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- Agriculture Economy (1)
- Bills, legislation, and ordinances (31)
- NH HB 653 to let communities use bonds to finance broadband
- Holland and the iPod tax
- Colorado interested in a "Qwest Monopoly Protection Act"
- Broadcast flag yanked down
- Overview of anti-muni broadband legislation
- Sessions bill garners attention
- State telecom deregulation activity
- Community Broadband Act is the right direction
- Lafayette says "yes" to fiber
- U.K. arrest for wireless theft
- SBC, Verizon, win in Texas
- Bloggers fight free speech restrictions
- Free speech fight on the Internet
- BellSouth voted for network neutrality before they voted against it
- It's now illegal to be annoying
- Vermont lowers barriers to broadband
- New Hampshire HB 653 approved 22-1 in Senate
- National franchises work against communities
- Who owns and controls right of way?
- Congress tries to bring down the Internet
- Don't confuse franchise fees with right of way rights
- Congress continues to pander to the telecom industry
- Our lawmakers explain the Internet
- USA Today on Net Neutrality
- Making ISPs snoop for the government
- Social networking ban: good or bad?
- Franchises and big boxes
- Local franchise fee fight brewing
- Forida votes for paper
- Grappling with technology
- Here we go again...
- Broadband (150)
- Redundant cable paths
- VoIP blocking will kill economic development
- Why the cable companies may lose the war
- "Super fast" is super slow
- SBC says "fiber is an unproven technology"
- Communities with broadband prosper
- Northern Ireland has 100% broadband coverage
- U.S. broadband: "Slowest, most expensive in the world"
- Free broadband, pay for service
- Broadband take rate has nothing to do with price
- Rural communities slowly getting more broadband
- We didn't really expect you to actually use broadband....
- The two tier Internet
- Financing community broadband
- South Korea commits $830 million to broadband
- Communities do take over private utilities
- How does $15/month broadband sound?
- Community broadband cuts telecom costs up to 48%
- Open service provider networks
- French get broadband two thousand times faster than the U.S.
- Boston goes with open access network
- Slow broadband is getting cheaper
- The gold of the Knowledge Economy
- Broadband in gas lines
- IP TV as the new dot-com bubble
- Open Service Provider Networks are a win-win-win
- Rural Telecon: Open Service Provider Networks
- U.S. Broadband: Costly and slow
- Demand for bandwidth is not made up
- Is Muni WiFi "stalling"
- California to invest $460 million on broadband
- $30 a year phone service
- Still looking for fiber's upper limit
- Do we really want faster horses?
- January tech doldrums
- Open access vs. Open Service Provider Networks
- Disaster highlights Internet robustness
- Open ditch policies
- Is India's "free broadband" a good idea?
- Satellite broadband looks good
- Cable providers show off faster speeds
- Network in the sky
- WiFi-only projects are failing
- U.S. enjoys slow broadband
- Video is driving the broadband business
- FiOS TV complaints
- U.S. continues to fall behind in broadband
- Why communities need to take control
- 30 megabit broadband is not the best we can do
- Ohio and broadband
- Community development (32)
- Bush calls for broadband
- U.S. is falling behind in science education
- A Model Technology Council
- Smart Mobs--Book of the Month
- Is your community open for business?
- How work gets done: Social networks in practice
- RTC Conference: Wilhelm keynote
- New group forms around fiber to the home
- County Administrator: Broadband is necessary
- The coffeehouse as office space
- Rio Rancho, NM provides a model for citywide wireless
- Southwest Regional Spaceport to host X Prize Cup
- St. Paul to look for the common good
- ConnectMaine set ambitious and sensible goals
- Anti-community legislative roundup
- This Little Light of Ours
- Loma Linda, California requires broadband infrastructure
- Ohio Community Development, Technology Conference
- Nine Questions for Communities
- Great Plains communities are starting to "get it"
- Good news for rural areas
- Cool cities in Michigan
- Rural Telecon: Breakfast Keynote (Tuesday)
- Economic Development blogging
- Dealing with the future in New England
- The iPod generation
- Roanoke tries to attract youth
- Better living in small towns
- Open service provider networks
- Rural Telecon '06 in October
- Rural Telecon: Broadband and local leaders
- Getting ready to grow
- Content and content providers (145)
- TV now includes broadband
- TV is dead, long live TV
- Search wars continue to heat up
- Microsoft doesn't "need" to be the gatekeeper
- XM radio sued by music industry
- Hello--it's that billboard calling...
- Schools overreact to student blogs
- Google spreadsheets
- Try Clusty for search
- Netflix ready to go to the 'net
- Bye, bye Blockbuster?
- Blogging goes mainstream on the Web
- Search 2.0 and third generation search engines
- Enjoy hours of video....
- YouTube world's biggest time waster
- Searching is a Snap
- Cheap easy video is changing politics
- Newspaper owner says the Web works better
- Apple promotes music, TV, movies
- The rest of the Apple movie download story
- Amazon vs. Apple
- Build your own bookstore
- IP TV as the new dot-com bubble
- Wkikpedia, meet Citizendium
- Cellphone sports is a dead ball
- Are Google book scans selling books?
- GoogTube: will it change free video?
- Google told to stop using other people's content
- Live search looks pretty good
- YouTube on cellphones
- The music companies continue the fight to own everything
- Lights, action, pass the butter
- College football goes to the Internet
- Google's new search engine
- Gamers make better surgeons
- Is Second Life an MLM scheme?
- Will Joost trounce YouTube?
- Publishers follow music industry down the wrong road
- Open Source search engine coming
- Viacom sues Google over video
- Mainstream media struggles with blogging
- Blogging as a job
- Has Google killed the Internet?
- DRM may be going away on music
- Google's total information obsession
- Music sales plunge
- YouTube comes to TV
- Are Google ads worth it?
- Jumbo shrimp and "online privacy"
- Adware may be part of next Windows OS
- Economic development (106)
- Broadband and the public good
- Digital Cities: PacketFront talk
- Has the economy turned a corner?
- Ohio economic development strategy
- America still has an edge in the Global Economy
- South Korea builds a Digital Media City
- Great Plains communities are starting to "get it"
- Friedman's The World is Flat
- Designing an ecommerce Web site that works
- A question for your economic developers
- Redundant cable paths
- Counting the microenterprise
- Outsourcing comes home
- iPod for real estate
- Denmark nurtures microbusinesses
- Economic Development blogging
- Thirty percent of households shop online
- Economic development of the future
- Communities with broadband prosper
- The iPod generation
- Businesses hate red tape
- Georgia creates "Entrepreneur Friendly" communities
- USDA's Dorr says quality of life a key factor for rural communities
- Lack of broadband hurts business recruitment
- Blogging and economic development
- Kentucky "gets" economic development
- Web search: get on page one
- Small businesses hurt by lack of broadband
- Do high energy prices help rural areas?
- The work from home movement
- Roanoke tries to attract youth
- Economic development news
- Better living in small towns
- Population: 351 (and fiber)
- The "whoops" report: entrepreneurs are creating jobs
- Broadband and electric power, not water and sewer
- Fiber transforms local economies
- Power, quality of life, and broadband
- Attracting talent, not businesses
- Charleston's Digital Corridor worth studying
- U.S. may be sliding downhill economically
- Outsourcing: The good and the bad
- American cities not very intelligent
- Food: Fuel for the Knowledge Economy
- Greenways can make money for a community
- The Internet and airports
- Long commutes are good news for rural towns
- Does your state have the slowest broadband?
- Electricity and economic development
- Broadband does not replace the basics
- Education and Training (25)
- U.S. is falling behind in science education
- We're not reading...
- Are you a digital immigrant?
- Ukraine has a vision for the future
- Computers missued in schools
- What corporate America wants from its workforce
- Are we teaching the right things?
- Digital Cities: Iowa report
- Cleveland tackles digital literacy
- Technology training for the Knowledge Economy
- Open Source robots
- Half of college grads lack key skills
- Video games good for something after all
- iPods are now corporate training tools
- What our kids need to succeed in the Global Economy
- What our kids need
- Classroom wireless spawns inattention
- Schools overreact to student blogs
- Saying no to school laptops
- Rural Telecon: Opening Keynote
- Top jobs in the next ten years
- Gamers make better surgeons
- Preparing our kids for the future
- School laptops a waste of money
- Saving money in our K12 schools
- Energy Economy (52)
- Carbon nanotubes generate electricity
- UPS trucks powered by hydrogen
- New hydrogen storage system
- Solar and hydrogen fuel cells will power the grid
- Wind powers the Energy Economy
- Cheap solar cells can be sewn into clothes
- High gas prices create booming markets
- Cow manure powers hydrogen cars?
- Nanostructure hydrogen fuel tanks
- Cold fusion for real
- Hydrogen fusion power
- Corn replaces oil
- Freakonomic analysis of the energy "crisis"
- Fuel cell motorbikes
- Laptop fuel cells coming
- Will your emergency power work?
- Hydrogen "pill" solves storage problem
- MP3 players get fuel cells
- Zero emissions engines
- Hydrogen fuel from solid metal
- New wind turbine generates cheap power
- Honda rolls out home hydrogen fuel cell station
- Truckers using hydrogen to save fuel, cut pollution
- Water may power the Energy Economy
- Steam cars are coming
- Nuclear power warms up
- E85 cars and trucks may save American automakers
- Gas stations in space
- Clean water and cheap power--two for one
- There is still a lot we don't know
- Greenpeace founder endorses nuclear power
- OLED bulbs will save us money
- Buy low, sell high
- Do high energy prices help rural areas?
- Where is my electric car?
- Cheap electric cars are just what we need
- Electric Zen
- Fuel cell power source
- Fill 'er up....with water
- Perhaps there is a free lunch
- Energy drives IT
- Manure + methane = Energy Economy profits
- Does GM have an electric rabbit?
- Electric power and the Energy Economy
- Where will the electricity come from?
- LEDs changing projection technology
- Seventy five cent gasoline
- Black market light bulbs
- Resilient electric power
- New fuel cell does not need hydrogen
- Entrepreneurship (10)
- Where the jobs are
- Customer service in the Knowledge Economy
- How work gets done: Social networks in practice
- eBay and business
- Getting businesses online
- T-Mobile: another IT failure
- This Little Light of Ours
- Maryland tech councils merge
- USDA's Dorr says quality of life a key factor for rural communities
- Clean water and cheap power--two for one
- Future trends (80)
- Driven to distraction by technology
- Space trumps pop
- Nanotechnology fights cancer
- Franchise-free Internet TV
- Cool cities in Michigan
- Truveo video search engine
- Rural Telecon: Opening Keynote
- American companies supress freedom
- Creating "old" neighborhoods
- The iPod Generation
- The Internet is booming
- Good-bye to long distance
- SpaceX is blogging
- It's official: Computers drive us to drink (and smoking)
- Rural areas need Halo Centers, not more call centers
- The iPod generation
- Cheaper, faster computer memory from gecko feet
- The phone is dead
- PCNA Conference 2006: First impressions
- Say good-bye to the laptop
- The deconstruction of AT&T
- Buy low, sell high
- Robot surgeon cuts health costs?
- Are you a Web hermit?
- Printable airplanes
- Lightpaths are coming to Ireland
- Population: 351 (and fiber)
- Real life, or something like it
- Amazon offers an eBook
- Wkikpedia, meet Citizendium
- Network backups as a business
- Have American businesses lost their minds?
- Web 3.0: I did not know we were done with Web 2.0
- Demand for bandwidth is not made up
- Faraday cages for test takers
- New Year's resolutions for communities
- World's largest copper reserve is in the U.S.
- Is the 'net being ruined by spam and crooks?
- Microsoft blesses IPTV
- The Apple iPhone
- Reconstructing Ma Bell
- New media is beating old media
- Verizon passed on the iPhone
- Has technology killed customer service?
- Hotel surveys as spam
- The dark side, the bright side
- Cellphones stop ringing in the UK
- iPhone and the Web
- Have FaceBook and MySpace peaked?
- TV still on track to die
- Hardware and gadgets (121)
- Faster, lighter laptops coming
- Mac laptop runs Windows better than Windows laptops
- VW designs sensible car interface
- Apple announces purchase of GM's Delphi unit
- Talking sneakers
- Is Dell in trouble?
- iPod neckwear
- 25 worst tech products of all time
- iPods more popular than beer
- Just skip the phone
- Fuel cell power source
- Frightening device sends TV anywhere
- RFID credit cards great for crooks
- How to avoid RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury)
- Integrated voice, mouse, and keyboard
- Dell drops out of MP3 player market
- Cordless phone makes VoIP easy
- Is the iPod cooling?
- Amazon offers an eBook
- Apple promotes music, TV, movies
- Play a Zune for me
- Levi blue jeans are now iPod ready
- Mythbusters crack technology with copy machine and spit
- Your watch is ringing
- Hubble Telescope can't be repaired in space
- Airplanes now an iPod accessory
- Zune takes a drubbing from critics
- The iPod tax
- GPS takes ambulance 200 miles off course
- ECG/EKG for home use
- iPod gloves
- GPS mis-directions
- Will Apple start a "war?"
- iPod ready LCD projector
- Build your own robot
- More on the iPhone
- Verizon passed on the iPhone
- More things you did not know you needed
- Combo DV movie and still camera
- iPods banned in crosswalks
- LEDs changing projection technology
- The beer launching fridge
- Does Google have a phone?
- iPod ready kitchen TV/multimedia center
- Apple seeks to dominate the living room
- Macs rocket ahead of PCs
- Solid state disks will transform laptops
- iPhone and the Web
- Early iPhone reports
- The iPod is a Mac
- Information architecture (3)
- Infrastructure (33)
- WiFi startup stops
- Nintendo handheld will drive WiFi
- AT&T gets out of local dial tone--sort of
- Fiber to the home projects in the U.S.
- RTC Conference: Building Last (First) Mile Infrastructure
- Indian state builds fiber to every town
- RTC Conference: Building Last (First) Mile Infrastructure
- Sun rents out supercomputer
- Railroads vs. canals: We've all been here before
- Digital Cities: Open Service Provider Networks
- Microduct and blown fiber movie
- Loma Linda, California requires broadband infrastructure
- BPL is no cure all
- Why cellphones won't replace landlines
- British Columbia builds MSAPs
- New Zealand builds MSAPs
- Satellites, Mother Nature, and Technology
- MSAPs are still needed
- Rural Telecon: Luncheon keynote (Monday)
- Rural Telecon: Fiber should be free
- Why fiber is a safe investment
- Funding fiber: A simple solution
- Amsterdam gets it on community fiber
- Iceland, Greenland, and redundancy
- St. Louis builds an MSAP
- Cleveland gets connected
- Open access fiber project signs up everybody in town
- Fiber or Wireless--It's both!
- How does $15/month broadband sound?
- Do it yourself fiber
- Poles and right of way
- Fiber to the home through sewers
- World standard for blown fiber and microduct
- Policy and regulation (114)
- Intel champions community networks
- Public roads, private roads
- Say good-bye to cable franchise fees
- Is Iowa the telecom battleground?
- Communications utility FAQ
- Duopoly dangers
- Massachusetts says "No" to Microsoft
- Revenge of the ISPs, or the FCC was right
- FTC Commissioner says muni broadband a good thing
- Privacy and the double meat pizza
- VoIP blocking will kill economic development
- Funding fiber: A simple solution
- Good-bye to long distance
- WiFi is not a "right"
- The Internet Monroe Doctrice
- Bloggers don't fall under campaign rules
- The government is not Big Brother...
- U.S. broadband: "Slowest, most expensive in the world"
- Do the phone companies owe us $200 billion?
- Network neutrality and the future of communities
- Vermont lowers barriers to broadband
- The end of the Internet?
- Will the Internet be free or fee?
- PCNA 2006: IP is a social contract
- Net Neutrality Defined
- Feds compromise with Google on search queries
- Bloggers exempt from political rules
- Swedish study says cellphones may create tumor risk
- Save the Internet
- Net neutrality does not "limit" providers
- Friends and enemies: Google and the telcos
- Two tier Internet: We know what happens
- Public safety project has to fight Verizon
- Competition works
- A blog too far
- More top level domains not an improvement
- Cisco patents the triple play
- Image spam driving everyone crazy
- Ruled by idiots
- 50% tax rate on business telecom
- Phone deregulation in Virginia
- Open access satellite radio
- FCC still studying net neutrality
- Open ditch policies
- FCC to look at broadband
- Stop phishing with a new domain
- 700 Mhz spectrum up for grabs
- AT&T ready to set up toll booths for all of us
- Voting machines may finally get fixed
- Ohio and broadband
- Software (53)
- TV-style ads on the Web
- Microsoft's future, Open Source, and Apple
- Cellphone viruses
- The dangers of monoculture software
- Web tales
- Money protected by bad passwords
- Are your computers secure?
- Why USAir is bankrupt, part 3
- Why the airlines are bankrupt, Part 4
- Voting machines problems--already
- Google's Gmail already needed a security fix
- More on videoconferncing
- Mac OS X the "safest" computing environment
- Firefox Web browser a big hit
- Windows machines are easy to hijack
- Firefox users see fewer ads
- Oracle runs out of steam
- Penn State says "No" to Internet Explorer
- Google desktop search has a security hole
- Don't wait in line at the Post Office
- FBI hijacked by IT
- Firefox browser is fast and easy to use
- Apple's Tiger offers a quantum leap in information management
- Instant messaging brings business results
- Google to take on PayPal
- Massachusetts says "No" to Microsoft
- Apple remembers Rosa Parks
- "Web 2.0 is made of ....Outsauce"
- Does Microsoft "own" voting in the U.S.?
- Firefox 1.5 is fast
- Play Doh fools biometric systems
- Wisconsin mandates open source voting software
- U.S. government converting to Open Source databases
- Xerox: world's worst customer service
- Google Desktop copies company files to Google
- Will XORP give Cisco heartburn?
- Debit card PINs stolen
- Why buy MS Office when you can get it for free?
- Macs run Windows
- Pot calls kettle black
- Apple vs. Dell-to outsource or not to outsource
- New version of Office changes file formats
- Robots gone wild
- Marriott IT works
- Sometimes, all this stuff just works
- Is Google killing Microsoft?
- Microsoft's Vista degrades performance
- Microsoft taxes Mac users
- Airline IT failures
- Why health care costs so much
- Space Economy (31)
- The Space Economy starts on June 21st
- Successful SpaceShipOne flight opens the Space Economy
- Budget Suites is opening a space hotel
- Virgin Galactic to build commercial spaceships
- Kitty Hawk and Mojave, California: SpaceShipOne wins the X Prize
- Is space important?
- NASA scramjet breaks speed records
- Congress gives thumbs up to space tourism
- More race to space...
- Space Economy continues upward trend
- Space companies form industry association
- SpaceX gets Air Force contract
- Searching for the Space Economy
- 2001 and a space odyssey
- Space trumps pop
- Space elevator gets testing approval
- Space elevator tests go well
- Has New Mexico won the space race?
- SpaceX is blogging
- Space: The Next Frontier, fueled by dot-commers
- FAA working on space tourism rules
- Gas stations in space
- Space Elevator tests get a lift
- Florida benefits from the Space Economy
- SpaceX wants to compete with Russia
- Space puts west Texas on the map
- New Mexico SpacePort blasts off
- SpaceShipTwo is booking passengers
- Spaceport America takes off
- Lots of business will be in space
- Scramjet test in Oz
- Voice over IP (57)
- WiFi phone
- AT&T gets out of local dial tone--sort of
- Area codes and VoIP
- The emerging telecom wars
- VoIP spam--the next horror?
- VoIP saves small businesses money
- AT&T still in the consumer market
- VoIP getting even easier
- AT&T slashes residential VoIP prices
- Earthlink adds VoIP services
- FCC may regulate VoIP
- We've found the killer app
- Videophones are ready for business
- Rollin', rollin', rollin', keep those new phones rollin'
- More VoIP good news
- Sun Rocket VoIP--$199/year
- WiFi and cellphones: Dueling technologies?
- What is Google up to?
- The killer app
- New VoIP phones coming out
- VoIP being blocked
- Motorola to build Skype cellphones
- VoIP works just fine at 80 mph
- The Empire strikes back
- 40% of international phone calls
- 911 disconnect
- FBI raises the cost of VoIP
- AOL jumps into VoIP
- VoIP cuts business phone bill by 80%
- VoIP: Project Gizmo challenges Skype
- VoIP providers don't know what to do
- Singapore mainstreams VoIP
- New Zealand phones go all IP
- Can you spell "bubble?"
- Why read this blog?
- VoIP will be huge
- 15 megabit mobile VoIP in Japan
- Radio Shack will sell Skype phones
- Skype conference phone
- Has Skype won the VoIP wars?
- Skype phones take off
- Microsoft to offer VoIP
- Toronto announces wireless blanket
- Will UMA save the cellular industry?
- Vonage is sinking
- Frightening device sends TV anywhere
- Cordless phone makes VoIP easy
- Hybrid phones will become the standard
- Skype is redefining the "phone"
- VoIP pays big benefits
- Web design (2)
- WiFi and wireless (72)
- Texas WiFi at rest stops
- WiFi in Texas state parks
- The future of WiFi
- Muni wireless: friends and foes
- Hands off WiFi
- WiFi and the Sock Puppets
- Motorola to build Skype cellphones
- VoIP works just fine at 80 mph
- Michigan muni wireless project
- Free WiFi has its limits
- Nine seconds to crack a home wireless network
- Orlando pulls plug on free WiFi
- Will EVDO save cellular?
- WiFi theft
- WiFi poaching and the law
- Cable companies want to sell you wireless
- Emerging monopolies
- WiMax vs. EVDO: Who will win?
- Another WiMax delay
- Philadelphia and broadband aggregation
- Vermont gets WiFi at rest stops
- The cellular empire strikes back
- Google, fiber, and WiFi
- A Tech Council making a difference
- 15 megabit mobile VoIP in Japan
- Rural Oregon county has biggest WiFi system
- Taiwan plans whole country wireless broadband
- Maybe cellphones are not as risky as we thought
- New superfast WiFi system clobbers older WiFi
- U.S. broadband: "Slowest, most expensive in the world"
- Toronto announces wireless blanket
- Will UMA save the cellular industry?
- Community wireless contract issues
- Citywide WiFi projects are expensive experiments
- Free WiFi may not always be "free"
- The state of WiFi
- Wireless won't work for HD TV
- Hybrid phones will become the standard
- Muni wireless: good, bad, or indifferent?
- FCC gets it right in Boston
- Is Muni WiFi "stalling"
- Good news for cellphone users
- Is the iPhone a Verizon killer?
- Cellphone tumor risk still murky
- Does Google have a phone?
- Is India's "free broadband" a good idea?
- WiMax laptop card
- WiFi-only projects are failing
- 700 Mhz spectrum up for grabs
- Wireless is slow
Community news & projects
- Arizona (1)
- California (9)
- A second state readies a spaceport
- Northern California studies best practice in community networks
- Yet another pointless fight over broadband
- Befuddled San Francisco officials
- SpaceX gets Air Force contract
- Loma Linda, California requires broadband infrastructure
- Citywide WiFi projects are expensive experiments
- California to invest $460 million on broadband
- California reviews electronic voting
- Colorado (2)
- Florida (5)
- Florida bill would stop muni telecom systems
- Orlando pulls plug on free WiFi
- Florida benefits from the Space Economy
- Florida publishes Social Security numbers
- Citywide WiFi projects are expensive experiments
- Georgia (3)
- Digital Cities: Dalton, Georgia Case Study
- Georgia creates "Entrepreneur Friendly" communities
- People obey traffic laws, Atlanta shuts down
- Illinois (6)
- Northern Illinois grabs hold of the future
- Chicago fights Illinois
- Community fiber works
- Illinois wants broadband
- High gas prices create booming markets
- SBC says "fiber is an unproven technology"
- Indiana (2)
- International (56)