Posted Sep 01, 2010
The Hill By Gautham Nagesh A new office at the Federal Communications Commission will work to increase the adoption and availability of broadband and other communications technologies among Native American communities.FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski annou...
Posted Aug 25, 2010
Multichannel News Genachowski Uncertain That Federal, State Governments Hold A Uniform Opinion About Its ImportanceBy John EggertonFCC chairman Julius Genachowski said Tuesday that some people still aren't treating broadband as a national priority, and p...
Posted Aug 25, 2010
The Hill By Gautham Nagesh The White House released a report Tuesday touting the impact of stimulus investments in science and technology as part of its ongoing effort to frame the Recovery Act as a success ahead of the midterm elections.With the unemploy...
Posted Aug 24, 2010
Wall Street Journal Billions of Dollars in Projects Could Be Revised Under Study of 26 Computer Jobs By AMY SCHATZObama administration officials are considering overhauling 26 troubled federal technology projects valued at as much as $30 billion as part o...
Posted Aug 24, 2010
Huffington Post With President Obama and Members of Congress spending the next two and a half months reconnecting with anxious (and opinionated) voters, it's fair to ask why many of our elected representatives have been slow to fully embrace the world's...
Posted Aug 24, 2010
Boston Globe Mattapan center gets 15 new PCsBy Andrew RyanComputer users at the Mildred Avenue Community Center in Mattapan once slogged and sputtered through the Internet with the technological equivalent of a horse and buggy mired on a muddy road. The b...
Posted Aug 24, 2010
TMCnet By Mini Swamy The Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has granted funds amounting to $50.6 million to Motorola Solutions and the public safety agencies within the Greater San Francisco Bay Are...
Posted Aug 24, 2010
USA TODAY By Peter Svensson NEW YORK — Blacks talk twice as much as whites on their cellphones, and women talk and text more than men, according to an analysis of wireless bills by Nielsen.The media-tracking firm went through the phone bills of 60,0...
Posted Aug 23, 2010
New York Times By TEDDY WAYNE While broadband adoption for Americans finally slowed over all last year after double-digit growth each of the previous five years, with two-thirds now connected, usage among African-Americans jumped 22 percent this year over...
Posted Aug 19, 2010
New York Times By ASHLEE VANCE SAN FRANCISCO — Intel, the chip maker, has turned into Intel, the security specialist.Making one of most eye-catching moves in its 42-year history, Intel announced Thursday that it planned to acquire McAfee for $7.68 b...
