digital divide

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• 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”

• Eee PC 1000HE Loaded with Atom Processor

  
  rotatelogs.com — Authority: 167
  Let us have a look at the the Eee PC 1000HE – the first mini laptops available to use the new N280 version of Intel’s Atom processor. Like many other Netbooks, it has 1GB of memory, a 160GB hard drive and runs Microsoft’s Windows XP Home Edition. The difference is in the processor. It has the newer 1.66GHz N280 ...
  15 hours ago

• Worth reading this New Year’s Weekend

  
  latinopoliticsblog.com — Authority: 118
  Happy New Year! I will be ramping up the blogging in the next few days, but I thought that I would share some articles that I have been reading and pondering the last few days before delving into more detail and commentary in the coming weeks: Everyone should read this article in today’s Washington Post about ...
  3 days ago

• Who’s Afraid of Amateur Radio? And why do our babus fear it?

  
  Moving Images, Moving People! — Authority: 128
  When I was in my early teens (back in the early 1980s), I developed a great interest in radio. Not just in listening to radio broadcasts, which I did regularly while growing up in a country that had no television, but also in building a radio that could both receive and transmit signals.My school teacher [...]
  5 days ago

• Digital Divide Continues

  
  sloantech.com — Authority: 125
  Faster, cheaper broadband would be an attraction By emarketer.com
  6 days ago

• Digital Divide Continues

  
  Hispanic Digital Media — Authority: 128
  According to an Internet Innovation Alliance study of African-American and Hispanic consumers, only 42% use the Internet at least regularly. Another 30% were considered occasional users, while 16% did not use the Internet at all. African-American respondents were nearly twice as likely as Hispanics to never go ...
  6 days ago

• Hispanic Internet Use Outpaces Adoption Among Blacks, Whites

  
  Black Web 2.0 — Authority: 516
  Internet use among Hispanics grew 10 percent between 2006 and 2008, far outpacing adoption rates among Blacks and Whites in the same period, according to a report issued this week by the Pew Hispanic Center.During the same time period, growth for Blacks was only two percent, and was only four percent for Whites. The ...
  1 week ago

• Rust in Peace: Tribute to my old faithful Toshiba Satellite Pro A100

  
  Moving Images, Moving People! — Authority: 128
  For many of us, computers have become essential silicon extensions of our carbon selves — and we can’t imagine how we managed our work and leisure before their arriva. In my case, the attachment to my laptop goes beyond professional: it’s also my constant companion and travel partner.So it’s akin to a death in ...
  1 week ago

• Cherrypal’s Max Seybold talks ‘Africa’: $99 netbook no Kindle—but can run e-book software like FBReader

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  People read e-books on a variety of devices: dedicated readers, PDAs, iPhones and iPod Touches, and computers. Until recently, the price of most netbooks has been about on a par with or slightly more than e-book reading devices—meaning that people who are only interested in e-books might have incentive to choose the ...
  1 week ago

• 21st Century Snow Removal

  
  on dot-gov — Authority: 106
  Snaps to the Mayor and to the terrific folks at D.C. Public Works. After 20 inches of snow fell for 26 hours through Saturday night, the street in front of my house--a side street no less--was plowed before 5 a.m . Sunday morning. (Maybe even earlier. No neighbors were awake to verify.) This was very different from ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cloud computing: is Google widening the digital divide?

  
  NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org blogs — Authority: 129
  Recent announcements by Google make me think, that the company might go down a path that would ultimately mean more inequality, a worse position for developing countries and a widening digital divide. I’m referring specifically to Chrome OS, Google’s new operating system, and the announcement that Google would ...
  2 weeks ago

• Todays Drum – Positive Black News – African American News …

  
  Today's Review — Authority: 173
  Cherrypal has begun taking orders for the device on its Web site, where the small computer is described as “small, slow, sufficient”. “At Cherrypal, we’re extremely conscious of the so-called ‘digital divide’,” said Max Seybold, … Continue reading from the original source: Todays Drum – Positive ...
  2 weeks ago

• Tech Firms Bring Free Broadband to Washington D.C.

  
  Black Web 2.0 — Authority: 516
  Last week search giant Google, technology nonprofit One Economy, cell phone provider Cricket and hardware maker Qualcomm announced a plan to provide free broadband access for two years to low income communities in Washington, D.C.The program, called “Project Change Access, ” will distribute free computers and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Report Supports Obama Administration Investment Plans In Broadband

  
  MyTownTalks — Authority: 163
  Tejinder Singh - AHN Correspondent Washington, DC, United States (AHN) - Vice President Joe Biden today kicked off $7.2 billion in Recovery Act broadband grant and loan programs, of which $2 billion will be made available on a rolling basis over the next 75 days to bring high-speed Internet to communities that ...
  2 weeks ago

• On Why It’s Lonely Out Here for a Black / Latino Teacher Blogger. Really.

  
  The Jose Vilson: The Blog — Authority: 499
  Me Looking Out A week or so ago, I ended a blog entry about my appearance at GothamSchools.org’s fundraiser likeso: While at times in that gathering, while chewing on some wonderful chocolate chip cookies, I mulled over whether a Black / Latino man severely outnumbered ethnically and culturally in the many ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Guardian App for the iPhone

  
  Thoughts of a [wannabe] librarian — Authority: 103
  So I guess most people will be aware by now that there is now a Guardian application for the iPhone (you can hardly miss the ads in today’s paper).  I spent some time mulling over whether to add the application as, unlike a number of other newspaper applications, the Guardian app is not free.  However, I was ...
  3 weeks ago

• Thinking Out Loud: Is Social Media the new Pink Collar Ghetto of Tech?

  
  The Learned Fangirl — Authority: 106
  If you live in Chicago and work in online … anything really, you know that there are about 5 – 10 events going on each week geared toward technology and social media. Tweet-ups, networking functions, parties, demos, you name it.I went to one of these events earlier last week, a social media focused event, and [...]
  3 weeks ago

• New years predictions for social media 2010…

  
  Senses: A blog about the Thirdi Software perception — Authority: 127
  Well, another year over and only 2 more to go until we all die in the 2012 earth ending apocalyptic collisions between one fictitious rogue planet that someone haphazardly associated with a Sumarian creation myth and an ancient Mayan calendar , which like all calendars happens to have a beginning and end.  So ...
  3 weeks ago

• One writer’s look at the evolution of social networking

  
  Life & Tech — Authority: 117
  Just finished reading by commentary by Martha Irvine of the Associated Press that looks at her personal journey through social networking. I suspect a lot of us have had, from time to time, similar thoughts as we look at how social networking…
  3 weeks ago

• What’s your problem with the internet? A crib sheet for news exec speeches

  
  Online Journalism Blog — Authority: 560
  When media executives (and the occasional columnist on a deadline ) talk about ‘the problem with the web’ they often revert to a series of recurring themes. In doing so they draw on a range of discourses that betray assumptions, institutional positions and ideological leanings. I thought I’d put together a ...
  4 weeks ago

• Motorola research shows technology use is becoming age-neutral

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 435
  The 2009 Media Engagement Barometer commissioned by Motorola’s Home & Networks Mobility business has revealed a shift in [US] consumer influence that hasn’t been widely recognized yet: age no longer dictates a consumer’s willingness or ability to use media technology or services. In fact, all generations ...
  4 weeks ago

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