Social Media, Connectivity & Communications

“Technology is working for us — (EMTN) is convenient,” Hesse said. “Patients don’t have to travel to Billings — and who wants to travel when they aren’t feeling well.”

"The FCC’s retention marketing “decision promotes regulatory arbitrage,… thwart[s] competition, harm[s] rural America, and frustrate[s] regulatory parity.”

GPS systems that are enhanced with Internet connectivity could provide services like real-time point-of-interest updating, and even offer things like current coupons that could be sent to your cell phone automatically via Bluetooth.

Internet regulators have voted to relax rules on domain names

New software, called WebAnywhere, launched today lets blind and visually impaired people surf the Web on the go. The tool developed at the University of Washington turns screen-reading into an Internet service that reads aloud Web text on any computer with speakers or headphone connections.

"Is this interesting to Google?"

A list of who’s who on the Internet came together to promote a new group that launched Tuesday to expand broadband demand and deployment.

A federal appeals court Wednesday sharply limited the ability of employers to obtain e-mails and text messages sent by employees on company-financed accounts.

On these Internet-equipped planes, any passenger with a Wi-Fi enabled laptop — or a cellphone with Wi-Fi — will be able to do almost everything he or she could do online at home or at the office.

The site is designed to help family caregivers, nurses, social workers and others both share information and give each other emotional support, "filling a void in today’s healthcare system."