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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... - Massachusetts Broadband Institute Will Use Mapping to Identify Unserved and Underserved Areas
BroadbandCensus.com By Drew Clark WASHINGTON, May 10, 2009 – The Massachusetts Broadband Institute on Wednesday announced that it would work with the MassGIS, the state’s Office of Geograp... - 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... - Obama Releases Cybersecurity Report: âMuch Work to Be Doneâ
Wall Street Journal President Barack Obama said Friday that cybersecurity is critically important and an area that the U.S. isn’t “as prepared as we should be,” though he added that ... - Electronic Patient Records Will Force Consolidation in Health Care
New York Times By Steve LohrThe Obama administration’s ambitious plan to accelerate the adoption of electronic patient records will be a “steamroller” that drives the consolida... - 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... - CWA: National Broadband Plan Must Include Public Hearings, Benchmarks for Progress
Reuters (Press Release) WASHINGTON--(Business Wire)--The Communications Workers of America commends the Federal Communications Commission for moving forward promptly to develop a national broadband pl... - Blog: Broadband expansion remains a top priority for Obama administration
SpeedMatters.org Even after passing a stimulus package that invests billions in broadband, President Obama\'s administration reaffirmed its commitment to expanding high speed Internet access across A... - 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... - Narrowing the digital divide by nurturing a âbusiness-readyâ workforce
Financial Times By Chris Miller of CAWe often hear about the “digital divide” between those connected to the online world and underprivileged sections of society unable to reap the same be... - 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 ... - Gov. Schwarzenegger wants California\'s schools to adopt digital textbooks
San Jose Mercury News By Dana HullKids spend a lot of time on the Internet — listening to music, watching videos and researching schoolwork.So why, asks Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, are students ... - 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... - Government Makes $4 Billion Down Payment on Project to Expand Broadband
Washington Post By Cecilia Kang Vice President Biden yesterday announced guidelines for $4 billion in stimulus funds to expand high-speed Internet access across the nation, jump-starting a program tha... - 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... - Map marks a step for broadband: North Carolina starts making its case for stimulus funds to encourage universal access.
TMCNet RALEIGH, Jul 10, 2009 (The News & Observer - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- Millions of dollars in federal aid may not be enough to extend high-speed Internet access ... - HP Taps Technology Strategist Larry Irving to Lead Global Government Affairs
BUSINESS WIRE PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HP (NYSE:HPQ) today announced that Larry Irving, one of the nation’s leading thinkers on technology and innovation, will join the company as vic... - 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... - Laptop? Check. Student Playlist? Check. Classroom of the Future? Check..
New York TimesBy JENNIFER MEDINAThe seating arrangements are compared to airport traffic patterns. The student schedules are called playlists. And lesson plans are generated by a complicated computer ... - 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... - Broadband Investment Spurs Business Growth and Job Creation, Studies Find
BroadbandCensus.com By Douglas StreeksWASHINGTON, July 23, 2009 - Broadband investment, deployment and adoption in the United States will bring significant benefits to the economy, and facilitate busi... - 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... - Seldom-Heard Compliment for Atlantaâs Mayor: âYou Were Rightâ
New York Times By SHAILA DEWANATLANTA — Over the last 18 months, it has seemed as if the recession is foreclosing on yet another victim: the legacy of Mayor Shirley Franklin of Atlanta, the firs... - 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... - FCC Broadband Czar Says Agency Plan Is Start of âDynamic Processâ
BroadbandCensus.com By Andrew Feinberg WASHINGTON, September 3, 2009 – Federal Communications Commission broadband czar Blair Levin dismissed critics of the commission’s process in creatin... - 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... - N.C. Governor Perdue Announces Application for $28.1 Million in Broadband Recovery Funding
Reuters RALEIGH, N.C., Sept. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue today announced that MCNC has applied to receive $28.1 million in broadband recovery funding through the American Recovery... - Broadband Now Essential to Online Jobs Searching, Say FCC Panelists
BroadbandCensus.com By Christina Kirchner WASHINGTON, August 26, 2009 – The Federal Communication Commission’s August 26 workshop on high-speed internet’s impact on job trainin... - 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... - InformationWeek 500: 10 Government Organizations That Understand IT Innovation
InformationWeek By John Foley Cheaper, faster, better isn\'t just the rallying cry of the private sector. IT professionals in government, as in all industries, are under pressure. Sure, resources ... - 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... - To friend or not to friend? College admissions in the age of Facebook
USA TODAY By Lindsey Anderson Facebook isn\'t just for socializing anymore — a new survey of college admissions officials suggests students are increasingly taking care of business on the site a... - 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... - Genachowski, Copps, Address Role of Broadband in Aiding Minority Communities
BroadbandCensus.com By Mercy GakiiWASHINGTON, September 23, 2009 – Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski on Tuesday highlighted the importance of a robust broadband netwo... - 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... - Communications Workers of America Urges FCC to Ensure Open Internet Rulemaking Supports Job Creation
SpeedMatters.org The Communications Workers of America (CWA) called on the Federal Communications Commission to ensure that its upcoming rulemaking on policies to preserve a free and open Internet put... - 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... - Applicants For Stimulus Funds Should Expect A Long Wait; ACORN Deemed Ineligible
BroadbandCensus.com By Winter CaseyWASHINGTON, November 3, 2009 – Between the government’s slowness in announcing recipients of its broadband stimulus grants and the process of dolling out... - 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 ... - Knight Foundation invests $5 million to spur Detroitâs tech sector.
Detroit Technology Examiner In a gesture intended to \"lay a new economic and cultural foundation for Detroit\", the Knight Foundation has invested $5 million in Detroit\'s existing technology infrast... - GridPoint Acquires ADMMicro, Extending Smart Grid Solutions to Commercial & Industrial Customers
Press Release Proven Systems Deployed Nationwide by Fortune 500 and Public Sector Customers ARLINGTON, VA – Nov. 9, 2009 − GridPoint, Inc., a leading smart grid company, today announced... - 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... - Seven More States Awarded Broadband Data and Mapping Grants By NTIA; Total is 15
BroadbandCensus.com By Rahul Gaitonde WASHINGTON, November 9, 2009 - On Friday, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration announced seven new state recipients of the state broadba... - 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 ... - Towards Universal Broadband: Flexible Broadband Pricing and the Digital Divide
BroadbandCensus.com By Christina KirchnerWASHINGTON, November 16, 2009 – The difference in the adoption of high-speed internet technology between the technological savvy and the unsophisticated ... - 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... - Digital Divide Appears Between Hospitals That Treat The Rich And Poor
Kaiser Health News\"Hospitals that disproportionately care for poor patients are less likely than other hospitals to have adopted health information technology,\" according to an October study publish... - 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... - The Internet Must Not Become a Segregated Community
Huffington Post Co-authored by Malkia Cyril, Chris Rabb and Joseph Torres When Fox News Glenn Beck called President Barack Obama a racist this past July, the online advocacy group ColorOfChange.org la... - Gates Foundation Boosts Library Broadband Efforts
School Library Journal By Norman Oder As demand for library Internet access continues to grow, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced two plans to help libraries improve broadband conne... - Legislators of Color Urge Assault on Digital Divide; Say Status Quo is Unacceptable
TMCnet MIAMI --(Business Wire)-- In a joint report on expanding broadband opportunity, entitled Toward Access, Adoption and Inclusion: A Call For Digital Equality and Broadband Opportunity, state legi... - Government offers cash to get next million online
BBC News The UK government has pledged to get another one million people online by 2012 as it pushes ahead with moving the majority of its services onto the web. It has announced a £30m cash inj... - If You Can Draw It on a Whiteboard, You Can Send It to a Kindle
GigaOM By Kevin C. Tofel As a “type A” student, I routinely tried to write down nearly everything my teachers wrote on the chalkboard. Aside from blisters and far too many trips to the pen... - Obama team launches its interactive openness policy with online access
USA Today By Dan Vergano Open government? Theres an app for that.Or so the Obama administration proposes, rolling out a transparency, participation and collaboration directive for all federal departme... - Federal agencies must post public data online
Washington Post By Ed O\'Keefe The White House released a series of wide-ranging mandates Tuesday designed to make agencies more transparent and cooperative in the public\'s requests for informa... - AT&T boosts top broadband speed in 3 markets
Associated Press By PETER SVENSSON NEW YORK — AT&T Inc. is boosting its top available broadband speeds in Austin, Texas, San Antonio and St. Louis in preparation for a wider rollout.The new ... - FCC Considers Opening Up the Pipes
Wall Street Journal By Amy SchatzShould the U.S. adopt rules that would require Internet providers to share their broadband lines with rivals, like other countries?Debate over that controversial idea ... - Nielsen: More seniors becoming Web regulars
CNet by Don Reisinger Although those aged 65 and older make up less than 10 percent of active Web users, a new Nielsen study has found that over the past five years, the number of seniors using the In... - Rockefeller Introduces USF Bill On Broadband For Low-Income Households
Broadcasting & Cable By John Eggerton Would create a two-year \"pilot program\" covering broadband for low-income families, phone serviceSenate Commerce Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) has intr... - $7.4 billion in stimulus projects to extend broadband to poor and rural areas
Washington Post By Cecilia Kang The Obama administration named 18 projects Thursday that would receive a portion of the $7.4 billion in stimulus funds set aside to bring high-speed Internet to poor an... - Digital Harmony Program At Nims Middle School
WCTV (Tallahassee, FL) Reporter: Alyssa Orange One local middle school is getting help to enhance students interest in Science and Technology.Nims Middle School is taking technology to the next level.... - Mobile Phone Cancellation Fees Help the Poor, Verizon Tells Feds
Wired By Ryan Singel Verizon defended its early termination charges for cellphone contracts Friday, telling federal regulators that the high fees help the poor by making it more affordable for them to... - New Programs Aim to Lure Young Into Digital Jobs
New York Times By STEVE LOHR Growing up in the ’70s, John Halamka was a bookish child with a penchant for science and electronics. He wore black horn-rimmed glasses and buttoned his shirts up to... - NTIA, RUS trickle out first broadband stimulus awards
Fierce Broadband Wireless By lluna The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) trickled out the first broadband stimulus awards, announcing $182-million worth of awards. But ... - Virtual medical IDs would store data, call loved ones
Detroit Free Press BY LAURAN NEERGAARD Web registry could save lives, some say WASHINGTON -- Emergency health alerts for the Facebook generation? The nation\'s ambulance crews are pushing a virtual me... - Stimulus Money: Much Approved, Little Deployed
PCWorld The U.S. Congress poured billions of dollars into three technology-related programs when it passed a huge spending bill designed to stimulate a sluggish U.S...The U.S. Congress poured billions... - Latinos on front line online
Chicago Tribune NEW YORK -- Latino adults are increasing their use of the Internet faster than other ethnic groups, according to a new survey from the Pew Hispanic Center and the Pew Internet and Amer... - FCC Clyburn criticizes Verizon Wireless justification for doubling fees
Washington Post Federal Communications Commission member Mignon Clyburn said Wednesday that Verizon Wireless’ justifications for raising the fines it charges for canceled contracts are “un... - NTIA Gives Millions To Connected Nation, Announces 15 Broadband Mapping Grants
BroadbandBreakfast.com WASHINGTON, December 22, 2009 – Connected Nation, which bills itself as a national non-profit organization that seeks to expand access to broadband internet, hit the jackp... - S.C. gets $1.2 million to study broadband
The Times and Democrat The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration has awarded a $1.7 million grant to Connected Nation to increase broadband acc... - Smart Phone Technology helps African-Americans, Hispanics Close Digital Divide
Black Voice News By Chris Levister When Riverside Community College students Shelia Wellington and Daniel Garrett purchased Christmas gifts for friends and loved ones last week, they escaped the parki... - Connect Illinois Initiative to feature latest in broadband mapping technology
Benton Evening News SPRINGFIELD - An Illinois project has received federal support through a grant in the amount of $1.8 million from the US Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications ... - The Communicators: FCC Broadband Initiative
CSPAN Video Blair Levin, the FCC\'s Broadband Initiative Director, tells C-SPAN\'s \"The Communicators\" about progress on the national broadband project and a report to Congress on the program due sh... - Sen. Durbin Joins Lawmakers Cheering On State Broadband Grants
BroadbandBreakfast.com By Winter Casey WASHINGTON, December 29, 2009 – Assistant Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin, D-Ill., last week joined the bandwagon of lawmakers voicing support for the g... - Will Deliver National Broadband Plan To Congress By Feb. 17
Multichannel News By John EggertonFederal Communications Commission broadband advisor Blair Levin\'s team has been working over the holidays as they bear down on a Feb. 17 deadline Levin tells Multich... - Across the Digital Divide
Berkeley Daily Planet By Chadidjah McFall Digital literacy is a crucial survival skill and many who have tried to remedy their deficiencies in this area have found, as I have, that they are humiliate... - Smarter Energy Open to Everyone or This Decade\'s Digital Divide?
TMC Net By Robin Wright“Smart Grids: An Introduction,” is a report published by the Department of Energy, or “DOE,” to introduce U.S. consumers to the goals, benefits and smart... - Lawmakers Urge Incentives To Increase Broadband Adoption
Black Web 2.0 By Lesly SimmonsA new report on the broadband needs of minority communities from a group of state legislators of color highlights the policy actions needed to increase broadband access i... - Five Tech Themes for 2010
New York Times By JENNA WORTHAMIt’s hard to believe that a decade ago, there was no Facebook, iPhone, Wikipedia or YouTube. Almost shocking, considering how those entities have shaped a culture ... - Technology leaders believe content will go mobile over next ten years
Tulsa Worldby: ROBERT EVATTYou may think technology became futuristic in the past decade, but you ain\'t seen nothing yet.That\'s the consensus of several Oklahoma technology executives who were asked... - How Will We Teach?
NBC Dallas-Fort Worth It\'s difficult to predict how schools will change in the next ten years. Many districts have five year plans, but a decade is tough to forecast.One thing they know for sur... - Non-Profit Organization Combats Violence with Technology
39online.com (Houston) By Mayra MorenoNearly a month after the shooting death of a seventeen-year-old star football player police still don\'t have any leads. Touched by the tragedy of that young man,... - FCC: Broadband Critical For Often Undervalued Small Business Market
BroadbandBreakfast.comBy Eli EvansWASHINGTON, January 4, 2010 – At a field hearing at the University of Chicago on December 21, 2009, the Federal Communications Commission voiced its commitment ... - Welcome to 2010: what\'s up this week
Washington Post Happy 2010s (that\'s twenty-tens, thank you), and the new decade begins with a ton of tech policy news this week.ANTITRUST and ONLINE VIDEO-- Public interest groups, led by Free Press,... - FCC Seeks Extension for National Broadband Plan
New York Times By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSWASHINGTON (AP) -- The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission is asking for a one-month extension on the national broadband plan the agency is required... - Minority, Womens Organizations Call on FCC to Ponder Net Neutrality Rules
Broadcasting & CableBy John Eggerton Groups ask for workshop on possible negative impact on access to broadband A group of minority and women\'s organizations have called on the FCC to think har... - Broadband Stimulus Lacks Bandwidth
Forbes By Daniel HaysThe federal government\'s announcement of the first broadband stimulus awards is a terrific first step in extending the reach of broadband communications across the United States.... - Genachwoski: Broadband Plan Will Be Bold, Pro-Active
Broadcasting & Cable By John Eggerton Chairman says FCC will address spectrum shortages and adoption problems FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski says the FCC\'s upcoming broadband plan will propose... - White House announces $250M effort for science and math teachers
Washington Post By Nick AndersonPresident Obama announced a $250 million public-private effort Wednesday to improve science and mathematics instruction, aiming to help the nation compete in key fields... - Why the White House is backing away from Net neutrality
CNet Editors\' note: This is a guest column. See Larry Downes\' bio below.The Obama administration and its allies at the Federal Communications Commission are retreating from a militant version of Net... - Minority businesses bridging the digital divide
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette By Mackenzie Carpenter What digital divide? Curtis Brown was on the phone enthusing about how social media have boosted his Verona-based mobile marketing business when suddenly... - Minority Groups Ask FCC for âDigital Equal Opportunityâ in Broadband Plan
Black Web 2.0 By Lesly Simmons Sixteen organizations representing a diverse swathe of the American public are urging the Federal Communications Commission to recognize that any changes affecting net n... - Cherry Hill digitizes books to help students
Cherry Hill Courier Post By BARBARA S. ROTHSCHILD In a groundbreaking effort that could help schools and parents nationwide, faculty and parent volunteers at several Cherry Hill public schools have la... - Kids electronic media use jumps to 53 hours a week
USA TODAY By Greg Toppo Compared with peers a decade ago, young people spend 79 more minutes of free time each day listening to music, watching TV and movies, playing video games and hanging out onlin... - Broadband users more likely find jobs, study says
The HillBy Kim HartJob seekers who use the Internet are more likely to keep actively looking for jobs and less likely to drop out of the labor pool than those without Internet access, according to a n... - Levin: Net Has Potential to Improve Minority Job, Health Care, Education Opportunities
Broadcasting & Cable By John Eggerton Broadband advisor says closing digital divide is vital The Internet has the potential to \"exacerbate in equality,\" which is why universal broadband deplo... - U.S. Broadband Registration Growth to Drop 10 Percent in 2010: Report
TMCNet Approximately 4 million U.S. households will newly sign up for high-speed Internet service this year, yet there will be 10 percent decline in subscriber growth compared to 2009, according to a ... - Public Libraries Playing Crucial Role In Bridging The Digital Divide
eGov monitor The key role of public libraries in opening up free online access and providing support to help people get online is highlighted in a new research report.A new survey has highlighted the ... - Broadband application for Western Mass. is stymied
Boston Globe GREENFIELD -- Plans to bring high-speed telecommunications to all of Western Massachusetts have suffered a setback with the rejection of an application for $100 million in federal stimulu... - RUS Awards $310M in Broadband Funding
Wireless Week By Maisie Ramsay The USDA Rural Utilities Service (RUS) has handed out over $310 million in federal broadband stimulus money for 14 middle mile and last mile projects.Just one of the pro... - Obama to Field Questions Posted by YouTube Users
New York Times By BRIAN STELTEROn Monday, President Obama is scheduled to sit down in the library of the White House residence for his first interview since his State of the Union address.The intervie... - Lawmaker Pushes for New Broadband Funding
PCWorld Representative Matsui calls on the FCC to subsidize broadband service through the USF. The U.S. government should spend more on broadband adoption by redirecting money from a fund that subsidi... - Minority Chambers of Commerce Aim to Amplify Message to the FCC: Whats Next for Internet Regulation and the National Broadband Plan?
PR Newswire The National Black Chamber of Commerce, the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, and the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce reiterate points raised in a joint filing to th... - Temple interns to report on city technology issues
Technically Philly Chelsea Leposa and Jared Pass will be among the first. They come to us as interns from Temple University’s journalism capstone class, the Multimedia Urban Reporting Lab, which... - Plan for Free Access to a Cloud Computing Service
New York Times By JOHN MARKOFF The National Science Foundation and Microsoft Corporation have agreed to offer American scientific researchers free access to the company’s new cloud computing ser... - FCC to promote mobile health apps in broadband plan
Government Health IT By Mary Mosquera The Federal Communications Commission wants to foster the use of wireless devices and applications in healthcare as part of a national broadband plan the agency e... - Local company bridging digital divide
ABC7Chicago.com By Hosea Sanders February 5, 2010 (CHICAGO) (WLS) -- A local program is keeping computers out of landfills and putting them into the hands of needy school children.Safely disposing of ... - The digital divide
Denver Post By Bridget Cassidy Last year, my Midwest mom met two major milestones. She turned 80 in August. A few months later, Mom went out and bought her first computer. She rang me with the news.\"... - Fiber Broadband Subscribers to Total 106 Million Worldwide in 2014: Report
TMCnet By Jyothi Mahalingham During the year 2009, the number of fixed broadband subscribers rose to 422 million, achieving an increase of 9 percent from 2008.ABI Research (News - Alert), a market int... - Markey introduces bill to provide broadband to low-income students
The Hill By Kim Hart Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) introduced a bill today to update the E-Rate program to help close the digital divide.Markey authored the original E-Rate bill that, in 1996, allowed scho... - Benjamin L. Hooks: Internet service crucial to advancement
The Commercial Appeal By Benjamin L. Hooks, Special to Viewpoint The FCC\'s focus should be on how it can quickly deploy high-speed systems across America. The nation\'s top officials at the ... - Tech-savvy iGeneration kids multi-task, connect
USA TODAY By Sharon JaysonMove over, Millennials. You\'re not the younger generation anymore.For the past decade, you were the ones to watch. But now, as the eldest among you are fast approaching 30, ... - Wi-Fi Turns Rowdy Bus Into Rolling Study Hall
New York Times By SAM DILLON VAIL, Ariz. — Students endure hundreds of hours on yellow buses each year getting to and from school in this desert exurb of Tucson, and stir-crazy teenagers break t... - Investors Giving Billions for Mobile Broadband
TMCnet By Marisa Torrieri Consumers burdened with money woes might be tightening their purse strings – but they sure aren’t skimping on mobile spending. Neither are investors.The GSM Assoc... - Phila. Holds Series of Free Technology Centered Events
KYW1060.com by KYW’s Karin Phillips The Mayor\'s Commission on Technology is holding a week-long series of events in Philadelphia in an effort to narrow the digital divide in the African America... - The Revolution Has Gone Mobile
New York TimesEditorialpublished 2-19-2010By mid-2010, there will be 6.8 billion humans on this planet. According to United Nations estimates, there also will be five billion cellphone subscriptions. ... - Obama announces get-tough strategy for struggling schools
By Michael A. Fletcher and Nick AndersonWashington Post Staff WriterMonday, March 1, 2010; 1:16 PM President Obama outlined Monday a get-tough strategy for turning around persistently struggling sch... - Atlanta is No. 2 on Forbes\' list of âMost Wired Cities\'
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution By Kristi E. Swartz 5:52 p.m. Wednesday, March 3, 2010 Being second shouldn’t really be seen as a downer, Forbes said. Atlanta still has the highest number of ... - Better broadband is necessity for jobs of future
Asheville Citizen-Times America has always been built on connections. We connected our country early on with canals and turnpikes, then railroads and telegraph wires, then telephone and electric wirin... - A Plan for Broadband
New York Times Editorial The Federal Communications Commission’s broadband strategy comes not a moment too soon. High-speed Internet is on its way to replacing the telephone as the nation’... - Bridging the other digital divide: National broadband plan can generate jobs for hard-hit communities
The Hill By Samuel S. Kang The National Broadband Plan, released last week by the Federal Communications Commission and being discussed by the House Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the ... - Policy makers, businesses debate role of Washington in cloud computing
Washington Post By Cecilia Kang Behind Facebook, Gmail and the Bing search engine is a multibillion-dollar shift in technology that users don’t see and Washington doesn’t quite know how to... - Digital divide for kids, adults: Is bloom off the blog?
St. Louis Post-Dispatch By Tim Barker ST. LOUIS -- There was a time when Sarah Truckey had a close relationship with her blog. The St. Louis-based freelance writer visited it every couple of days, sha... - Court Strikes at Net Neutrality
Wall Street Journal By AMY SCHATZ And BRENT KENDALL WASHINGTON—A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the Federal Communications Commission exceeded its authority when it sanctioned Comcast ... - One-third of Americans access broadband Internet at public libraries
SpeedMatters.org Nearly one-third of Americans age 14 or older used a public library computer or wireless network to access high-speed Internet in the past year, according to a report produced by the ... - U.S. Court Curbs F.C.C. Authority on Web Traffic
New York Times By EDWARD WYATT WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that regulators had limited power over Web traffic under current law. The decision will allow Internet servic... - How Fast Is Your Broadband?
New York Times There are many ways for marketing professionals to bamboozle customers into believing they are getting a better deal than they actually are — notable among them “as low as&r... - FCC Seeks New Web Plan
Wall Street Journal By AMY SCHATZ And NIRAJ SHETH WASHINGTON—Federal Communications Commission members began the work of relaunching their broadband strategy Wednesday, a day after a court threw... - Where a Cellphone Is Still Cutting Edge
New York Times By ANAND GIRIDHARADAS What if, globally speaking, the iPad is not the next big thing? What if the next big thing is small, cheap and not American?America went into a frenzy last weekend... - Google accused of YouTube free ride
Financial Times By Andrew Parker in London and Richard Waters in San Francisco Some of Europe\'s leading telecoms groups are squaring up for a fight with Google over what they claim is the free ride e... - Access to Internet vital for the poor
Atlanta Journal ConstitutionBy Isaac Newton Farris Jr.In the 1960s and ’70s, television brought images of war in Vietnam and riots in our cities into households throughout America. In the proces... - Tech Leads Jobs Recovery
Google, Intel Add Workers as Profits Snap Back; Start-Ups Also Fight for TalentBy CARI TUNA, JESSICA E. VASCELLARO And PUI-WING TAM The technology industry, an engine of innovation and U.S. prosperity... - Obama Pushes Minority Entrepreneurship and Tech
Black Web 2.0by AngelaIn the past few weeks entrepreneurship has been a blazing hot topic. Between Bob Johnson’s article on opportunities and obstacles minority small businesses face and t... - FCC Chairman Genachowski expected to leave broadband services deregulated
Washington PostBy Cecilia KangThe chairman of the Federal Communications Commission has indicated he wants to keep broadband services deregulated, according to sources, even as a federal court decisio... - Leveraging Facebook to Find a Job
New York Times By JENNA WORTHAM Most people use Facebook to keep in touch with their friends, plan their social calendars, crowdsource apartment hunts and even finagle a first date.Why not use it to l... - FCC reclassification would face political, legal opposition, analysts say
Washington Post Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski’s reluctance to reclassify broadband as a Title II service suggests that pursuing such a course could be a struggle ... - Experts Express Concerns Over Broadband Plan to Small Business Committee
BroadbandBreakfast.comBy Sharon McLooneWASHINGTON, May 4, 2010 – Small businesses must have better access to broadband technology to flourish, propel the nation’s economic growth and to be... - Teens caught in the middle of a videotaped melee speak out
khou.com By Juanita Jimenez SUNNYSIDE, Texas —Two teenagers caught in the middle of a melee posted on the internet are telling their side of the story, days after the violent images sparked outr... - Todays job seekers add social to networking
USA TODAY By Julia Schmalz MCLEAN, Va. — On stage in front of a crowded room of job seekers at the McLean Bible Church, Bob Korzeniewski asks for volunteers to step up and recite the 30-second p... - Bridging a digital divide
Advocate Acadiana Bureau LAFAYETTE — A recent conference on the potential of Lafayette’s new publicly owned fiber-optic Internet service left community activist Je’Nelle Chargois wit... - Positive Results for Online Government
New York Times By TEDDY WAYNE Americans haven’t de-friended the government just yet, according to a recent Pew report: 61 percent of adults looked for information or made transactions on a gover... - Technology for the Solo Entrepreneur
Wall Street Journal By WILLIAM M. BULKELEY A host of new gadgets is making it easier than ever to work on your ownAs the economy pushes more corporate workers out into freelance work, technology... - Kerry to chair hearing on improving Web access for deaf, blind
The Hill By Tony Romm Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) will chair a hearing next week on legislation that would require technology companies, phone manufacturers and Web vendors to adapt their products for d... - The Top 10 Cities With the Best Broadband
GigaOm The company behind the broadband speed testing site Speedtest.net is ready to go beyond testing broadband quality and into the data game. Seattle-based Ookla has introduced a broadband in... - Communications Law to be Reviewed
New York Times By EDWARD WYATT WASHINGTON — Two top Democratic legislators said Monday that they would begin a process to modernize telecommunications laws that were last overhauled in 1996 but ... - FCC Re-Designation of Broadband Will Bring Unwanted Market Uncertainty
Huffington Post By Harold Ford, Jr. There has been a significant amount of news coverage regarding the recent announcement by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that, for the first time... - Why broadband regulation needs help from Congress
Washington Post JULIUS GENACHOWSKI, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, cannot win for losing.Internet service providers (ISPs), including Comcast and AT&T, insist that a light touc... - CWA Welcomes Congressional Role in Clarifying FCC Authority
Communication Workers of America Washington, D.C. - May 24, 2010 - Communications Workers of America President Larry Cohen today issued the following statement after key committee chairs in both the U... - Congress Considering Rewrite Of Telecom Law
InformationWeek House and Senate leaders are looking to take up the contentious issue of whether to reclassify broadband as a telecommunications service, subjecting it to more regulation. By W. David ... - Google tries its hand at influence in Washington
Washington Post By Ariana Eunjung Cha and Cecilia Kang When someone as influential as Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV requests your presence at a hearing, Washington insiders know it\'s more of a summons ... - F.C.C. Begins Review of Regulations on Media Ownership
New York Times By EDWARD WYATT WASHINGTON — The Federal Communications Commission said on Tuesday that it would begin soliciting public comments as part of a review and possible revision of its ... - NTIA Expands Mapping, Opens Up Funds For Other Uses
Multichannel News By John Eggerton Applications Have Until July 1 To Amend Filings The National Telecommunications & Information Administration will give states and other local broadband data gran... - Most Consumers Unaware of Broadband Speed
Wall Street Journal By AMY SCHATZWASHINGTON—Most Americans have no idea how fast their home broadband connections are, but they are basically happy with the service, a new study finds.The report... - Digital divide
Detroit Metro Times This week: Digital Justice and the Allied Media Conference The Detroit Digital Justice Coalition will provide \"interactive, multimedia workshops designed to demystify, engage and ... - Rural Lawmakers Voice Concern With Broadband Plan
National Journal By Juliana Gruenwald FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski\'s broadband policies are under renewed criticism. This time, concerns are being raised by a bipartisan group of House lawmakers w... - AT&T wireless scraps flat-rate Internet plan
Washington Post By Cecilia Kang New iPhone and iPad customers: AT&T\'s putting an end to its all-you-can-eat Internet plans. AT&T on Wednesday announced data plans for new smart phone customer... - Bring the Power Back to the People
Huffington Post By Danny Bakewell Members of Congress from both sides of the aisle have sent a clear message to the five Commissioners of the Federal Communications Commission regarding new inte... - Mayor\'s panel to consider Baltimore\'s fiber options
The Baltimore Sun Officials envision new fiber-optic network in the city — with or without GoogleBy Gus G. SentementesTwo months ago, city officials and business leaders were giddy with the noti... - US FCC warns of higher public safety costs
Reuters By John Poirier WASHINGTON, June 2 (Reuters) - Delays in building out a wireless broadband network for public safety workers could increase the program\'s cost to nearly $16 billion, a top U.S... - Google to hand over intercepted data
Financial Times By Maija Palmer and Lionel Barber Google will begin handing over to European regulators the rogue data it intercepted from private WiFi internet connections within the next two days, i... - Technology: Spaces invader
Financial Times By Richard Waters and Joseph Menn It is likely to be business as usual on Monday when Steve Jobs takes the stage in San Francisco to show off the fourth generation of Apple’s gro... - Elevate Miami helps deserving families obtain computers
The Miami HeraldBY ANNA QUINTANADrums rolled and students cheered as the first computer was unveiled.The black Dell computer sitting center stage was one of 150 presented to students and their parents... - AT&T Wireless Plan May Lift Cable
Wall Street Journal By NAT WORDENAT&T Inc.\'s decision to shift its wireless-data pricing to a usage-based model may have upset lovers of mobile media, but it\'s music to the ears of cable executi... - Clyburn shows support for Title II net neutrality
Fierce Telecom By Sean Buckley FCC commissioner Mignon Clyburn thinks that FCC chairman Julius Genachowski\'s proposed reclassification of broadband under Title II of the Communications Act is the rig... - Update: FCC Chair won\'t testify at Comcast-NBC merger hearing
Washington Post By Cecilia Kang Kevin Martin, former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, won’t testify Monday at the House Judiciary Committee’s hearing on Comcast’s m... - Mobile Internet exploding, online ads about to take off, says analyst Mary Meeker
Washington Post By Cecilia Kang Internet research analyst Mary Meeker delivered a full plate of mobile and online advertising optimism Monday in the form of her 48-page Internet Trends slide presentat... - USDA Highlights Impact of Recent Recovery Act Broadband Loans and Grants
USDA Press Release Projects Designed to Improve the Quality of Rural Life Are Underway Across the Nation WASHINGTON, June 9, 2010 -- Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today highlighted the r... - Pew: Americans going online to engage locally
The Hill By Sara Jerome The latest poll from Pew\'s Internet and American Life Project provides stats on how Americans use the Internet to connect with their most immediate surroundings such as their ... - USDA Broadband Report Highlights Role of the Recovery Act in Bringing Connectivity to Rural America
The White House Blog By Tom Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture Today I released our first comprehensive report on USDA’s deployment of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding for rural bro... - HUD Constructs IT Transformation
InformationWeek Department of Housing and Urban Development CIO Jerry Williams discusses how IT is moving from overlooked to a central player in the agency\'s work.When Jerry Williams became CIO at th... - Strickling Touts BTOP at Broadband Policy Summit
BroadbandBreakfast.com By Lindsey SutphinWASHINGTON, June 11, 2010 —The second day of the Broadband Policy Summit VI sponsored by Pike & Fischer began with Lawrence Strickling’s mornin... - Wis. gov: Stimulus funds to help deliver broadband
Business Week Gov. Jim Doyle says federal stimulus money will help Wisconsin expand broadband telecommunications services to hundreds of schools and libraries.Doyle on Monday asked the Legislature\'s ... - Residents beg for broadband
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Dane County enclave says it deserves service By Rick BarrettAngry about not having high-speed Internet service, a group of rural Dane County residents have complained to the... - Using Social Networking as Legal Tool
Wall Street Journal By NATHAN KOPPEL Soon after the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig sank in April, Parker Waichman Alonso LLP turned to the Web in pursuit of law clients.The New York-based plaintiffs\'... - High-Speed Internet Rules Might Prove Costly
Business Week Giving the FCC the authority to impose net neutrality on broadband service could cost more than $62 billion if providers pull back, a study saysBy Olga Kharif(The first paragraph of this... - Innovation for America: Technology for Economic Growth and Empowering Americans
Office of Science and Technology Policy Blog Posted by Aneesh ChopraInnovation—the process of developing a new product, service, or process—is critical to ensuring that the next generation... - Techies to the rescue: At Digital Capital Week, an increasing focus on the social good
Washington Post By Steven Overly In any other city, co-locating government agencies with tech start-ups might seem like an unnatural fit. But if the District\'s chief technology officer, Bryan Sivak, ... - FCC and Congress take up broadband oversight
Washington Post A little sunburned and lot more rested, it’s good to be back. Thanks again to Jia Lynn Yang and Ariana Eunjung Cha for filling in while I was on break and speaking in New York at... - America\'s Broadband Dilemma
Can the FCC bring access to everyone in the country and achieve world-leading speeds at the same time?MIT Technology Review By Bobbie JohnsonFor millions of people around the world, broadband Internet... - Duke, city hit digital divide over new lines: City Council delays vote on university\'s request to install fiber optic lines
TMCnet DURHAM, Jun 23, 2010 (The Herald-Sun - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- Duke University\'s plan to spend $1 million to link its downtown office space more tightly with the ... - Timothy P. Carney: White House, Google violate lobbying pledge
Washington Examiner By: Timothy P. Carney Maybe a $150 billion company with 21,000 employees and 20 percent profit margins doesn\'t count as big business or a special interest if it talks about \"chan... - Lawmakers Spar Over FCC Internet Proposals
Wall Street Journal By AMY SCHATZ WASHINGTON—Lawmakers questioned Federal Communications Commission officials Thursday about their plans to regulate Internet access, and overhaul an $8 billion f... - Computers Make Strides in Recognizing Speech
New York Times By STEVE LOHR and JOHN MARKOFF “Hi, thanks for coming,” the medical assistant says, greeting a mother with her 5-year-old son. “Are you here for your child or yourself... - Broadband Edging Out Fiber For Internet Service
InformationWeek More than 70% of users are generally satisfied with broadband speed and availability according to a study, calling into question the market demand for fiber.By Esther SheinA recent sur... - Why Mobile Offers a Good Chance to Connect with Hispanics
eMarketerYoung mobile population eager to communicate and connectLike many Americans, Hispanics love their mobile phones and take them everywhere, more than non-Hispanic whites and, in many cases, mor... - Broadband Availability to Expand
New York Times By EDWARD WYATT WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is seeking to nearly double the wireless communications spectrum available for commercial use over the next 10 years, an effo... - Study: Libraries Help Job Seekers, Others Through Free Internet Access
BroadbandBreakfast.com By Mytheos HoltWASHINGTON, June 25, 2010 – Public libraries are key resources for job seekers, researchers and others thanks to their position in the community as an acces... - @ LA Broadband Summit: The opportunity and dilemma of mobile broadband
RCR Wireless By Matt Kapko LOS ANGELES — \"However you think about it, you\'re not thinking big enough or going fast enough,\" Kelly King, AT&T Mobility\'s SVP of consumer and mobility, sai... - White House backs FCC plan to add airwaves for mobile broadband
Washington Post White House backs FCC plan to add airwaves for mobile broadbandThe Obama administration announced Monday that it will double the amount of airwaves available for mobile broadband to me... - Latino Community Delivers Messages on Broadband to Capitol Hill
NextGenWeb A panel of experts gathered at the United States Capitol earlier this week to share their perspectives on the best policies to facilitate broadband access and adoption in the Latino communi... - Twitter Gets Into E-Commerce
New York Times By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER Last year, we wrote that Twitter was considering e-commerce as one of its revenue models. On Tuesday it unveiled its first foray into selling products.The company ... - Patients who e-mail with doctors see health improvements
USA Today By Amanda Gardner Patients with diabetes or hypertension or both who communicated with their doctors via e-mail got better care and better health outcomes, new California research contends.T... - FCC broadband plan will put US in \"second tier of countries\"
Ars Technica By Nate AndersonEven the oldest US Senators have gotten the message—the US wants fast broadband. And they have started to ask FCC Chair Julius Genachowski some hard questions about ... - Cleveland Neighborhoods Testing Ultra High-Speed Broadband in University Study
Government Technology Following NBA star LeBron James\' much-hyped, nationally televised disowning of his hometown in early July, the Cleveland Cavaliers commanded much of the Ohio city\'s attention. ... - No bank? No problem. Phone apps let you deposit checks
USA TODAY By Sandra Block Busy people who use their smartphones to check their bank balances, transfer funds and pay bills have a new reason to bypass banks and ATMs: They can use their phones to depo... - FCC to propose $400 million rural health care broadband fund
Washington Post By Cecilia Kang The Federal Communications Commission will announce at its open meeting Thursday a plan to create a $400 million program that would bring broadband connections to rural... - Spending Soars on Internet\'s Plumbing
Wall Street Journal By DON CLARK And BEN WORTHEN Behind the recovery in business spending is a surge in purchases of the computers that form the backbone of the Internet, as companies scramble to meet... - NTIA Gives Broadband Grant to Group for Deaf
PC World By Grant Gross The U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has awarded a US$15 million broadband grant to Communication Service for the Deaf, a nonprofit ... - Reports find technical divide among foreign- and U.S.-born Latinos
Washington Post By Tara Bahrampour Young Latinos born in the United States are far more likely to use text messages, social networking sites and other digital methods to communicate with their friends... - ALLIANCE FOR DIGITAL EQUALITY (ADE) CALLS ON FREE PRESS TO EXPLAIN TRUE MOTIVES
After release of 40-page guide documenting interest group’s plan to manipulate minority support for network neutrality, ADE wants answers ATLANTA, GEORGIA, Tuesday, July 27, 2010 – Today,... - More Faces of Women and Girls in STEM
Office of Science and Technology Policy Blog by Irnande Altema President Obama launched the “Educate to Innovate” campaign last November to improve the participation and performance of Ame... - House Saves Broadband Funding
BroadbandBreakfast.com WASHINGTON July 29, 2010- With a vote of 308- 114 the House has approved a supplemental appropriations, HR 4899, which eliminates previous amendments that would have rescinded b... - Qualcomm in India Broadband Venture
Wall Street Journal By R. JAI KRISHNA, KENAN MACHADO and ROMIT GUHA NEW DELHI—Qualcomm Inc. confirmed Friday it is forming a joint venture with India\'s Global Holding Corp. and Tulip Telecom Lt... - Rep. Dingell tells FCC to drop move for broadband regulations
Washington Post By Cecilia Kang Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.), former head of the Commerce & Energy Committee, said Wednesday that the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission should drop h... - Good morning tech
The Hill By Sara Jerome Good morning!Pelosi links broadband policies to Democrats\' manufacturing effortsHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said on Wednesday that federal efforts to expand broadban... - Qualcomm to name India broadband partners Friday
Reuters July 29 (Reuters) - Qualcomm Inc (QCOM.O) will announce local partners for selling a 26 percent stake in its India broadband unit on Friday, Kanwalinder Singh, president for Qualcomm\'s Indian... - Racism Enters Net Neutrality Contest :: Commentary Danny J. Bakewell, Sr. â NNPA Chairman
This space, I like to think, is usually filled with measured tones and civilized discussions. But today is different. Today I am outraged.Why? Because I just read Net Neutrality For the Win: How Enter... - A whiter Atlanta
Sunday Paper PART ONE OF A SERIES ON ATLANTA’S CHANGING POPULATION AND POLITICS By the year 2042, according to an analysis by the Brookings Institution, the United States will be “majority... - Ga. gets $13M to expand rural Internet coverage
Business Week Georgia residents in rural parts of the state will soon have access to high-speed Internet thanks to $13 million in federal grants.Gov. Sonny Perdue announced Wednesday that the state wi... - Sen. Nelson opposes broadband reclassification
The Hill By Sara Jerome Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) wrote to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski on Wednesday urging him not to move forward on an agency proceeding that c... - Washingtonâs passion for Google cools
Financial Times By Stephanie Kirchgaessner If it is true – as many believe – that the political elite in Washington have been engaged in a love affair with Google since Barack Obama’... - F.C.C. Chief Opposes Fees for Internet Priority
New York TimesBy EDWARD WYATT WASHINGTON — The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission said Thursday that he believed it was “unacceptable” for Internet service providers t... - Google, Verizon Propose Excluding Mobile Internet From Neutrality Rules
Bloomberg By Amy Thomson Verizon Communications Inc. and Google Inc. made a joint policy proposal for how Internet traffic should be handled, after participating in talks with U.S. officials on Web po... - AT&T\'s De La Vega: Verizon-Google Proposal A Positive Step
Wall Street Journal By ROGER CHENG NEW YORK—AT&T Inc. said a proposal from Google Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. was a good start in dealing with the regulation of broadband Internet l... - NTIA Broadband Stimulus Funding Cut By $302 Million
Multichannel News Funds Are Reallocated To Prevent Layoffs Of 160,000 TeachersBy John EggertonThe National Telecommunications & Information Administration will have $302 million less in broadband ... - Half Americans doubt govt broadband expansion, adoption grows but more slowly
Washington Post By Cecilia Kang Update 11:30 a.m.: Embargo lifted on report, data includedUpdate: 1:50 p.m. Note to readers: Thanks for your great feedback in comments section. Another outlet broke an... - Millions In Stimulus Hopes To Help Tennesseans Log On
NewsChannel5.com by Kim Gebbia CORNERSVILLE, Tenn. - It\'s known as the digital divide: the difference between those who can log on to the internet and those who can\'t. Tennessee is receiving million... - Support for broadband loses speed as nationwide growth slows
Washington Post By Cecilia Kang More than half of Americans generally disagree with federal government efforts to expand broadband connections around the nation, saying those projects are not importan... - Web Plan Is Dividing Companies
New York Times By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER and BRIAN STELTER In an emerging battle over regulating Internet access, companies are taking sides.Facebook, one of the companies that has flourished on the open ... - Report: African-American Adoption of Broadband Surges
PC Magazine By Mark HachmanAlthough the percentage of Americans using broadband at home increased just slightly from last year, the number of African-Americans reporting access to broadband at h... - The FCC and the bandwidth wars
Washington Post By Steven Pearlstein As a general rule, whenever you hear special-interest groups using near-hysterical language to warn that some proposal will destroy jobs, snuff out innovation and ... - Why The White House Is Passing On The Latest Net Neutrality Debate
TIME (blog) By Michael Scherer President Obama ran for president as a vocal supporter of \"net neutrality,\" the principle that Internet providers should deliver all varieties of online content at equ... - Triumph Fades on Racial Gap in City Schools
New York Times By SHARON OTTERMAN and ROBERT GEBELOFF Two years ago, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and his schools chancellor, Joel I. Klein, testified before Congress about the city’s impressive p... - Bill seeks to make electronics accessible to blind, deaf
Washington Post By Cecilia Kang Blind and deaf consumers, who have fought to make home phones and television more accessible, say they are being left behind on the Web and many mobile devices. Touch-b... - Qualcomm Seeks India OK for Investments
Wall Street Journal By R.JAI KRISHNA NEW DELHI -- Three companies--formed through the joint venture between U.S.-based chip maker Qualcomm Inc. and two Indian companies--have sought the clearance of t... - Intel to Acquire McAfee, Moving Into Online Security
New York Times By ASHLEE VANCE SAN FRANCISCO — Intel, the chip maker, has turned into Intel, the security specialist.Making one of most eye-catching moves in its 42-year history, Intel announced... - Broadband Access Up in Black Homes
New York Times By TEDDY WAYNE While broadband adoption for Americans finally slowed over all last year after double-digit growth each of the previous five years, with two-thirds now connected, usage a... - Study: Blacks and women talk and text more
USA TODAY By Peter Svensson NEW YORK — Blacks talk twice as much as whites on their cellphones, and women talk and text more than men, according to an analysis of wireless bills by Nielsen.The m... - Federal Grants to Aid Deployment of Broadband in Greater San Francisco Bay Area
TMCnet By Mini Swamy The Department of Commerce\'s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has granted funds amounting to $50.6 million to Motorola Solutions and the public s... - US grant helps aid a digital makeover
Boston Globe Mattapan center gets 15 new PCsBy Andrew RyanComputer users at the Mildred Avenue Community Center in Mattapan once slogged and sputtered through the Internet with the technological equiv... - Washington\'s Great Digital Divide
Huffington Post With President Obama and Members of Congress spending the next two and a half months reconnecting with anxious (and opinionated) voters, it\'s fair to ask why many of our elected repre... - U.S. Reviews Tech Spending
Wall Street Journal Billions of Dollars in Projects Could Be Revised Under Study of 26 Computer Jobs By AMY SCHATZObama administration officials are considering overhauling 26 troubled federal technol... - Biden touts stimulus investments in innovation
The Hill By Gautham Nagesh The White House released a report Tuesday touting the impact of stimulus investments in science and technology as part of its ongoing effort to frame the Recovery Act as a s... - FCC Chairman: More Folks Need To Make Broadband National Priority
Multichannel News Genachowski Uncertain That Federal, State Governments Hold A Uniform Opinion About Its ImportanceBy John EggertonFCC chairman Julius Genachowski said Tuesday that some people still a... - New FCC office targets Native Americans
The Hill By Gautham Nagesh A new office at the Federal Communications Commission will work to increase the adoption and availability of broadband and other communications technologies among Native Ame... - Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Joins World Wide Web Foundationâs Board of Directors
Knight Foundation Blog The World Wide Web Foundation (Web Foundation) today announced that it appointed former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to serve on its Board of Directors. Throughout the wo... - Grameen, Gates Foundation eye mobile technology for development
Washington Post By Cecilia Kang SEATTLE--The Grameen Foundation has lifted some of the world’s poorest through lending circles dealing in the smallest amounts of money. Now it is trying to...