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Cuba's High-Speed Internet Mystery

AP | ANDREA RODRIGUEZ | Posted 05.21.2012

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HAVANA -- It was all sunshine, smiles and celebratory speeches as officials marked the arrival of an undersea fiber-optic cable they promised would en...

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Google Network Shows Hollywood Trap: Between Fiddlers and Franklin

Art Brodsky | Posted 05.04.2012

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The entertainment industry should no longer fear technological change. It should no longer cling to a precarious balance on the roof of an industrial structure constructed long ago. It's time to look on technology as an opportunity, and to conquer its fear of the unknown.

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Digital Divide in Mississippi Splits Along Racial Lines, Report Finds

HuffingtonPost.com | Gerry Smith | Posted 01.31.2012

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African Americans in Mississippi often have fewer options for high-speed Internet and spend a higher proportion of their incomes on the Internet than ...

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Tackling Digital Literacy and Unemployment: California's Social Gaming Approach

Christina Gagnier | Posted 02.06.2012

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There is a group of people who are challenged by a fundamental problem: lack of access to the Internet in their homes, coupled with the inability to engage in our information economy since they lack basic digital literacy skills.

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High Speed Internet To Expand Across The Globe

AP | Posted 12.25.2011

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GENEVA -- A United Nations panel has given governments a target of connecting half the world's poor citizens to broadband Internet by 2015. The U.N.'...

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U.S. Injects More Money Into High-Speed Internet Plan

Posted 10.22.2011

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MICHAEL FELBERBAUM, AP/THE HUFFINGTON POST (RICHMOND, Va.) -- Telecommunications companies in 16 states will share more than $103 million in federal f...

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U.K. Unveils Ambitious High-Speed Internet Plan

The Guardian | Juliette Garside | Posted 10.15.2011

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Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt will fire the starting gun on the race to turn Britain's internet "not spots" into hot spots this week by allocating a ...

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Meet The First People Getting Google's Ultra High-Speed Internet

Palo Alto Patch | Posted 09.17.2011

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Google has chosen the Stanford campus to be the pilot site for its new ultra high-speed internet, Google Fiber. “Google plans to offer internet ...

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Broadband Usage Growing Even As Gaps Persist

AP | JOELLE TESSLER | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. still faces a significant gap in residential broadband use that breaks down along incomes, education levels and other soci...

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Silverton: Qwest Fiber-Optic Link Never Completed Despite Taxpayer Funding

Silverton Standard | Mark Esper | Posted 05.25.2011

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San Juan County and the Town of Silverton filed a formal complaint Wednesday, June 30, with the Colorado Public Utilities Commission against Qwest Com...

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India and the US Working on a National Broadband Plan

Ramon Nuez | Posted 05.25.2011

Broadband is just not simply high-speed Internet access -- it is an investment in the communications infrastructure. An infrastructure that connects...

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Vast FCC Plan Would Establish High-Speed Internet As Nation's Dominant Communications Network

New York Times | Brian Stelter and Jenna Wortham | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Federal Communications Commission is proposing an ambitious 10-year plan that will reimagine the nation's media and technology priorities by estab...

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US Home Broadband Figures Show 40 Percent Lack High-Speed Internet: STUDY

AP | JOELLE TESSLER | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Roughly 40 percent of Americans do not have high-speed Internet access at home, according to new Commerce Department figures that u...

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Biden Unveils Federal Broadband Stimulus Projects

AP | ERRIN HAINES | Posted 05.25.2011

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DAWSONVILLE, Ga. — Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday announced the first $182 million in federal stimulus money for 18 projects to expand hig...

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Rural Broadband Internet Access To Expand

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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DENVER - About 97 percent of Colorado households have some high-speed Internet service available without an extraordinary commitment of resources, but...

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Under Stimulated: Building Trains and Other Stuff We Need Rather Than What Wall Street Dictates

Joel Epstein | Posted 05.25.2011

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I'm making real investment in fast trains that run where people live and want to go my wish for the New Year.

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Illinois Falls To 14th In Internet Connection Speed

Chicago Tribune | Posted 05.25.2011

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Illinois ranks 14th in the latest annual ranking of Internet connection speeds in the United States, two spots lower than a year ago....

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