Archive for May, 2008
Sunday, May 18th, 2008
The UN's Commission on Science and Technology for Development will be looking at the progress on goals later this month set forth by the World Summit on the Information Society, WSIS, which was held in 2003 and 2004. The goal of the WSIS is to outline ways to promote an ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Earthlink has announced that they will turn off the municipal WiFi in Philadelphia in June. The system never ended up being as popular as Earthlink needed it to be. They wanted 100,000 customers, they have a little more than 5000. Earthlink is also planning on shuttering, shelving or selling all ...
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
I spoke with Chicago Public Library's marketing director, Ruth Lednicer, about what they are doing for city residents. I asked her about the Cyber Explorer program, which pays college students to teach library patrons how to use the Internet, and about other ways the library is working on fulfilling ...
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Sunday, May 11th, 2008
Oxford professor and neuroscientist, Susan Greenfield, said children's brains are rotting from too much exposure to technology. In an interview for The Sunday Times Life & Style section about her life and work, Greenfield discusses her theory about the effect of video games and Internet Media exposure on the brain ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
Because broadband isn't expensive enough already I suppose.
Last month I wrote about a West Coast ISP that began offering high-speed Internet plans with download limits. According to a piece at Broadband Reports, Comcast is considering putting a 250GB download limit on customers and charging fees for exceeding the limit.
Comcast has ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
The Universal Service Fund is that extra tax you see at the end of your phone bill. It was originally established to fund the expansion of infrastructure into poor and rural areas. The FCC is in charge of the fund, but because of some weird rules in how the money ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
A recent report from the Pew Internet and American Life project reveals that teens are writing more. Through 700 phone surveys and interviews with parents and teens aged 12 to 17, researchers discovered that all teens were writing for school and a vast majority enjoyed writing. Parents agreed that their ...
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Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
People 65 years and older are one of the fastest growing online demographics in the U.S. as of a few years ago, and in the U.K. around 16 percent of over-65s are on the Internet.
Microsoft recently announced a new project to offer a 'senior PCs' to the older crowd in ...
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
A report released May 1 by the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation shows the U.S. is trailing most other advanced nations in providing high-speed Internet to its people. We've known for a while that the U.S. is falling behind, but the report makes the claim that bad policy is only ...
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