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Herb Allen’s Sun Valley media summit a-Twitter about tech

Twitter still hasn’t come up with a way to make money. That is likely to stir speculation that Williams may be fishing for business partners or even an acquirer as he holds court in Sun Valley.

Government Makes $4 Billion ‘Down Payment’ on Project to Expand Rural Broadband

The administration has touted the expansion of broadband access as a way to quickly create jobs during a stubborn recession.

Utopia to tell its member cities: Get ready to pay 7 years ago – Those making pledges in 2002 did not expect they’d have to kick in.

The Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency, or Utopia, was set up in 2002 to run a wholesale network that would lease capacity to any service provider who wanted to use the system’s fiber-optic lines to serve customers.

Broadband Indispensible to Americans, Survey Finds

The percentage of broadband users has increased from 55 percent in May 2008 to 63 percent in April 2009 – placing the Internet in the ‘must keep’ category for many Americans.

The High Cost of Internet Access

Sherwood, Oregon rethinks fiber-optic access for all

UK plans universal access to high-speed Internet

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Tuesday that high-speed Internet access has become as "indispensable as electricity, gas and water" for most of the public.

Opera Unite reinvents the Web – Cloud computing and Web-based applications will never be the same

Opera Unite makes serving data as simple and easy as browsing the Web.

Can National Broadband Plan Handle Nation’s Dreams?

Big money is at stake. So too might be the future of the economy.

Software change makes Twitter more accessible for the visually impaired

A simple change in security software recently made Twitter more accessible to the blind and visually impaired.

Attorneys warn trademark owners to register marks with Facebook

Intellectual property attorney Emile Loza explains on her blog that Facebook announced earlier this week that it would start to let users register vanity URLs in the form: http://www.facebook.com/username.