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Panel urges FCC to cap rural phone subsidies: Panel urges FCC to cap rural phone subsidiesLet's end it altogether.Are we going to be paying this tax like the phone bill tax that paid for the Spanish-American War 100 years after the war ended?Terry ThomasAtlantaRE: Panel urges FCC to cap rural phone subsidiesIt should have been ended a long...; Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Network technology, Right Now IT, phone, rural area, rural phone subsidy, phone subsidy, cable, FCC; Discussion threads 2007-11-22
New taxes could run rural broadband: New taxes could run rural broadbandWhy should I pay twice for having VOIPWouldn't that double tax most people that have VOIP service. I don't mind paying my share, but since to have VOIP service I must also have a broadbannd connection I get hit twice. Not really fair,...; Tags: Network technology, Taxes, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Broadband Internet, broadband, cable, rural broadband, USF, phone, tax, rural area, subsidy; Discussion threads 2005-11-17
New tax for broadband customers?: New tax for broadband customers?Waiter...Check Please!Who's being left out?My parents, living in rural Pennsylvania, where the dairy cows outnumber the residents, had both DSL and cable broadband available to them a full year before I had cable broadband available to me in a suburb of a 100K person city. ...; Tags: Taxes, Network technology, Broadband Internet, Free trade, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, taxpayer, Big Business, broadband, tax, DSL, cable, rural area, phone, government, Verizon Communications Inc.; Discussion threads 2005-07-01
Broadband users, watch your wallets: Broadband users, watch your walletsWRONG city boy!Assuming most rural people can better afford anything is like country bumpkins assuming all city folk are rich. It just ain't so. The majority of working rural people live on less the what the "poverty" level is in the city.It COSTS more...; Tags: Network technology, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Broadband Internet, INTERNET, Telecom & Utilities, Real Culprit, broadband, rural area, little town, city dweller, phone; Discussion threads 2004-04-27
A Procurement Case Study: Solemates Footcare Service: Solemates is not a medical service, but a common sense approach to basic footcare. It is particularly important for older people who may experience problems with their feet if they have poor circulation, take less exercise, or are unable to care for their feet in the ordinary way: they may...; Tags: Health Care, Rural Area, Procurement, Service, Solemates, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Marketing; Case studies

Creating a Rural Renaissance: Despite the recent years of modernization and urbanization, large areas of China are still occupied by farming communities. The rapid development experienced by the cities needs to be balanced by development in rural areas. The farming community recognizes that in order to keep pace with modernization in urban areas and...; Tags: Information Technology, Rural Area, Intel Corp., Strategy, Management; Case studies

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Energy Independence Day...not yet, but it's a popular idea: Click on any image to see the whole picture. These are just three of the images from our local Fourth of July Parade today. We happen to live in a state which does not produce much...; Tags: Subsidy, Denmark, Natural Gas, Taxes, Free Trade, Telecom & Utilities, Financial Planning, Finance, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-07-04
Say it ain't so AVG, say it ain't so: AVG LinkScanner = Badware?: The Register covered a very interesting story about AVG. Apparently AVG is spamming the Internet with traffic that looks to be coming from Internet Explorer. AVG software pre-crawls search results to try to protect users, but uses a user agent that makes the software appear to be Internet Explorer. This pre-crawling is flooding websites with...; Tags: Webmaster, Traffic, Malware, Register, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security, Scanners, Internet, Viruses And Worms, Hardware, Peripherals, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-07-03
GreedMax (exe): GreedMax is like Greed but it adjusts its size to your display to cram in as many tiles as it can so, the bigger your display, the more territory you fight for -- hence the name GreedMax. It is still a single-player board game in which you capture as many...; Tags: Board, Tile, Julian Bury, GreedMax, Corporate Governance, Games, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Personal Technology; Software downloads 2008-07-03
Seven Tech ways to make America better this July 4: Something about getting a new neck earlier this spring made me start thinking about how to change my life to make America a better place. Here a few that you can try to make the country better over the Fourth of July weekend: 1.) Turn off your...; Tags: Phone, PC, Cell Phone, Computer, Productivity, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Mitch Ratcliffe; Blog posts 2008-07-02
Logitech Pure-Fi Mobile: Photo gallery:Logitech Pure-Fi MobileIf there's one thing Logitech does right, it's progress. The accessories company has been churning out iPod speakers for years, and its experience in this area shows in each new product. Rather than resting on its laurels, Logitech chugs forward with tweaks and improvements. Such is the...; Tags: Dead Center, backside, mobile, Logitech, speaker, Pure-Fi Mobile, Logitech Pure-Fi Mobile; Product reviews 2008-07-02
What is the best method for picking up an iPhone 3G on July 11th?: What is the best method for picking up an iPhone 3G on July 11th?Going EarlyI have a pretty decent sized AT&T Wireless store a quick walk down the street from my place. I'm guessing since it isn't in the busier parts of town it won't have a ton of traffic...; Tags: Cellular phones, WIRELESS, 3G, Apple iPhone, iPhone 3G; Discussion threads 2008-07-02
Five realities of Google or any other Workplace Wonderland: Five realities of Google or any other Workplace WonderlandThe best will float to the top?In any sizable company there are people that aren't pushing boundaries and so will be left somewhat self-stagnating. That's inherent in 9-5 working - some people ultimately turn up to collect their pay cheque.Plus you get...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Google Inc., Workplace Wonderland, workplace, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-07-02
New Web calculators from APC help you get a grip on the green impact of certain design and technology choices: What tradeoffs do you have to make to achieve certain energy efficiency goals in your data center? How will adding that extra rack, for example, skew your electricity usage? Power management company APC aka the big UPS vendor figures that anyone who can help tell you that...; Tags: Web, Energy Efficiency, American Power Conversion Corp., Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-07-02
Microsoft Hyper-V and Spin Marketing - Symantec's take: Microsoft's announcement of Hyper-V, as with other Microsoft announcement, brings out the spin-miesters in the marketing departments at Microsoft's partners and competitors alike. Over the past few days I've been posting a summary of some of the converstions I've been having about Hyper-V. This time, I spoke with Sean Derrington...; Tags: Symantec Corp., Marketing, VERITAS Software Corp., Environment, Citrix Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Virtual Machine, Storage, Security, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-07-02
Powerset's smarts are Microsoft's gain: Larry Dignan pours lukewarm water on Microsoft's acquisition of Powerset. Talking about Google's near monopoly in the search market, Larry says: Microsoft can reinvent search, but it's still running up a natural Google monopoly. The analogy here is Windows: Microsoft didn't have the best operating system on the planet....; Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Powerset, Wiki, Document Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Speech Recognition, Channel Management, Search, Enterprise Software, Online Communications, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Investment, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-07-01
Oracle's BEA strategy: reassuring the market: Earlier today, Oracle outlined its strategy regarding the recently acquired BEA portfolio. If I hadn't known it was supposed to be a customer and partner webinar, I'd have thought we were listening to a more detailed re-run of the latest earnings call with Charles Philips talking...; Tags: BEA Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., Sales Strategy, Public Relations, Strategy, Sales, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Management, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-07-01
Autonomy CEO: Web 2.0 'under all the hype, there is something there...': Autonomy CEO: Web 2.0 'under all the hype, there is something there...'knowledge-at-point-of-careGreat review of Mike Lynch's article.ISABEL, a clinical diagnosis reminder system based on Autonomy is a sign of things to come in the vast and underexplored area of point-of-care knowledge and expertise management in healthcare; the current generation of...; Tags: Autonomy Corp. plc, Web 2.0, Web; Discussion threads 2008-07-01
Garmin Nuvi 880: Ever since the Garmin Nuvi 880 was announced at CES 2008, we've been excited to get out hands on this portable navigation system. Given the good track record of the other Nuvi series devices, we expected more of the same, solid feature list and good performance. However, we were most...; Tags: Keyboards, Garmin Nuvi, Garmin Nuvi 880, speech recognition, Garmin Ltd.; Product reviews 2008-06-30
Big Brother Getting Bigger Part 1: USA: Eek, from Slashdot today: The FBI has confirmed to Popular Mechanics that it's not only adding palm prints to its criminal records, but preparing to balloon its repository of photos, which an agency official says 'could be the basis for our facial recognition.' It's all part of a new...; Tags: FBI, Privacy, Washington Post Co., Slashdot, Government, Federal Government, Security, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-06-30