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The Olympic flame arrived in Beijing Tuesday, August 5. The last torchbearer lit the fire cauldron at the historic Temple of Heaven in Beijing, marking the beginning of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing (NBC Olympics, NY Times Event Tracker, Sound Slides, Gigapixel images and Olympic Theme, MP-3).
The Opening Ceremony of the [...]
I’mma do the things that I wanna do
I ain’t got a thing to prove to you
I’ll eat my candy with the pork and beans
Excuse my manners if I make a scene
- Weezer: Pork and Beans
Google’s Public Policy Blog says a trial experiment in Ottawa, Canada is trying out the consumer-owned model for fiber on a [...]
iProvo is the name of the Fiber to the Home service owned and operated by the city of Provo, Utah. It is the largest municipally-owned Fiber to the Home network in the United States. The iProvo RFP [pdf], was issued on April 18, 2007.
Meanwhile, the Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency (UTOPIA), a consortium of [...]
San Francisco’s unfolding cliffhanger, with a city network administrator holding the city’s network hostage, sound’s like a “B” movie plot –- but it represents the real threat that IT departments face, says Network World.
Infoworld may have the inside scoop:
Rather than a case of a rogue administrator attempting to cause damage to the network [...]
Alaska Communications Systems (ACS) has begun cable-laying operations to link Anchorage with Florence, Ore., providing an eight-fold boost to the bandwidth, according to the company. The project, dubbed AKORN, short for Alaska Oregon Network (10K), is meant to meet the demand for bandwidth by large-capacity users including government, the military, banks and corporations.
The system [...]
AT&T’s deployment of U-Verse services in Tennessee, which commenced this week, could provide an unusual showcase of three-way competition in the country’s most active hotbed for municipal fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP), says Telephony Magazine.
This week AT&T pledged to spend $400 million rolling out U-Verse services to 56 Tennessee towns over the next two years. The announcement [...]
Forbes Magazine ranks The World’s 10 Most Wired Countries. Rankings are based on a combination of hard data from organizations like the International Telecommunications Union and responses to an Executive Opinion Survey by the World Economic Forum, on topics such as business adoption of technology and laws relating to ICT. About 11,000 business executives in [...]
FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein (wikipedia) and several high-profile technology executives and industry advocates on Tuesday launched an initiative to make broadband access a national priority in the U.S.
At the Personal Democracy Forum in New York, Adelstein and others unveiled InternetforEveryone.org, a national initiative of public interest, civic and industry groups.
It seeks to foster a [...]
Verizon Communications is bringing more Fios broadband and TV service to big cities, says C/Net and Broadband Reports. “We will start this year as soon as we receive the approval of the New York Public Service Commission, which we expect will be next month,” said Verizon’s COO Denny Strigl during a keynote speech at [...]
When homes get 50-100 Mbps, a slew of high-definition content, better-quality video-sharing sites and even 3-D video will be enabled. Call it Broadband 2.0, says Wired.
Experts say this increased bandwidth — when it becomes widely available — will have a profound effect on everything from our social interactions on the web to the way we [...]
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