Social Media, Connectivity & Communications

"Competition is promoted through interoperability because it allows small and regional wireless carriers to offer the public a service that is not interrupted by unsuccessful inter-carrier handoffs, and because consumers can make full use of their wireless devices regardless of which carrier is their serving carrier whenever the networks are technically compatible." RCA

Daniel Gross conducted an informal survey of the under-30 set in his office, asking if they had landline phones, he says he was greeted with “doleful, patronizing, silly-old man smiles.”

Using white spaces "will provide a way to provide broadband across long distances at much faster speeds than cellphone networks and Wi-Fi."

"Pixel wallpaper." -Any object, any surface, can potentially be a canvas for displaying information. Tim Berners-Lee

Google crawls the entire internet every couple of weeks and has recently started to keep track of who is linked to whom on social networks, blogs and just about every page they crawl. This new service is called Google Social Graph.

Many women at the conference were becoming very Katie Couric about their belief that they are not taken as seriously as their male counterparts at, say, Daily Kos, a political blog site. Nor, they said, were they making much money, even though corporations seem to be making money from them.

Montana’s online users are actually receiving less spam than any other state in the nation.

"What are you doing?"

The program, known as the Tribal Rural Law Enforcement Internet Project, has operated in some form since 1995.

CWA President Larry Cohen stressed that "if our nation is going to realize the economic gains of the Internet Age and ensure that a 21st century Internet is available for all, we need better data to help us get there. These bills now before Congress will greatly improve the quality of that information and will move us another step closer to bringing high-speed Internet access to every American."