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In my post the week before last about the Why Broadband Matters Senate Commerce Committee hearing I forgot to mention the coolest part: they used videoconferencing technology to allow the gentleman from Alaska to provide his testimony. At first when...
On Friday night I had one of most fun (and frustrating) experiences using broadband in my life. It's that time of year again when a group of long-time friends get together for the annual male bonding ritual known as fantasy...
Wow - If ever there was a story about the impact of broadband to warm your heart, this is it. It's a tale of how a soldier stationed overseas was able to be with his wife and watch his first...
I read a tremendous article found in Jim Baller's regular email newsletter earlier this week that highlights a number of interesting and important points. It details an initiative where 150 teachers are going to be finding employment in Wyoming teaching...
I came across a tremendously uplifting article by way of my friends over at the Blandin on Broadband blog about the use of broadband in education. This article details the recent happenings of the fifth annual Megaconference Jr., an event...
On Wednesday I had the tremendous opportunity to sit down with Gary Bachula of Internet2 to engage for the first time with someone from that organization. In all candor, going into that meeting I only had vague impressions of what...
With their leadership in the deployment of fiber to the home, I suppose it shouldn’t surprise anyone that two of the most innovative broadband-connected devices on display come from South Korea. The first is called the Virtual Studio from Darim....
I was invited by Marc Strassman to join him in his first attempt at a 4-person videocall through SightSpeed, along with noted columnist James Carlini and Jonathan Rintels, executive director of the Center for Creative Voices in Media. Here's the...
Don’t know how I missed this: earlier this month Verizon allowed regarded tech columnist Om Malik to send questions to a Verizon employee named Rich who’s been wired for 100Mbps access to his home to discuss how it’s changed his...
Last month I attended a brown bag luncheon about the impact of broadband on people with disabilities and the elderly that was a part of the Alliance for Public Technology's "Broadband Changed My Life" campaign. Today I wanted to point...
UTOPIA's network has held court to a number of companies interested in testing applications that can make use of the capacious bandwidth provided by fiber. Unfortunately they're under the strictest of NDAs with most all of them, preventing them from discussing any partner, save one. That one is TVBLOB, an Italian company that may be on the verge of launching a true Killer App for fiber.
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