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Archive for March, 2006

Blacks Turn to Internet Highway, and Digital Divide Starts to Close

Friday, March 31st, 2006

By MICHEL MARRIOTT Published: March 31, 2006 New York Times

African-Americans are steadily gaining access to and ease with the Internet, signaling a remarkable closing of the “digital divide” that many experts had worried would be a crippling disadvantage in achieving success.

Civil rights leaders, educators and national policy makers warned for years that the Internet was bypassing blacks […]

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The National Summit for Community Wireless Networks

Thursday, March 30th, 2006

From March 31 to April 2, 2006, the Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network (CUWiN), Free Press, and Mid-Rivers Community Wireless Network will host the Second National Summit for Community Wireless Networks at Lindenwood University in St. Charles, MO.

The Summit is the largest gathering of community wireless networking developers, implementers and allies focused on building the alliance […]

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Bills would boost unlicensed Wi-Fi

Monday, March 27th, 2006

Wireless Internet service providers would be allowed to operate freely on new chunks of unused TV spectrum, according to two new bills in the U.S. Senate.

A pair of similar measures introduced Friday would give wireless device manufacturers the green light to develop products for unlicensed use on the broadband airwaves’ “white spaces”–that is, empty, unused […]

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Philly moves forward with wi-fi plan

Monday, March 27th, 2006

The city of Philadelphia detailed its plan to blanket the city with Wi-Fi after signing its final contract with EarthLink, which will build and operate the network on behalf of the city.

The city said Wednesday that pricing of the broadband service will be kept below $20 per month. Economically disadvantaged users will be charged $9.95 […]

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The Next Broadband Battleground

Monday, March 27th, 2006

Net neutrality in broadband networks has become a major public-policy debate. Every industry whose products or services can be digitized will be affected by the outcome, as tens of billions of dollars are at stake.

Net neutrality, also called network neutrality, has three components. First, users should have access to any content they choose while being […]

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Why the Web is Hitting a Wall

Monday, March 27th, 2006

U.S. Internet growth is stalling. And it’s not just the old or poor who are living offline

Business Week

March 20, 2006

These days, getting answers to most questions seems like a no-brainer. For everything from who won an Olympic speed skating race to when to plant tomatoes, most people turn to Google or one of its […]

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Metro Wi-Fi Network Coverage to Top 126,000 Square Miles by 2010, Says ABI Research

Friday, March 24th, 2006

According to a report published by ABI Research, municipal Wi-Fi networks covered only about 1,500 square miles worldwide (3885 square kilometers). Yet by 2010, that figure is expected to increase to 126,000 square miles (over 325,000 square km), an area slightly larger than Poland, or the U.S. state of New Mexico. The bulk of these […]

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Whose Internet is it anyway?

Friday, March 24th, 2006

The hot debate over “Net neutrality” has spilled beyond Internet chat rooms and into Congress. The concept that those who own the “pipes” can’t dictate what goes through them has made the Internet an engine for individual and economic growth. An Internet with gatekeepers threatens the Net’s creative soul.

A group of 70 organizations has […]

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Net Neutrality Explained

Friday, March 24th, 2006

Net neutrality refers to the practice of keeping a network (such as the Internet) open and non-prejudicial with regard to content. Net neutrality has been instantiated into law in many countries, including the United Kingdom, South Korea, and Japan.

In the United States, there are no laws that instantiate net neutrality as a telecommunications standard. Many […]

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Hop on My Bandwith

Thursday, March 16th, 2006

Hop on My Bandwith By Timothy Lee

Should we be worried about wireless “piggybacking?” Millions of homes now have wireless Internet networks, and many of them are not protected by passwords. “Piggybacking” occurs when someone — a next-door neighbor or a stranger parked across the street — finds an open network and logs on.

News reports tend to […]

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Better wireless networking radios emerging

Tuesday, March 7th, 2006

One of the limitations of community wireless has been that the Wi-Fi (802.11) devices which tend to comprise them are far from ideal. On one hand, they are very inexpensive and ubiquitous in the market, and there is a great deal of support and maturity in the software applications that drive them. On the other […]

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