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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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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
A report from WebSiteOptimization.com shows that websites have ballooned in size over the past few years. Between 2003 and 2008 the average web page size has grown from 93.1 kilobytes to 312 kilobytes. For people with decent broadband connections 312 kilobytes is drop in the bucket, but for those with ...
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Sunday, April 27th, 2008
Verizon and Comcast are rolling out the next generation of high-speed technology to limited markets. The new connections are going to deliver about 25 times the rate of the average broadband connections that are most widely available today. Verizon's FiOS has been available to folks in a number of states ...
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Sunday, April 27th, 2008
This is a bit off-topic for a blog about technology, but I posted yesterday about micro-credit financing helping people in Bangladesh setup phone business and want to follow-up with something I've found. Micro-credit has been touted as a great capitalist solution to poverty. A small loan and hard work should ...
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Saturday, April 26th, 2008
Here is a good video about using microcredit to provide a poor remote village with a cell phone. The video is produced by the International Telecommunication Union, a special agency of the United Nations. Grameen Bank is an organization that provides micro-credit loans to people throughout the world, and provided ...
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Saturday, April 26th, 2008
So what do kids do the on the Internet?
Warren Buckleitner, the editor of Children's Technology Review magazine, studied children in 10 different households who had access to high-speed Internet. Buckleitner put video cameras in the homes and had parents record how the kids used the Internet. He found that the ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
If technology is growing and changing at exponential rates how do people keep up with all the skills? Kids are great at intuitively picking these computer skills, its the adults that need the education.
This opinion piece at the Financial Times argues that continuing adult education is becoming so much more ...
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