time Capsule, which goes...
White House Rolls Out Web Site, Initiatives to Boost Transparency Washington Post By Kim HartOn his first full day in office, President Obama issued his first executive order directing federal officials to come up with ideas for making government information more vi...
More Households Cut the Cord on Cable Wall Street Journal By CHRISTOPHER LAWTONAmid tighter budgets, more people are trying to save money by cutting their cable cords. In response, cable companies are beginning to experiment with new Inte...
FCC develops strategy for rural broadband CNet Acting FCC Chairman Michael Copps released a report on broadband strategy for rural America on Wednesday.The report was mandated as part of the 2008 Farm Bill. In that bill Congress asked the Fed...
New Programs Put Crime Stats on the Map Wall Street Journal By BOBBY WHITEWhen a burglar broke into a home on the outskirts of Riverdale Park, Md., last month, some locals quickly received an email alert about the incident. Once police conf...
U.S. Inquiry Into Hiring at High-Tech Companies New York Times By MIGUEL HELFTSAN FRANCISCO — The Justice Department has begun an investigation into whether the recruiting practices of some of the largest technology companies violated antitru...
Rural Americans long to be linked USA TODAY By Leslie Cauley PLAINS, Texas — The people who live here are still waiting for the digital revolution to arrive.The local phone company, Windstream, offers high-speed DSL service in p...
FCC Pressed On Improving Broadband Access InformationWeek By W. David Gardner The Telecommunications Industry Association on Friday presented its list of recommendations to the FCC for creating a strong National Broadband Plan.Danielle Coffey...
Science labs go mobile to bring tools, inspiration to student USA TODAY By David UnzeCarl Franzblau, professor and chairman of the Department of Biochemistry at Boston University Medical School, wanted to expose more young people to science. Then, he says, he ha...
A Senate Busy Signal for F.C.C. Nominees New York Times By Saul Hansell Here’s one fact about Julius Genachowski, President Obama’s nominee to lead the Federal Communications Commission: Pretty much everyone from big phone c...
Data-Driven Schools See Rising Scores Wall Street Journal By JOHN HECHINGERBETHESDA, Md. -- Last fall, high-school senior Duane Wilson started getting D\'s on assignments in his Advanced Placement history, psychology and literature classe...
Public safety groups endorse LTE as broadband solution Fierce Wireless Three public safety organizations have endorsed LTE over the last few days as the preferred technology for a proposed national broadband network for first responders in the 700 MHz sp...
G.E. Offers $2 Billion in Loans for E-Health Record Purchases New York Times By Steve Lohr G.E. Capital has mostly been a headache for its parent company, General Electric, since the financial crisis hit last fall. But on Monday, the finance arm will be putting ...
Health Plan system tracks records, insurance claims of ER patients Detroit Free Press By Patricia Anstett The national drive to reduce health costs has come to the emergency department.Health Plan of Michigan, Michigan\'s second-largest Medicaid provider, with ...
The Nationâs C.I.O.: Government Needs a Dashboard New York Times By Saul Hansell It is sadly too easy to find examples of federal technology projects gone awry. To Vivek Kundra, the nation’s new chief information officer, one seems to stick in ...
Broadband Important for Rural Areas, Groups Say PC World Without broadband, Becky Collins would be out of business.Collins, owner of Granny B\'s Clothesline, said she was able to leave her job filing out Medicare forms and start her own children\'s...
Survey: The old and poor sign up for broadband Boston Globe By Peter Svensson, AP Technology Writer NEW YORK --Some groups that have lagged in signing up for high-speed Internet service, like the elderly, the poor and rural residents, have started...
FCC Chief Nominee To Promote Wireless, Broadband InformationWeek After five months without a permanent FCC chairman, the U.S. Senate appears poised to approve Julius Genachowski for the post. At a hearing Tuesday, senators lavished praise on Genacho...
Broadband speed creep TelephonyAT&T and Verizon both are nudging up broadband speeds in conjunction with a range of promotions apparently aimed at giving a last-minute push to their second-quarter numbers while also ch...
Internet Stimulus Grant Givers Want Community Coalitions Wall Street Journal By Fawn Johnson WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--The U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Commerce are on the verge of publishing guidelines for $7.2 billion in economic stimulus grants for ...
Young job hunters seek work through Twitter Financial TimesBy Katrina Bishop One thing links the jobs of an MOT tester in Norwich, a librarian in Glasgow and a kitchen porter in Portsmouth: the listings for these positions are all less than 140...
Microsoft Unveils Energy-Use Software Wall Street Journal By CASSANDRA SWEET Microsoft Corp. said it plans to launch new Internet software to help consumers gauge how much electricity they use and figure out how to cut back.The Redmond, W...
How to Cross the Digital Divide, Rwanda-Style Washington Post By Sarah LacyWhenever I tell someone the countries I’m hitting for my new book, they start out nodding, then the nodding slows, then they just get confused. China, India, Brazil,...
California More Connected, But Digital Divide Persists KCBS SAN JOSE (KCBS) -- Although the number of Californians with home computers and broadband Internet continues to grow, few Latino families have high speed Web access at home.A survey by the Public ...
Senate Confirms New Chairman to Lead F.C.C. New York Times By BLOOMBERG NEWS The Senate approved a former technology executive, Julius Genachowski, on Thursday as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.Senators also approved Robert M...
Nearly Half Of Americans Would Give Up Mobile Data To Make Ends Meet Information Week by Eric Zeman According to a new report compiled by Strategy Analytics, 48% of Americans would dump their mobile data plan to save money. The poll also revealed that only 10% would co...
Personal Democracy Forum: Battle over Broadband Wall Street Journal By Marisa Taylor The Obama administration has called for a $7.1 billion upgrade of the nation’s broadband Internet system as part of the Recovery Act, but it will be a tall o...
NY mayor: Info to the people will improve government CNet by Caroline McCarthy NEW YORK--The state senate in Albany was in a bit of a shambles Monday. So instead of speaking in-person at the Personal Democracy Forum as planned, NY Mayor Michael Bl...
Government Launches Web Site to Track IT Spending Washington Post By Kim Hart NEW YORK, June 30 -- Vivek Kundra, the federal chief information officer, on Tuesday announced a new Web site designed to track more than $70 billion in government informat...
Defining Broadband Light Reading By Phil Harvey, Editor-in-Chief The Notice of Funds Availability (NOFA) for the broadband portion of the Recovery Act was released today. In that 121-page document, the Rural Utilities S...
Broadband To Reach 640 Million Households By 2013 InformationWeek By W. David GardnerWhile the Asia-Pacific region will account for nearly half the global broadband market share, the U.S. will also see a boost from the Obama Administration\'s stimulu...
Akamai Announces First Quarter 2009 State of the Internet Report Business Wire CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM):
Akamai observed a nearly five percent increase (from the fourth quarter 2008) globally in the number of u...
Birmingham to host workshop on applying for federal broadband funds Birmingham Business Journal Birmingham will host one of 10 national workshops to help business owners apply for federal stimulus funds aimed at expanding broadband access.The public broadband grant an...
UnitedHealth, Cisco partner on telehealth tech Denver Business Journal UnitedHealth Group Inc., a health insurance giant that operates in Colorado, is making another major foray into health information technology.UnitedHealth plans to spend tens o...
As Technology Needs Grow, One Sector Has No Shortage of Jobs Washington PostBy Kim HartPlatinum Solutions, a Reston information technology firm that serves the government, needs to find new employees so fast that it hired four full-time recruiters. At any given...
FCC chairman has broad approach to Net access Los Angeles Times By Jim PuzzangheraMaking high-speed Internet available throughout the U.S. is a top priority of Julius Genachowski.Reporting from Washington — Expanding high-speed Internet acc...
Mideast, Africa Mobile Broadband To Explode: Report Wired Epicenter JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Mobile broadband in the Middle East and Africa will expand to $6 billion in the next two years from the current $1 billion, spurred by an expanding network and...
Smart grid technology makes sense for consumers Baltimore Sun By Kenneth W. DeFontesLast summer, Shirley Norlem of Annapolis joined 1,000 other Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. customers in testing new \"smart grid\" technology that promises to trans...
Chicago works to close digital divide ABC7Chicago July 21, 2009 (CHICAGO) (WLS) -- Chicago is working to close the digital divide between rich and poor neighborhoods.A new study by University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of I...
Online -- and in the Loop -- With D.C. Police Washington Post By Theola Labbé-DeBoseKent Boese was watching television in his Northwest Washington home when he heard a series of popping sounds. So he did what has become natural to thousand...
Mobile Internet Use Shrinks Digital Divide New York Times By Jenna Wortham Quick: Picture an Internet aficionado, circa 1995.The first image that comes to my mind is Dennis Nedry, the embryo thief in “Jurassic Park,” who met his un...
Pursuing an Academic Edge at Home Wall Street Journal By JOSEPH DE AVILA Kimberly Kauer was worried about her 6-year-old daughter’s math skills. Her school doesn’t assign homework, and Ms. Kauer wasn’t sure which mat...
The Importance of Broadband Hispanic Business By Doug Adams--Knight Center of Digital ExcellenceWhile President Barack Obama and Congress have made clear how important broadband is to our nation by putting $7.2 billion in stimul...
Pew: minorities embrace internet via handheld devices Ars Technica By Matthew LasarThe Pew Internet Life Project says that more and more African Americans and Hispanics get their Internet from hand held devices, a trend that evens the digital divide.A ne...
Intel CEO Otellini Calls for a Personal Health Strategy eWeek By: Jeffrey BurtIn an op-ed piece, Intel CEO Paul Otellini said the United States needs to move away from a centralized health care system to a distributed one, where people take a greater respo...
FCC chair touts broadband as top priority San Jose Mercury News By Troy Wolverton The Federal Communications Commission\'s top \"strategic\" priority will be to encourage greater availability and adoption of broadband Internet access, the ag...
Take Two Digital Pills and Call Me in the Morning Wall Street Journal By DON CLARK Silicon Valley Has a High-Tech Prescription to Cure Health Care\'s Swollen Costs and Inefficiencies, but the Prognosis Is UncertainHospitals are costly places. Andrew ...
Internet speeds vary across USA, leaving a digital divide USA TODAY By Leslie Cauley The average Internet download speed in the USA is 5.1 megabits per second, though consumers online experiences can vary dramatically, depending on where they happen to live,...
What Is Broadband? FCC Wants To Know InformationWeek By W. David Gardner The federal agency wants to develop accurate and uniform definitions for broadband to help in its development of a national broadband plan.The FCC has launched a ca...
Md. Jurisdictions Seek Funds for Broadband Boost Washington Post By V. Dion Haynes $100 Million Requested From Stimulus Pool Montgomery, Prince George\'s and Howard counties and eight other Maryland jurisdictions are seeking $100 million in federal ...
Flu outbreak could hit poor schools hardest Washington Times By Kristi Jourdan If the flu outbreak this fall is as widespread as some experts fear, students who stay home should use Web conferencing and podcasting technologies to try to stay cu...
Digital divide: Internet-access speed varies across Illinois Chicago Sun-Times BY SANDRA GUY The new digital divide is Internet-access speed: The high-speeds vs. the slow-pokes, a survey out today shows.\"Downstate Illinois is slow, while pockets in the Chicago...
New nonprofit aims to be the YouTube for global giving San Jose Mercury News By JENNIFER PITTMAN SANTA CRUZ -- A new Internet-based nonprofit that offers video portals into some of the world\'s poorest communities aims to make educated philanthropy as eas...
Feds get $28B in requests for $7.2B to extend broadband USA TODAY By Leslie Cauley The federal government has received more than 2,200 applications asking for $28 billion in stimulus funding for new broadband projects across the USA.The avalanche of applic...
Broaden access for broadband Boston Globe MUCH AS the federal government assisted in rural electrification decades ago, lighting the way to progress, now the government must help bring broadband Internet service to Western Massac...
Open Government Agenda Spills into States and Localities Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Blog From New York to California, the White House Open Government Initiative is pleased to see states and cities increasing transparency and civic engage...
Electronic Medical Record Mandates to Increase Jobs in IT eWeek By: Don E. Sears With a $20 billion infusion from the Health Information Technology Act, the EMR market is expected to grow in major ways. Expect jobs to expand in systems integration, programmi...
Flu Trackers Encourage Patients to Blog About It Washington Post By Michael E. Ruane Think you have the flu? In some places, you can now go directly to the Internet and report your symptoms to officials eager to spot outbreaks.Say you feel sick, but...
Should you friend your doctor on Facebook? CNN By Elizabeth Cohen (CNN) -- When Walter Jordan played for the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 1980s, he had top-notch medical care. Whenever he was hurt, a team physician materialized immediately...
Intel and Qualcomm Eye Each Otherâs Terrain New York Times By BROOKE CROTHERSSAN DIEGO — The inside of computers has been Intel’s territory, as the world’s biggest maker of microprocessors reminds consumers with its “Int...
Federal Agencies Plan To Hire Thousands Of IT Pros InformationWeek By J. Nicholas Hoover A new survey shows that hiring by major federal agencies will rise a modest 1.7% each of the next few years, though that doesn\'t reflect job demand in intelligen...
Howard, Va. Tech Join U.S. Intelligence Program Washington Post By Walter Pincus Howard University and Virginia Tech have joined forces in a $2.5 million academic program funded by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence designed to tea...
Software Helps Surgeons Track Costs, Care InformationWeek By Marianne Kolbasuk McGee Applications from Surgical Information Systems are helping a Milwaukee medical center improve operating room processes and billing.Surgical departments often...
Digital Health Records: The Hard Road Ahead New York Times By Steve Lohr Encouraged by the billions of dollars in government funding, technology companies are making a big push to help bring computerized health records into small-office physici...
Microsoft sets up open-source foundation CNetby Chris Duckett Microsoft has created the nonprofit CodePlex Foundation to target increased communication between open-source communities and software companies.Citing an under-representation of ...
Dell to Help Hospitals Adopt Electronic Medical Records eWeek By: Jeffrey Burt Dell is rolling out a package of hardware, software and services designed to make it easier and less costly for hospitals and their affiliated physicians adopt electronic medica...
A Virtual Revolution Is Brewing for Colleges Washington Post By Zephyr Teachout Students starting school this year may be part of the last generation for which \"going to college\" means packing up, getting a dorm room and listening to tenured p...
$100M-plus broadband map runs into cost questions USA Today By Peter Svensson And Joelle TesslerWASHINGTON — The national stimulus package passed by Congress in February may have been too enthusiastic about spending money on one particular proj...
Push would spread broadband across America The Dallas Morning News By VICTOR GODINEZ Still can\'t get high-speed Internet at your home? Uncle Sam is on the case. In the sprawling $787 billion stimulus program passed by Congress earlier this ye...
Lifeline/Link-Up Programs Keep People Connected Office of Science and Technology Policy Blog by Scott Deutchman If you are reading this blog, then getting to your favorite website is probably not that hard for you. Imagine how disconnected yo...
Study: US Retains IT Edge, but Broadband Needs Work PCWorld By Mikael Ricknäs The U.S. still ranks first in the IT competitiveness, but the lack of a broadband infrastructure could threaten its lead, according to a study.The U.S. still ranks first...
Obama Promotes National Innovation Strategy InformationWeek By John FoleyThe president unveils a three-pronged plan to spur technology and business innovation in the United States.President Obama on Monday outlined a strategy for spurring techn...
Microsoft takes notice as more people use free Google Docs USA TODAY By Byron Acohido Some big companies are starting to move their spreadsheets, word-processing and other productivity programs off of PCs and on to the Web.About 20% of respondents to a ...
Internet Providers Push Back Against Net Neutrality Proposal Wall Street Journal By AMY SCHATZ and FAWN JOHNSON WASHINGTON -- Phone and cable companies expressed concern about proposed rules that would prohibit Internet service providers from slowing competitor...
FCC Still Looking for Broadband Ideas PC World The US FCC is still looking for ideas on how to provide universal broadband. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is still looking for ideas on how to bring broadband to all corners of ...
New Technology Used For Streamlining Data Washington Post By Philip Rucker Government Transparency Is a Top Goal The administration began a Web program Tuesday that eliminates red tape in the immigration process by allowing applicants to foll...
Online High Schools Test Students Social Skills Wall Street Journal By PAUL GLADER As Digital Learning Programs Grow, Educators Hope to Prevent Teens From Feeling Isolated; Student Government Via the WebPALO ALTO, Calif. -- Tatyana Ray has more tha...
Rural, urban areas of Ohio seek broadband cash Associated Press By JULIE CARR SMYTH COLUMBUS, Ohio — State broadband planners say Ohio\'s unique mix of rural, Appalachian and poor urban communities gives it a strong chance of securing federa...
The FCCs Heavy Hand Washington Post Federal regulators should not be telling Internet service providers how to run their businesses.IN A SPEECH at the Brookings Institution last week, Federal Communications Commission Ch...
How Much Broadband Do We Need? GigaOM After reading a report out today from the National Broadband Coalition, I found myself thinking about conversations in recent weeks with guys from Cisco and my colleagues about how far the U.S....
FCC To Examine Wireless Broadband Demands Washington Post By Cecilia KangAll those new iPhones and Blackberries are great for AT&T, Verizon, Sprint Nextel and other carriers for now. But if the pace of growth in smart phones keeps up, the...
Google Docs rolls out student-oriented features CNet by Harrison Hoffman Google Docs\' summer interns this summer were tasked with working on improvements and additions to the service geared toward students.The results of their work, now available ...
Broadband Speeds Surge in Many Countries New York Times By ERIC PFANNER PARIS — The performance of broadband Internet connections has surged ahead in many countries in the last year, even before government stimulus packages aimed at up...
Push starts for national e-health records MSNBC By The Associated Press Biggest hurdle is allowing e-records to be swapped among systems KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Doctor\'s offices and hospitals have slowly started the difficult switch from outmoded...
Full Web Access Is Pegged at $20 Billion Wall Street Journal By AMY SCHATZ WASHINGTON -- Bringing basic broadband Internet service to the three million to six million American households without access could cost as much as $20 billion, the ...
Jobless Report Is Worse Than Expected; Rate Rises to 9.8% New York Times By JACK HEALY The American economy lost 263,000 jobs in September — far more than expected — and the unemployment rate rose to 9.8 percent, the government reported on Friday...
A New Web Tool to Take Control of Your Health New York Times By STEVE LOHRThe national health care debate right now is all about giving more people affordable access to doctors and hospitals. Yet the vast majority of health care decisions —...
AT&T; Reverses Course on Internet Phone Apps Wall Street Journal By AMY SCHATZ WASHINGTON – AT&T Inc. reversed course Tuesday and said that it will allow Internet phone software applications on the iPhone to run on its 3G network.AT&am...;
FCC member touts broadband The Post and Courier By Robert Behre Ex-Charleston publisher wants more people to have high-speed InternetMignon Clyburn, a former Charleston newspaper publisher, returned this week to talk about the ...
AT&T; Reverses Policy on iPhone Internet Calls New York Times By SAUL HANSELL AT&T said on Tuesday that it would no longer prevent customers with the Apple iPhone from using Internet telephone services that bypass its own voice network.Until n...
Stewart County leaders take steps to close the digital divide Clarksville Leaf Chronicle After months of work, Stewart County leaders have devised a technology plan designed to improve the county’s economy and quality of life.The Connected Stewart County S...
Broadband Isnât Just the Web â Itâs Our Future GigaOM By Stacey HigginbothamWhen Ed Whitacre, CEO of AT&T retired in 2007, a telecom lobbyist commented to me that Whitacre was one of the last die-hard believers in providing telephone service t...
FCC To Examine Prices Phone Cos Pay For Network Connections Wall Street Journal By Fawn Johnson WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski has pledged to open an inquiry into the prices telecom firms charge others for...
Renewed computers, renewed lives Illinois Times By Rick WadeComputer Banc works to close the digital divideIt’s yet another Saturday work day at Springfield’s Computer Banc, where digital wizards infuse computers with new...
Intel and Qualcomm Eye Each Otherâs Terrain New York Times By BROOKE CROTHERS SAN DIEGO — The inside of computers has been Intel’s territory, as the world’s biggest maker of microprocessors reminds consumers with its “In...
Unbanked but No Longer Ignored Washington Post By Ylan Q. Mui
Regulators, Firms Take Aim At Payday-Lending Market
For years, the country\'s makeshift network of payday lenders and check cashers has operated with little competiti...
Tough choices for feds giving out broadband money USA Today By Joelle TesslerWASHINGTON — The federal government will soon start handing out the first $4 billion from a pot of stimulus funds intended to spread high-speed Internet connections to...
Challenges mount as broadband grows Network WorldBy Michael CooneyBroadband pricing, service speeds and service reliability growing concernsIf it is true that as Gartner says the US will add over 27 million new broadband customers in th...
City to feed jobless tech training with meter money Chicago Sun Times BY FRAN SPIELMAN 10,500 to benefit from $20 million Chicago will spend $20 million in proceeds from the parking meter lease to create its very own \"Tech Corps\" -- by offering techn...
Harvard broadband report up for review The Hill Three months ago, the FCC asked Harvard University\'s Berkman Center for Internet and Society to conduct a comprehensive review of the existing literature and data about broadband deployment ...
Finding a Guide for Online Networking New York Times By ELIZABETH POPETHE last time Mac McCabe looked for consulting work with sustainable businesses, it was a different world. “Back in the early ’90s, the socially responsible...
Finland makes 1Mb broadband access a legal right CNet by Don ReisingerFinland\'s Ministry of Transport and Communications has made 1-megabit broadband Web access a legal right, YLE, the country\'s national broadcasting company, reported on Wednesday...
Web health sites harness power of social networks Washington Post By V Dion HaynesPatients learn from patients \'A significant advance in what sites are doing\'In fall 2007, during her 12th week of pregnancy, Garance Genicot and her husband, Shub Deb...
Net Neutrality Critics, Advocates Gear Up for FCC Rumble on Thursday BroadbandCensus As the Federal Communications Commission prepares to tackle the issue of Network neutrality at its October 22 meeting, major telecommunications carriers have all been sending letters t...
Marketers salivating over smartphone potential USA TODAY By Jon SwartzSAN FRANCISCO — Jeff Smith is a diligent social-networking user, but he doesn\'t own a PC.\"I prefer a cellphone and a service for a cellphone,\" says Smith, 40, a postal ...
FCC Adopts Open Net Rules Wall Street Journal By FAWN JOHNSONWASHINGTON—The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday approved a much-anticipated open Internet proposal despite concerns of commission Republicans and ...
National broadband policy must push adoption TelephonyOnline By Carol WilsonMore than one-third of Americans who could get broadband choose not to, and the FCC is trying to determine whyThe U.S. National Broadband Policy needs to solve the count...
Broadband Now! So Why Donât Some Use It? New York Times By RANDALL STROSSACCESS to a fast Internet connection has become more than a convenience. It’s being enshrined in some countries as a legal right of all citizens. Finland, for exa...
Stimulus cash sought to broaden Net access Chicago Sun-Times BY SANDRA GUY Chicago is seeking federal stimulus money to expand high-speed Internet access to five needy neighborhoods -- a plan that could add 300 jobs to existing community cente...
A Chat with FCC Chief Genachowski Business Week By Tom Lowry FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski on broadband access, net neutrality, a spectrum gap, innovation, competition, and consumer empowermentA day after the Federal Communications ...
Report cards go digital Houston Chronicle By JENNIFER RADCLIFFE The buzz of his cell phone alerts Fabian Arcizo of trouble on the homefront: One of his son\'s class averages has dropped below an 80.Just this month, the Houst...
Internet set for change with non-English addresses USAToday By Kelly Olsen SEOUL — The Internet is set to undergo one of the biggest changes in its four-decade history with the expected approval this week of international domain names — or...
Advances in telemedicine accelerate SpeedMatters.org There\'s a revolution going on in healthcare - and I\'m not talking about the news coming from Washington.With the help of high-resolution video and fast broadband connections, advanc...
$10 Billion could provide fiber to all all US Schools, hospitals SpeedMatters.org The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation estimates that an investment of $10 billion could run fiber to nearly every community across the country.The ambitious expansion of broadband inf...
Will the Digital Divide Close by Itself? New York Times By Stefanie OlsenOn the subject of tech and education, academics and executives are worried about many divides.There’s the growing divide between kids who have access to technolog...
Connected Nation: Libraries key to rural broadband access TheHill By Kim Hart Connected Nation is trying to show the importance of anchor institutions to broadband expansion in rural areas. The organization, which has partnered with many states in for signif...
Will the Internet Survive Its 40th? Wall Street Journal The net neutrality battle pits broadband builders against content providers.The Internet recently celebrated the 40th anniversary of its founding, just in time to be welcomed in Wa...
Virtual schools chart new course The Atlanta Journal-Constitution By D. Aileen Dodd Representatives of five would-be virtual charter schools will file into the administrative towers of the Georgia Department of Education today to pit...
FCC Approves AT&T; Acquisition of Centennial, With Conditions Wall Street Journal By Kristina Peterson WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--The Federal Communications Commission this week conditionally approved AT&T Inc.\'s (T) $944 million acquisition of Centennial Comm...
Does Technology Reduce Social Isolation? New York Times By Stefanie OlsenHundreds of daily updates come from friends on Facebook and Twitter, but do people actually feel closer to each other?It turns out the size of the average America...
The Underestimated Mignon Clyburn Washington Post Before Mignon Clyburn joined the Federal Communications Commission last July, she hadn’t spent more than two weeks in a row outside of her native South Carolina. But that didn\'t...
A laptop for every student: Asheville High makes technology push Asheville Citizen-Times By Ashley WilsonThe day when every Asheville High School student has a laptop computer is getting closer.The Asheville City School System received a $3.2 million federal grant ...
Watch the Walk and Prevent a Fall New York Times By STEVE LOHR FALLS are so harmful to the elderly and so costly to society that if falling were a disease, it would be deemed an epidemic.More than one-third of people ages 65 or older ...
Google, Verizon Deepen Ties Wall Street Journal By NIRAJ SHETH And JESSICA E. VASCELLAROCEOs Develop Friendship as They Look to Challenge Apple\'s iPhoneWhen Verizon Wireless and Google Inc. set out to challenge the iPhone, they...
Smartgrids, telemedicine could drive broadband adoption TheHill By Kim HartThe advent of sensors that let systems talk to each other via the Internet--think smart-grid technologies, telemedicine programs, homeland security surveillance--will begin to fuel ...
Streamlined Broadband Grant Process Promised Wall Street Journal By AMY SCHATZ WASHINGTON—The Obama administration said Tuesday it will streamline the application process for $7.2 billion in broadband stimulus grants in response to critici...
Google Gives Wi-Fi Away Free at 47 U.S. Airports for Holidays PC World By Ian PaulGoogle gives the gift of free Wi-Fi to millions of holiday travelers in 47 U.S. airports.Call it an early holiday gift from Google to millions of airline passengers. Google said wi...
FCC Releases Top Five Barriers To Broadband Broadcasting & Cable By John Eggerton Affordability, insufficient digital and tech awareness levels part of problem According to a request for comment issued Wednesday, the FCC has tentatively con...
Companies lobby newest FCC members on net neutrality rule The Hill By Kevin Bogardus and Kim Hart Lobbyists and corporate executives are targeting the newest members of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the high-stakes fight over regulating the ...
The Greatest Generation (of Networkers) The Wall Street Journal By JEFFREY ZASLOW A 17-year-old boy, caught sending text messages in class, was recently sent to the vice principal\'s office at Millwood High School in Halifax, Nova Scotia.Th...
FCC Mulls Broadband Network for Public Safety InternetNews.com By Kenneth CorbinWASHINGTON -- So much of the government\'s recent attention to broadband networks has focused on the networks used by consumers, but in the backdrop of that heavily-l...
Council agrees to fund broadband study up to $5,000 South Carolina Now By Jim Faile Hartsville City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to fund up to $5,000 for a feasibility study into the possibility of creating a city-owned fiber optic network that wo...
Broadband Growth Will Come From New Tech, Not New Adds GigaOM Broadband growth in the U.S. has slowed considerably in the last two years and future growth for online access technologies will come less from people adopting broadband for the first time and ...
Bigger U.S. Role in Broadband Is Likely Wall Street Journal By AMY SCHATZ WASHINGTON -- The Federal Communications Commission began to lay the groundwork for a bigger federal role in the broadband business Wednesday, outlining the hurdles t...
A Push for Science and Technology Learning New York Times
By JEFF ZELENY
President Obama devotes a fair amount of time to sports. He plays golf most weekends. He filled out his N.C.A.A. championship bracket for all ESPN viewers to see. And h...
Broadband Internet Access in Schools Shouldnât be a Luxury Black Web 2.0By Navarrow Wright Imagine the outrage from parents, teachers, and the community if a school announced that some of its students would have access to textbooks, research papers, and liter...
FCC Chair Wants More Broadband InformationWeek By W. David Gardner A 10% increase in broadband availability means a 1.2 to 1.5 point increase in GDP, Federal Communications Commission Chair Julius Genachowski says.Making broa...
Broadband stimulus grants delayed Network World Gov\'t cites unexpectedly high number of applications as chief reason One of the government agencies in charge of doling out broadband stimulus cash has pushed back the dates for when it...
Comments on net neutrality irk AT&T; Washington Post By Cecilia Kang AT&T doesn\'t like the idea of new regulations mandating unfettered access to the Internet, and recent comments from the Obama administration that connected the iss...
Joint Center Applauds New Report on Expanding Broadband Adoption BroadbandCensus.com The U.S. Broadband Coalition’s report on increasing broadband adoption and use got a boost on Wednesday as its working group racked up an endorsement from the Joint Center fo...
Bringing the Internet to every home in America Hudson Valley Press By Danny Bakewell, Sr. NNPA ChairmanThis summer, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski described universalbroadband Internet access as this generation&rsquo...;
Why New Media Looks A Whole Lot Like Old Media Huffington Post This week, the Federal Trade Commission will be convening a high-level hearing in D.C. looking at \"How Will Journalism Survive The Internet Age.\"Media giants like Rupert Murdoch and ...
Feds Providing $80 Million For Health IT Training InformationWeek By Marianne Kolbasuk McGee The government funding helps set up 6-month health IT workforce training programs at community colleges nationwide.With the U.S. Labor Department predicting ...
Colo. receiving $2.1 million for broadband mapping The Associated Press DENVER — Colorado is receiving about $2.1 million in stimulus money over the next few years for work that could help expand high-speed Internet access in the state.The Natio...
Mo. wins grant to map broadband Internet coverage The Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri has won a $1.9 million federal grant to help expand high-speed Internet service in rural areas.The funds will be used to map existing broadban...