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Scooped by Chuck Sherwood, Former Senior Associate, TeleDimensions, Inc
October 21, 2011 1:46 PM
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Utah County Association of Realtors Planning Anti-UTOPIA Meeting in Orem

Utah County Association of Realtors Planning Anti-UTOPIA Meeting in Orem | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it

It appears that astroturfing isn’t just for the Utah Taxpayers Association anymore. The Utah County Association of Realtors, a very powerful lobbying group, has been organizing a “public forum” entitled “What does UTOPIA mean...

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October 21, 2011 1:40 PM
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Maryland Broadband Cooperative launches statewide middle mile network

The Maryland Broadband Cooperative (MDBC), one of the emerging middle mile network providers extending services to underserved communities in Maryland, is moving forward with plans to build out a 1,300-mile statewide optical open access network.
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October 21, 2011 1:39 PM
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28% of Minnesotans lack broadband at home

28% of Minnesotans lack broadband at home | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it
Yesterday Connect Minnesota released the latest report from their summer survey of residents.
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October 21, 2011 1:36 PM
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DPI: Driven by mobile and heading for chaos?

Mobile operators are set to drive the growth of controversial technique, deep packet inspection (DPI) producing a compound annual growth rate of 47 percent for the next four years, to 2015.
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October 21, 2011 1:33 PM
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Microsoft, posting revenue gains, eyes number three smartphone position

Microsoft, leaning on enterprise successes, is counting on Skype and Xbox, as well as deals with Samsung and Nokia, to help it become the number-three smartphone platform.
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October 21, 2011 1:22 PM
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U.S. Senior Citizen - The Importance of Citizen Engagement ...

U.S. Senior Citizen - The Importance of Citizen Engagement  ... | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it

Although trust in Government in Canada is on the rise (Edelman Trust Barometer 2010) declining trust in government and political process over the past decade, as well as declining civic participation, indicates that government must clearly and authentically demonstrate a commitment to involving citizens in meaningful public discourse – beyond traditional approaches to informing and consulting and toward a new approach to engaging all citizen and technical stakeholder perspectives to contribute in meaningful ways to public policy decisions. We have recently witnessed the transition from the shareholder world to the stakeholder world where business and governments have lost the ability to operate unilaterally.

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October 21, 2011 1:18 PM
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Mitsubishi Conducts Full-Scale Smart Grid Testing in Japan; Aims for Sales of ... - Appliance Magazine

Mitsubishi Conducts Full-Scale Smart Grid Testing in Japan; Aims for Sales of ... - Appliance Magazine | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it
Smart Grid NewsMitsubishi Conducts Full-Scale Smart Grid Testing in Japan; Aims for Sales of ...Appliance MagazineMitsubishi Electric Corp.
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October 21, 2011 1:15 PM
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Kansas City Board of Public Utilities Adds eMeter, IBM, Siemens to Their Smart ... - PR Newswire (press release)

Kansas City Board of Public Utilities Adds eMeter, IBM, Siemens to Their Smart ... - PR Newswire (press release) | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it
Kansas City Board of Public Utilities Adds eMeter, IBM, Siemens to Their Smart ...PR Newswire (press release)KCBPU has also contracted with Siemens for the implementation of eMeter Energy Engage™, eMeter's customer web portal, to display consumer...
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October 21, 2011 1:00 PM
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Fixing rural call completion problem won't be easy

The FCC’s rural call completion workshop on Tuesday did a good job of outlining the rural call completion problem, but offered few hints about what steps the commission might be thinking of taking to address the problem.

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October 21, 2011 12:45 PM
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Universal Service Fund mini update « Blandin on Broadband

Universal Service Fund mini update « Blandin on Broadband | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it

On October 6, FCC Chair Julius Genachowski outlined the proposed changes in a speech – Connecting America: A Plan To Reform and Modernize the Universal: Service Fund and Intercarrier Compensation System.

 

While I think the $7.2 billion in ARRA stimulus funding captured more attention and the imagination of the public – decisions made about the USF/ICC will have a greater long-term financial impact on broadband – especially in rural areas with less densely populated areas.

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October 21, 2011 12:41 PM
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AT&T doesn’t take Q3 off to wait for the iPhone

Sans new Apple and LTE smartphones, AT&T still pulls off an impressive quarter with the help of Android and older iPhone models...
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October 21, 2011 12:40 PM
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Nobody Trusts Big Cable and Phone Companies, New Research Finds

Nobody Trusts Big Cable and Phone Companies, New Research Finds | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it
Even after the financial meltdown and the Great Recession, Americans still trust their cable and telephone companies even less than bailed-out financial institutions, mortgage brokers, credit card issuers, insurance companies, and airlines.
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October 21, 2011 12:37 PM
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Final BRAID (Bridging Research in Ageing and ICT Development) Workshop

The efficient engagement of relevant stakeholder groups is a key ingredient in the BRAID project for successfully addressing pertinent issues relevant to ICT and ageing.
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October 21, 2011 1:43 PM
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Kerry Urges Fairness For Massachusetts In Universal Service Fund Reform

Kerry Urges Fairness For Massachusetts In Universal Service Fund Reform | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it
WASHINGTON, D.C.- Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.), Chairman of the Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet, released the subsequent (Kerry Urges Fairness For Massachusetts In Universal Service Fund Reform
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October 21, 2011 1:40 PM
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Verizon Adds Just 20,000 Net Broadband Users in Q3 – Survives Strikes & Storms, Wireless Growth Still Strong

Verizon Adds Just 20,000 Net Broadband Users in Q3 – Survives Strikes & Storms, Wireless Growth Still Strong | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it
Verizon's latest earnings report has arrived, the company posting earnings of $3.54 billion, or 49 cents a share, on revenue of $27.9 billion.
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October 21, 2011 1:37 PM
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MLab Data Highlights the Evolution of ISP Throttling – And How Consumer Complaints Changed ISP Practices

MLab Data Highlights the Evolution of ISP Throttling – And How Consumer Complaints Changed ISP Practices | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it
A few years ago Google, in cooperation with academic researchers, the New America Foundation and the PlanetLab Consortium, launched Measurement Lab (M-Lab).
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October 21, 2011 1:35 PM
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Q&A: Why Acision took telco messaging service to the cloud

Q&A: Why Acision took telco messaging service to the cloud | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it
Vendor rolls out personalized mobile messaging services for carriers as a cloud offering, letting operators try out individual features with their customers to see what they like -- and will pay for...
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October 21, 2011 1:26 PM
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Reverse Mentoring

Pairing senior executives with digital natives seems like an obvious win for the digitally challenged; you put in a few hours a week, and the youngster teaches you how to use Twitter and Facebook.
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October 21, 2011 1:19 PM
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MP Calls For Energy Company Fines For Uncompetitive Behaviour

MP Calls For Energy Company Fines For Uncompetitive Behaviour | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it
He said the money from these fines should be put in a “consolidated fund via the Treasury” and then distributed to consumers. But it's not just domestic energy prices which have increased this year – business gas tariffs and ...
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October 21, 2011 1:17 PM
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TODAY’S STUDY: NEW ENERGY IN THE MARKETPLACE

TODAY’S STUDY: NEW ENERGY IN THE MARKETPLACE | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it
Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2011; Analysis of Trends and Issues in the Financing of Renewable EnergyOctober 2011 (United Nations Environment Program, Bloomberg New Energy Finance and the Frankfurt School)Key Findings-Global...
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October 21, 2011 1:14 PM
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Clay Christensen: 5 observations on innovation

Clay Christensen: 5 observations on innovation | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it

On Wednesday, Christensen delivered a keynote here at the Gartner Symposium that left a lot to think about.

 

Here are five innovation takeaways worth pondering:

 

1. Disruption comes from below.

2. Universities are on the verge of being disrupted

3. Decentralization can reinvent health care

4. Pursuit of profit ratios distorts innovation

5. If you organize product strategy around a job, the business can be defended

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October 21, 2011 12:56 PM
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Port of Houston adds optical character recognition tech

Port of Houston adds optical character recognition tech | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it
The Port of Houston Authority will deploy optical character recognition technology to speed up truck processing and cut down on emissions.
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October 21, 2011 12:42 PM
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EU smart grid preparations lag technology advances - Environmental Finance

EU smart grid preparations lag technology advances - Environmental Finance | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it
EU smart grid preparations lag technology advancesEnvironmental FinanceThe EU needs to do much more if it is to achieve sustainable electricity supplies managed by smart grids across the bloc's 27 member states, according to experts.
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October 21, 2011 12:40 PM
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Virgin Mobile's payLo wants to make savers feel savvy

Virgin Mobile's payLo wants to make savers feel savvy | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it
Virgin Mobile's payLo contract-free brand, a newer face on the prepaid scene, is teaming aggressively with Best Buy and working to edge out T-Mobile's $30 prepaid offer.
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October 21, 2011 12:39 PM
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Cord Cutters Can Now Buy Package of Streaming News Channels

Cord Cutters Can Now Buy Package of Streaming News Channels | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it
Besides sports, the biggest challenge for cord-cutters is to find access to 24-hour news channels they give up when they cancel pay television service.  While cable news often doesn’t actually spend much time on “news” when breaking stories are few...
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