Social Media, Connectivity & Communications

First Trial of What Some Hope Will Become Online Ad Industry’s Long-Promised Self-Policing System

The government and Australia’s largest telecommunications company announced a deal Sunday that clears a major hurdle to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s plans for a superfast national broadband network.

The first 4G handset, Sprint’s HTC Evo, hits U.S. retail stores Friday, making this a good time to answer your questions about the fast wireless technology behind the Evo.

"What people have in their home is one megabyte," he said. "This is 10,000 megabytes. It’s 10,000 times faster."

In today’s mobile-device world, the idea of a wide-area metro wireless area has largely fallen into the technology irrelevance pile.

"We’ve seen LinkedIn continue to be the "little engine that could" in comparison to Facebook and Twitter."

Nearly 20 proposals in Montana totaling more than $200 million are being considered by the Obama administration, which says it will start announcing the final grants and loans this summer.

Companies that operate critical infrastructures and do not voluntarily allow the federal government to install monitoring software on their networks to detect possible cyberattacks would face the “wild” internet on their own and place us all at risk, a top Pentagon official seemed to say Wednesday.

As more websites do pop up over time, more and more people like Kelly are using their online resources to voice their opinions about sites like Spokeo.com, "I went ahead and emailed to everybody in my address book, saying…go ahead, go on there, you need to find your info and erase it."

Is Social Media a Fad…. Or the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution?