Social Media, Connectivity & Communications

USDA Rural Development’s investments in broadband are helping rural communities
develop sustainable economic opportunities to improve the quality of life in communities across
the nation. The loan to Open Range is expected to foster business development and create new
jobs in Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana,
Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Wisconsin.

Tech-savvy doctors have been speculating about the iPhone’s medical potential long before Apple shipped its first unit.

Consumer discontent with wireless service has been brewing for years

The philanthropic program is aimed at helping the homeless not just communicate with friends and family, but also land jobs.

George Orwell’s 1984 envisioned a world where individuals were controlled and monitored by centralized government. In such a world, the individual had no place to hide from governmental omnipresence.

In the past three years, some 20 states have, like Indiana, switched to statewide franchises for cable TV. In the process, public, educational and governmental channels — the so-called "PEGs" — are getting hammered. Many are losing funding or studio space, and in a few places PEGs are being shut down altogether. The wild sandbox that gave political gadflies, aerobics instructors, sex therapists and many others a place to hone their video skills, while entertaining those who dared to watch, may never be the same.

Intel has found a way to stretch a Wi-Fi signal from one antenna to another located more than 60 miles away.

Every U.S. household is eligible to receive up to two coupons, worth $40 each, toward the purchase of eligible digital-to-analog converter boxes.

Chinook can’t sell you an iPhone. But its representatives will, if you bring them a properly tweaked one, activate it and hook you up with service.

For months there has been a rising chorus of alarm about the surging growth in the amount of data flying across the Internet.