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The domestic digital divide

The domestic digital divideCanada isn't as bad.....I'm a Canadian living in a rural area... my home has high speed cable.According to http://www.internetworldstats.com/am/ca.htmCanada is a world leader in broadband penetration. We have 85% broadband penetration, and yet we have more rural areas...I wonder, what is it that Canada is doing different...

Tags: Broadband Internet, Network technology, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, domestic digital divide, broadband, digital divide, Canadian Living

Discussion threads 2008-11-13

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News to know: Yahoo, Blackberry Storm, Black Friday leaks, Smartphones

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: Yahoo dips below $10; Icahn, board called out Larry Dignan: Verizon Wireless: Storm lands Nov. 21 Sean Portnoy: Best Buy...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, Yahoo! Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Smartphone, Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-11-14

The domestic digital divide

We've heard a lot recently about how poor our broadband penetration is in this country. It's true, in fact, that too great a percentage of our students simply don't have access to high-speed internet at home like their European and Asian counterparts. What we all too often overlook...

Tags: Broadband, Satellite, Hughes, Network Technology, Cable, Broadband Internet, Networking, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-11-13

Good news on the Dell netbook front

Just a quick update now that I have a minute to sit down tonight. I heard from my Dell rep this afternoon that, although it's not available on the Dell K-12 education pages, the Inspiron Mini 9 is available to all education customers in quantity. Here's...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Blogging, Notebooks, Internet, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Hey Dell...Wanna sell some Classmates?

Now that OLPC plans to distribute OLPC XOs in the States through OLPC America, I sent Agnes Kwan, Intel spokeswoman, an email asking if Intel planned to compete in this market with their Classmate PC. We had a chance to catch up today since I'm buried under 14 inches...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., OEM, Intel Corp., One Laptop Per Child Project, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-01-14

San Francisco CIO: Chris Vein - Transcript

Dan Farber: Chris thanks for joining me.Chris Vein: It's my pleasure. Dan Farber: How did you end up in this role as CIO of San Francisco? Did you have a background in being a CIO?Chris Vein: Very accidentally, is how I came into my role.Dan Farber: So you are the...

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Blog posts 2007-03-19

San Francisco CIO: Chris Vein - Transcript

Dan Farber: Chris thanks for joining me. Chris Vein: It's my pleasure. Dan Farber: How did you end up in this role as CIO of San Francisco? Did you have a background in being a CIO? Chris Vein: Very accidentally,...

Tags: CIO, City, County, Department, San Francisco, Difficulty, Government, Internet, Productivity, Wireless LANs, Network Technology, Strategy, Wireless, Networking, Management, ZDNet Editor

Blog posts 2007-03-19

Dems take Congress: The impact on IT policy

Now that the Democrats have control of both houses of Congress, how will Internet policies change at the federal level? News.coms Washington correspondents take a look at the the tech fall-out of the election. On a wealth of topics--Net neutrality, digital copyright, merger approval, data retention, Internet censorship--a Capitol...

Tags: Government technology, Congress, Net neutrality, U.S. Congress

Blog posts 2006-11-09

Teledesic launches first Net satellite

Teledesic launches first Net satelliteWavelength TransmissionsHello;I'm doing a project for my physics class and I want illustrate why some celluar phones conducts more heat than others. If you could send me the frictional information obit, altitude, and transmission of their wavelength it would a plus for my presentation.Yours truly;Michael E....

Tags: Network technology, Free trade, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Broadband Internet, Wi-Fi, SWANsat Subscribers, satellite, tariff, Teledesic LLC

Discussion threads 2006-07-16

Make open source compatible with content

Make open source compatible with contentWhere did you get this load of rubbish?"Already, U.S. content producers are losing their overseas markets, one by one, to local competitors."Back that up with some proof! The last numbers I've seen says that entertainment "content" is still the number one US export.Who cares?[i]It's...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Nothing, digital-rights management, open source

Discussion threads 2005-09-19

Can open source close the digital divide?

Can open source close the digital divide?Free newspapers available on every corner..And yet only the tiny minority see any value in them, much like open source software.open or free???I'm not so sure that the two are wed together. I think that we all would benefit from open source...

Tags: open source, digital divide, open source close, software, open-source software

Discussion threads 2005-06-27