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• in Technology
  Starbucks' Free WiFi May Bring the End of Pay-to-Surf
  In case you haven't heard, Starbucks turned on free, one-click WiFi for all customers today. This is a big deal.
  by alexpriest / on Jul 2, 2010
• in IT
  Broadband for All in Finland But Not United States
  Impediments persist for wider public computer centers with broadband access in the U.S.
  by knowlengr / on Nov 13, 2009

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “digital divide”

 

• Computer Savvy, Would You Contest?

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 568
  The complete concept of computer literacy may vary from company to company; usually the definition is cisco certification exams blog dependent upon the related technology used by the company. What cannot be argued may be the need for individuals to have skills that are connected with computers to be able to ...
  2 days ago

• The end justifies the definition: The manifold outlooks on the digital divide and their practical usefulness for policy-making

  
  LIRNEasia — Authority: 413
  In his paper , author Martin Hilbert presents a conceptual framework to classify the different definitions of the digital divide by using the theory on diffusion of innovation. The author equates the diffusion of ICT to the diffusion of Innovation which is the process by which an innovation is communicated over time ...
  5 days ago

• New York Public Library offers help with e-readers

  
  Paternal Prose — Authority: 147
  The library’s new “eBook Central” is an effort to assist the technologically illiterate. a new website — nypl.org/ebookcentral — offers step-by-step instructions on how to download books and other media from the NYPL’s digital shelves. and from Jan. 4-13, reference librarians will be available at the ...
  1 week ago

• FCC’s Low-Income Phone Reform Needs to Connect and Tie Eligibility to People, Not Housing

  
  Digital Beat — Authority: 97
  The Federal Communications Commission is poised to reform and modernize the Lifeline phone program that was created to help low-income household afford phone service. The reform and modernization is expected to move the program beyond traditional landline service to better accommodate wireless phone service and to ...
  1 week ago

• New innovation case on THINK!: NT Mojos

  
  THINK! The Innovation Knowledge Foundation — Authority: 410
  NT Mojos is an innovative, pilot mobile journalism project that is helping close the gap in the Northern Territory by giving Indigenous communities a chance to tell their stories in their own way. Funded by the  Australian Government , NT Mojos seeks to give Indigenous people from remote Northern Territory ...
  2 weeks ago

• Lifeline and Link Up Programs for the 21st Century

  
  Digital Beat — Authority: 97
  After years of consideration, the Federal Communications Commission is going to update its Lifeline and Link Up programs for the 21st century. Chairman Julius Genachowski, in a speech January 9, announced his plan to significantly reform the program to include broadband-focused elements and to streamline the legacy ...
  2 weeks ago

• ViaSat’s Exede satellite internet: Will it help close the digital divide?

  
  Extremetech — Authority: 729
  It’s great to speculate about the possibilities for gigabit internet , but for millions of Americans it is still not possible to get reasonable quality broadband service. Starting today, ViaSat is changing that. Its new Exede internet service — running on a brand-new, high-capacity Ka band satellite, ViaSat-1 — ...
  2 weeks ago

• Google: Free Wi-Fi in India to Access Social Networks

  
  THINK! The Innovation Knowledge Foundation — Authority: 410
  Google is offering users in India free Wi-Fi in an effort to increase usage of Google’s social network, Google+ , as well as YouTube. The service, provided by O-Zone Networks, will run for an initial three months, will allow unlimited usage of Google+ and 10 minutes of free access to YouTube per week, but any ...
  2 weeks ago

• Holidays Over – Back to Work (Updated)

  
  Digital Beat — Authority: 97
  The holidays must be over, cause there certainly was a lot going on in telecommunications policy this week.
  2 weeks ago

• How to get email without a computer

  
  PC Pro blog — Authority: 411
  Here in Vegas, CES is overflowing with computing embedded in devices of every kind — cars, home appliances, booth girls (I’m assuming, anyway) — but one stand is touting a way to cut the computer out of your life, while still receiving email. The Presto Printing Mailbox is the antithesis of Martha Lane Fox’s ...
  2 weeks ago

• Apple’s move into textbook business will be a game changer

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 127
  But I think this could be massively significant.     All wags are waxing on about Apple launching into the education books business or the textbook business on 19 January at an event in the Guggenheim in New York. It is being tabled as a minor event because it’s about content rather than any shiny new device. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Banda larga, arrivano le nuove regole

  
  Pselion Web Agency Blog — Authority: 98
  Il numero di accessi ad Internet in banda larga in Italia è in diminuzione: è quanto riporta l’ultimo rapporto trimestrale dellAutorità per le garanzie nelle comunicazioni ( Agcom ) .  In aumento, invece, il traffico dati effettuato tramite smartphone e tablet. Proprio in questi giorni lAgcom ha stabilito ...
  3 weeks ago

• Walking in the Shoes of Poor Kids Using Broadband

  
  Fighting the Next Good Fight — Authority: 94
  Just before the holidays, a columnist (Gene Marks) for Forbes Magazine wrote a piece “ If I Was a Poor Black Kid .” It presents how he would handle life and deal with technology if, instead of being a middle class, middle aged white guy from the suburbs, he were walking in a poor kid’s shoes. The resulting ...
  3 weeks ago

• We need better infrastructure to bridge urban digital divide

  
  GigaOM — Authority: 820
  The broadband stimulus program committed nearly $500 million to narrow the digital divide through broadband adoption campaigns and building computing centers in low-income areas. After distributing much of this money in 2011, these investments should start bearing fruit. But will they? Their success faces two ...
  3 weeks ago

• MUSE FLASH! Books, what form?

  
  Rasco From RIF — Authority: 102
  Check out this new article For Reading and Learning, Kids Prefer E-Books to Print Books  by Jeremy Greenfield, Editorial Director,  Digital Book World . “I’m very concerned that there’s going to be another digital divide,” said Carol Rasco, president and CEO of Reading is Fundamental. “I fear that ...
  3 weeks ago

• "Diego", progetto europeo di lettura facilitata sul web

  
  Pselion Web Agency Blog — Authority: 98
  Diego (Digital Inclusive e-Government) è un progetto europeo di lettura facilitata sul web.  Co-finanziato dalla Commissione Europea, ha lobiettivo di sviluppare una piattaforma di amministrazione elettronica "inclusiva e accessibile" che renda i servizi della e-amministrazione facilmente consultabili e ...
  3 weeks ago

• Top 1% of Mobile Users Consume Half of Worlds Bandwidth, and Gap Is Growing

  
  Bits — Authority: 776
  The world’s congested mobile airwaves are being divided in a lopsided manner, with 1 percent of consumers generating half of all traffic. The top 10 percent of users, meanwhile, are consuming 90 percent of wireless bandwidth, reports Kevin J. O’Brien in The New York Times. Read more »
  3 weeks ago

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