Archive for April, 2008
Monday, April 14th, 2008
A recent paper and survey from researchers at Cornell and the University of Toronto puts some interesting data on the digital divide issue. Through a survey of more than 18,000 Americans, the researchers found that people on the lower end of the income spectrum spend more time on the Internet. ...
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
The Wall Street Journal has a good article up about next generation high-speed Internet services in the United States. Comcast recently started upgrading their infrastructure with a new version of cable internet technology called DOCSIS 3, which is now being offered to Minnesotians. The upgrade will let Comcast offer download ...
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
In the past few months high-speed Internet service providers have begun to offer faster plans that charge by the gigabyte. The plans give you a preset limit of how much data you can download every month, and if you go over, you get hit with fees.
There is one service provider ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Microsoft is expanding partnerships throughout Latin America and helping to establish programs to provide technology education.The partnerships are focused on providing technology education to at-risk youth as well as people with disabilities.
Microsoft will be partnering with or expanding partnerships in Brazil, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico, Peru and international Latin American ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
A few years ago, former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair proclaimed that there would be "universal internet access for all who want it." This goal was set for 2005. According to this recent article on Silicon.com, around 35 percent of homes in the UK do not have access to Internet, ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
A North Carolina school district partnered with Qualcomm's Wireless Reach Initiative and Arlington, Virg., based Digital Millennial Consulting to provide some 9th graders smart-phones with internet access in a pilot program. The K-Nect Program, as it's called, is an attempt to address three issues at once: Getting at risk kids ...
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
Cnet has an post up about the city of Miami's efforts to provide technology education to residents and small business owners. Elevate Miami is a city-wide program that provides classes and computer access centers for residents. The city works with technology partners like Microsoft Corp. to recycle old PCs, and ...
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
One the best resources for information on computer and Internet use in the United States is the Pew Internet and American Life Project. They do studies and research on who uses the Internet, how they use the Internet, who doesn't use the Internet and much more.
Some government run sites that ...
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
The era of global communication is upon us, and the Internet is changing the way people work, find information about their world and talk to friends and family. But many people are left behind because they can't afford a computer, have no Internet access where they live, or are just ...
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