Social Media, Connectivity & Communications

"Fiber optics cost about $2,000 to install per house, with more isolated homes conceivably costing as much as $5,000 or $6,000, Cvetnich said. Meanwhile, County Administrator Keith Viers estimated that start-up costs for wireless installation have been between $120,000 and $150,000 over two years."

"Community leaders regard the eDan network the way they do roads: build one that’s big enough and businesses will come. "No doubt investor-owed [Internet] companies would eventually arrive in the rural areas," said Jim Bowie, a Bristol Virginia Utilities Board lawyer. "But we want to compete economically for development now."

Danville’s transformation is a rare example of a community using tobacco settlement money as it was intended, said Mark McMullen, a senior economist for Economy.com, an industry research group in Westchester, Pa."

"On an increasing basis," says Marriott spokesman Scott Carman, travelers are "selecting hotels based on the availability of high-speed Internet access. They want to have Internet access everywhere."

Quebec-based VisuAide’s new Trekker satellite-based navigation PDA is a GPS locator for the blind. It shows and reads out locations by street. Steve Makris CanWest News Service Calgary Herald Cutting-edge Canadian technology will give the…

Even in 1973, New Yorkers had a reputation for taking things in stride. But when Martin Cooper emerged from a Hilton Hotel 30 years ago Thursday to make the first calls with a portable cellular…

"We plan to immediately begin upgrading these systems to be able to launch advanced services such as broadband Internet service and Video on Demand as soon as possible," said Bill Bresnan, president and chief operating officer.

"TIA’s dialog technology will listen to your words, then link you to a trove of data that makes today’s Web look like the library of an illiterate."

The National Center for Small Communities (NCSC) is offering a new toolkit to help small communities establish more competitive positions in the knowledge economy through aggressive information technology adoption strategies. Following in the footsteps of…

Utah’s largest city has joined the world’s largest proposed fiber-optics network that would connect directly to homes and businesses. By Karyn Hsiao The Salt Lake Tribune On Thursday, Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson signed…

Spokane-area residents can now sign up for Internet-based phone service, a New Jersey company announced Wednesday. The Spokesman Review -From staff reports Vonage, based in Edison, N.J., is offering local and long-distance calling for monthly…