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• Cloud computing: is Google widening the digital divide?

  
  NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org blogs — Authority: 134
  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 ...
  17 hours ago

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

  
  Today's Review — Authority: 468
  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 ...
  3 days ago

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

  
  Black Web 2.0 — Authority: 538
  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 ...
  3 days ago

• Report Supports Obama Administration Investment Plans In Broadband

  
  MyTownTalks — Authority: 508
  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 ...
  4 days ago

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

  
  The Jose Vilson: The Blog — Authority: 490
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• The Guardian App for the iPhone

  
  Thoughts of a [wannabe] librarian — Authority: 99
  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 ...
  6 days 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 [...]
  1 week ago

• New years predictions for social media 2010…

  
  Senses: A blog about the Thirdi Software perception — Authority: 425
  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 ...
  1 week ago

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

  
  Life & Tech — Authority: 115
  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…
  1 week ago

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

  
  Online Journalism Blog — Authority: 531
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Motorola research shows technology use is becoming age-neutral

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 426
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Digital Divide: Not just a generational issue

  
  HOPE Foundation — Authority: 115
  The Washington Post put up   this article   pointing out that the digital divide is not just a generational divide, it can also be a poverty divide. As more and more schools use technology and ask students to do their assignments using internet resources, the Post points out that not every student is able to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Britons caught in Dilemma; Environment or Broadband?

  
  Cheap Broadband Internet — Authority: 136
  A research carried out by Broadband Suppliers has revealed that more and more people in the United Kingdom were envisaging a future life amidst the freshness of the countryside, even while balancing it with the apprehensive thinking of life with a slower broadband internet connection or perhaps none at all. The report ...
  2 weeks ago

• ON: Cokes Facial Profiler - Part 2

  
  ON: Digital+Marketing — Authority: 118
  In October, I introduced you to Cokes Facial Profiler . Using Facebook Connect Coke was building a database of images to help match you with your twin. I sat fascinated by the sophisticated nature of the execution. Phase II of the project launched last week. ( http://apps.facebook.com/facialprofiler/ )  ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Digital Divide

  
  Brian McCall's Economics of Education Blog — Authority: 120
  As elementary schools make more use of computers in the curriculum, it becomes more difficult for low income students to keep up since they are unlikely to have a computer with internet access at home. The Washington Post article "Lack of computer access hampers some students" reports that while public libraries ...
  2 weeks ago

• Can we build the perfect citizen?

  
  Rialtas.net - Government 2.0 — Authority: 92
  Interesting article by FRANK DILLON in this weeks Irish Times Innovation Magazine. The Perfect Citizen The role of the citizen in creating a new Ireland is an important one. What foundations, skills and moral attributes should the perfect citizen have?… …Perhaps its time to look at what was once viewed as ...
  2 weeks ago

• Internet use and self-rated health among older people: a national survey

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 151
  Background : Older people are among the segments of the population for which the digital divide is most persistent and are considered to be at risk of losing out on the potential benefits that the information society can provide to their quality of life. Little attention has been paid, however, to relationships ...
  2 weeks ago

• Digital divide and Wikipedia

  
  Thoughts of Nigel — Authority: 143
  Whilst crowdsourcing works wonders in places where there are plenty of educated earners,it falls down in places that underperform. One such area is Africa,as Marginal Revolution notes Almost the entire continent of Africa is geographically poorly represented in Wikipedia. Remarkably, there are more Wikipedia ...
  2 weeks ago

• Power to the People

  
  fsdaily.com - Free Software News - Published news — Authority: 160
  In todays world, we have a "digital divide," wherein some people have the means and tools to exploit technology and others do not. In most developing countries, people still pirate software because they cannot afford to pay for it.
  2 weeks ago

• JIM 2009

  
  Wir sprechen Online. — Authority: 137
  Das Internet bleibt für Jugendliche vor allem Kommunikationsmedium , so die aktuelle JIM -Studie ( PDF ); http://j.mp/7baoRA
  2 weeks ago

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