Monday, June 2nd, 2008
The Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) Council, a coalition of 160 Internet companies, met on capitol hill two weeks ago to discuss net neutrality.
The meeting hosted input from BitTorrent and other large network operators. Members of the coalition came down against any kind of regulation of their networks.
According to an article on FreePress.net, members are saying that BitTorrent and ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
The Chicago Tribune published an article this weekend about the impact that the Internet can have on the lives of people who are trying to make ends meet. The article mentions the WiMax rollout in Chicago, and the Lt. Governor of Illinois' recently introduced ordinance to provide 15,000 low-cost laptops ...
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Saturday, May 24th, 2008
A report was released this week by the Center for Rural Pennsylvania about the state broadband access in Pennsylvania's less populated areas. With data collected in 2005 and 2006, the project looks at how healthcare, local government, education and business in rural Pennsylvania are using high-speed Internet.
Some quotes from the ...
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Sunday, May 18th, 2008
A recent survey from marketing firm Parks Associates has found that around one in every five American house-holds have never used email or any other Internet service. So potentially one in five Americans have never used email.
The survey interviewed heads-of-households and found that of those that had never used email, ...
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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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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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Monday, April 21st, 2008
The San Francisco Chronicle has an interesting op-ed up on their website about a Digital New Deal. With a recession and a lot of young people coming of age having used the Internet for most of their lives, the author, Helen De Michiel, argues that the government should start an ...
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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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