Social Media, Connectivity & Communications

“It will help in locating community partners and establishing new relationships
that will foster better broadband service in areas of the country that really need
it.”

Broadband advocates and some vendors consider standards tied to the $7.2 billion for broadband projects in ARRA indicators of what will come from an overall broadband strategy. And some don’t like what they see.

A federal appeals court gave notice Friday it likely would reject the Federal Communications Commission’s authority to sanction Comcast for throttling peer-to-peer applications.

"Video will lead the revolution for exciting content available on any device or screen whenever you want it," Cisco CEO John Chambers said in an interview at CES.

The National Broadband Plan will serve as a blueprint for deploying broadband in areas of the country that lack it.

Let’s look at some networking best practices, along with a few ways you can use the various social media sites to engage with previously inaccessible people and get the attention of those who are too busy to return your phone calls or e-mails.

99 percent of households have a television, and 76 percent have a personal computer. So why not piggyback on the TV to extend the reach of high-speed broadband?

Frontier Communications, which wants to buy Verizon’s landline-telephone business in this and 13 other states, has agreed to hold residential-telephone rates steady for three years and invest $40 million in expanded high-speed Internet access as part of a package of concessions aimed at winning approval from the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission.

Just a few years ago, the U.S. was a leader in the percentage of households with broadband. Now it’s a laggard. We have much to learn from other places, especially in connecting broadband in rural communities.

Confused by all the hype surrounding Google Wave? Don’t understand what it is?