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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.

Online businesses oppose ’10 worst’ proposed Net laws

NetChoice, a group backed by AOL, Yahoo, eBay, Oracle and other online companies, launched a campaign Tuesday against proposed laws across the country that it says would harm e-commerce and consumers.

Rural Americans long to be linked

"Just because we live in rural America doesn’t mean we shouldn’t have broadband," says Roper, a third-generation peanut farmer. "We’re all Americans. We shouldn’t be treated less than anyone else."

FCC Releases Report on Broadband for Rural America

The FCC called the 83-page report a "starting point for the development of policies to deliver broadband to rural areas and restore economic growth and opportunity for Americans residing and working in those areas."