Social Media, Connectivity & Communications

"There’s another party at this table, by the way. Local governments can and should be building their own fiber networks, as some already have done. Unsurprisingly, the phone companies have been lobbying state legislatures to forbid this practice. We need

Major manufacturers of wireless networking products announced support Thursday for a new standard intended to shore up security for the increasingly popular Wi-Fi networking technology. By Margaret Kane Staff Writer, CNET News.com Among those backing…

Touch America, an Internet service provider, announced Thursday that unknown hackers broke into one of its Internet servers and were able to compromise a file containing information on about 7,000 customers in Montana and six…

Efforts to wire U.S. homes with high-speed Internet access are foundering. New technology could help–if only carriers could afford to buy it. The much-hyped broadband revolution is sputtering. Five years after cable companies and local…

Mile-high Web access could help airlines boost revenues Oct. 24 — Airplane flights, perhaps the final refuge for travelers who want a break from their e-mails, are about to get connected. By Ron Lieber and…

Telecom bright spot: FTTH starts to take off An area of communications infrastructure where deployment rates will skyrocket over the next 12 months? It may sound like a pipe dream, but that’s what market research…

SHERIDAN, Wyo. — I’ve seen a lot of sights over the years on our family ranch here, but I never expect to see a cable-company crew stringing wire across miles of grazing land to provide…

In the networking industry, fatter pipes cure all ills. But a countermovement is taking shape under the "small is beautiful" banner, eschewing the relentless pursuit of broadband. Wireless personal area networks are paragons of simplicity:…

If fiber is not coming to a building or curb near you, it’s time to squeeze more juice out of that copper loop ringing your premises. Actelis, a 3-year-old company founded by ex-Nortel, 3Com, Fujitsu…

Following President Bush’s call for the nation to "be aggressive about the deployment of broadband," the Technology Administration within the U.S. Department of Commerce recently issued Understanding Broadband Demand — a 25-page paper examining the…