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Sub Techs: Other Infrastructures: Shuffling High-Speed Rail $$
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Tuesday, May 10, 2011. Other Infrastructures: Shuffling High-Speed Rail $. The Obama administration hoped to commit $53 billion toward developing a high-speed rail network (a mere down payment on the $600 the U.S. High Speed Rail Association says are necessary to complete such a network). Reports today that some of those dollars are being reshuffled:. Mica, who favors a privately funded rail system, was critical Monday of funding for several projects that would benefit Amtrak’s operations in the No...
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Sub Techs: April 2009
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009. One To Watch: Google Antitrust Case. Keep your eyes on this one:. Justice Dept. Opens Antitrust Inquiry Into Google Books Deal. By Miguel Helft, NYTimes). The settlement, which was announced in October, gives Google the rights to display the books online and to profit from them by selling access to individual text and selling subscriptions to its entire digital collections to libraries and other institutions. Revenues would be shared between Google, authors and publishers. Of cou...
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Sub Techs: March 2011
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Wednesday, March 30, 2011. Broadband Availability By County Type. An effort at characterizing the diversity of American communities by creating a general typology of counties, has turned its lens toward broadband availability, in collaboration with Connected Nation. Well, having sat down with broadband data at many levels, yup, that predictive model is just about spot on. That said, as presented, I'm not quite sure what to make of the "community engagement" part of the equation. Since that is at ...A big...
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Sub Techs: February 2011
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Friday, February 25, 2011. S Korea Goal: 1gbps to the house. South Korea sets 1 Gbps residential broadband access goal - FierceTelecom. Published with Blogger-droid v1.6.7. Digital Divide, Minnesota. Nearly 30% of Minnesotans lack broadband. Published with Blogger-droid v1.6.7. Monday, February 21, 2011. NTIA Data (So Far.). Friday, February 18, 2011. High-speed Woes in China. Http:/ nyti.ms/f2mNk5' NYTimes: China Rail Chief’s Firing Hints at Trouble. Published with Blogger-droid v1.6.7. Will the $30 bil...
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Sub Techs: May 2011
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Tuesday, May 17, 2011. There have been a lot of complaints such as this one in the Boston Globe. From the Governor Peter Shumlin of Vermont lately:. Shumlin offered himself as an example. Data from FairPoint Communications shows the governor's hometown of Putney as wired with high-speed Internet service. Shumlin said that's true in the village, but not out in the hills where he lives. Thursday, May 12, 2011. FCC Commissioner Cashes Out. From the WaPo's Cecilia Kang is pretty blatant:. Federal Communicati...
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Sub Techs: June 2009
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009. A Step in the Right Direction: USASpending Site. Haven't had much of a chance to poke around it yet, but the newly released USA Spending. Site is definitely worth a long look. The purpose of the site, mandated by the Transparency Act:. The Map Is Not the Territory. There's been quite a bit of acrimony in the recent debate over the FCC's soon-to-be-released rules for a national broadband map and plan. As Art Brodsky of Public Knowledge rightly puts it. Brodsky is entirely correct&#...
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Sub Techs: Asheville's Wireless Network
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Thursday, June 30, 2011. Good piece in GovTech. About the City of Asheville's $20K wireless alternative to shelling out $450K/year for fiber. This put the city in a tough spot, said Jonathan Feldman, Asheville’s IT services director. Asheville’s station alerting, which was previously connected by fiber, had resulted in a threefold improvement in cardiac emergency survival rates and a 20 percent improvement in structure fire response rates. The city didn’t want to pay the new hefty fee for service, ...
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Sub Techs: Battles of the Bands
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Sunday, June 5, 2011. Battles of the Bands. I heard about this problem a couple months ago. Today's WaPo. Has a good summary. It seems that a wireless broadband network presently under development may cripple aviation GPS (and many consumer receivers as well):. Two of 21st-century America’s favorite gadgets — the smartphone and the GPS device — are on a collision course, according to a report delivered Friday to the Federal Aviation Administration. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete pro...
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Sub Techs: FCC Commissioner Cashes Out
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Thursday, May 12, 2011. FCC Commissioner Cashes Out. Okay, okay, it's not as though I expect a former F.C.C. Commissioner to sell all her possessions and walk the Earth like Cain on Kung Fu. From the WaPo's Cecilia Kang is pretty blatant:. Federal Communications commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker announced Wednesday that she will resign from the FCC on June 3 and join Comcast-NBC Universal as its senior vice president of governmental affairs. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.
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Sub Techs: April 2011
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Wednesday, April 13, 2011. The Vermont Senate has voted to speed up the permitting process for towers that will enable high-speed Internet access and cell phone service. Vermont's challenges are manifold: sparse population, lots of hills and trees. So wireless may be a near term solution, but wifi networks are hard (and expensive) to build in these condition. The legislation was not without its critics, suspicious of giving too much to the big telcos. As the Brattleboro Reformer. Friday, April 8, 2011.
