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The Daily Yonder has a great piece on the challenges rural communities face in getting adequate broadband services. It is a fairly long article, but worth a complete read because there are really two stories in it.
As a bunch of folks have submitted in one form or another, police in the United Arab Emirates are claiming that a significant dropoff in traffic accidents in the past week or so is due to the giant Blackberry outage that made many of the devices...
Ontario's Hydrogenics has won a contract to supply a hydrogen production, storage and fuel cell system to the German city of Herten, the Mississauga-based company announced today.Developing the means to manage intermittent electricity generation...
By sparing just a few minutes of your time to take the Accelerate Virginia speed test, you will help encourage the growth and development of affordable broadband services in your community. Better broadband accelerates all ...
Former Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Va., a key player on tech and telecom issues for more than two decades, made some bold and not-so-bold predictions on Wednesday about the fate of privacy and data security legislation this Congress.
Is the typical superfast broadband user different from broadband users? Does subscribing to superfast broadband affect households' equipment purchases? What applications are helped by superfast broadband?
While US courts have started to make it clear that recording police on duty is perfectly legal, it appears that France is going in the opposite direction.
The NTIA is in the process of figuring out what portion of federally occupied spectrum can be used for wireless broadband. ... In the United States, unused “white space” television frequencies are primarily in the UHF band.
Some 85% of individuals in Scotland have not received any information regarding the smart energy grid, according to research commissioned by Logica, a business & technology service company, helping private and public sector organisations address...
One of the big battles in the patent world, as you probably know, involves the convoluted ways in which companies try to file and keep patent lawsuits in the notoriously patent holder-friendly East Texas.
Recognizing that retirees and others “of an age” did not enjoy the advantage of on-the-job computer training a number of state and local agencies are working together and with public agencies including libraries to provide learning opportunities...
Broadband insights for local government, business and communities. Share this: Dr Helen Thompson – Director of the Centre for eCommerce and Communications (CeCC) at the University of Ballarat and broadband champion – shared ...
According to new a research report from the analyst firm Berg Insight, the installed base of smart electricity meters in North America will grow at a compound…...
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AT&T Inc., the wireless carrier fighting U.S. efforts to block its proposed acquisition of T- Mobile USA Inc., asked for data on rival Sprint Nextel Corp.’s past corporate transactions.
The United States has yet to find a solution that assures seamless communications among first responders and emergency personnel at the scene of a major disaster. ...
For years we've seen Silicon Valley basically ignore what's happening in Washington DC, and this has allowed certain other industries to take advantage of that policy.
You may have heard about the Smart Grid, it has become a buzz word around developments in the energy market. But not everyone knows what the grid is, let alone the Smart Grid.
After nearly a half-million Canadians expressed outrage about Bell’s Internet Overcharging practices, the company is responding. This week, Bell sent a letter to their wholesale customers announcing it plans to end the practice of speed throttling...
Cloudless desert skies and the nation’s highest unemployment rate are turning the Imperial Valley into a testing ground for the nation’s push to create green jobs and innovate its way back to prosperity.
It looks like supporters of fully legalizing online poker may get a chance to make their case before Congress.
A Miami woman fell to pieces when T-Mobile sent her a cell phone bill that was higher than the purchase price of many nice suburban homes, after a two-week trip to Canada turned into a data roaming disaster.
UPDATE: When asked about the letter Rockefeller sent to FTC Chairman Leibowitz asking for information on facial recognition, Jessica Rich, deputy director of the FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection, said that the agency will “report back to Chairman...
ON World's latest research finds that within the next five years, affordable Smart Home systems will reach tens of millions of homes worldwide, enabled by an expanding IP infrastructure, smart mobile devices, cloud services, and sensor network...
In times of panic, rational thought goes out the window. In a desperate bid to save money on energy bills, some Brits may be tempted to go to extreme lengths.
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