Social Media, Connectivity & Communications

A new partnership formed by the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) http://www.arc.gov/ in Washington, D.C. with the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation and Carnegie Mellon University will soon be bringing wireless broadband applications to rural Appalachian communities….

In the short run, Yunker noted, hotels with free broadband can attract more guests and large groups than their competitors.

During the decades from Fred Hoyle to Stephen Hawking, cosmologists have become more and more certain that the universe we live in was created in an explosive ‘Big Bang’ billions of years ago. Steve Simmons…

You become the star of your own game of six degrees of separation — based on the idea that anyone can be linked to anyone else in the world via six connections. Friendster links users to the fourth degree, or a friend’s friend’s friend’s friend.

"If we don’t have broadband, that’s going to be the death knell of us. And so we have to be able to bridge that and find a way to do it. It’s not a matter of can we do it, but when and how."

More than 60 universities, aided by Intel Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co., have set up a special computer network to test kinds of Internet services that could be deployed on a global scale. By DON CLARK…

Rather than wait for large ISPs to install public Wi-Fi access points in smaller cities, the Greater Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce http://www.portsmouthchamber.org/ will unveil its own (housed in the Chamber’s information kiosk) in historic Market…

PARIS — E-mail service will be available on all domestic flights in North America before the end of next year, although it will take two to three years for such services to become widespread elsewhere…

"…a whopping 80 percent of business people believe e-mail is more valuable than the phone for business communication."

on Thursday, June 19, 2003 Verizon on Thursday unveiled a prototype cordless/cellular phone hybrid and an expanded service bundle that includes free wireless Internet access in common areas of apartment buildings and condominiums. Submitted by…