Social Media, Connectivity & Communications

The business world marvels at the pending $47 billion cable mega merger between AT & T and Comcast Corporation. Cable customers are promised more channels and better internet service. The trouble is, most Montanans have…

There’s nothing that kills that post-vacation glow faster than returning home to an overstuffed e-mail box. If you’re sitting on the beach right now cringing at the thought of opening your e-mail when you return,…

Qwest Communications International Inc. on Wednesday won the backing of U.S. antitrust enforcers for the telephone company’s bid to offer long-distance voice and data services in four states. Qwest, which is under federal investigation for…

Internet users around the country are clamoring for faster connection speeds. Some are laying down $40 or more a month for faster access, while others are hesitant to spend so much. Steve Kirsch says he…

There’s high-speed Internet in the air. A technology originally developed to link PCs in small, wireless clusters is spurring grassroots efforts to create Internet clouds that could eventually bypass the networks of big telecommunications providers….

An agreement between the city of Denver and Ricochet Networks Inc. has made Denver the nation’s first city with complete wireless Internet coverage. By Brent Boyer, Special to The Denver Post In exchange for granting…

When Qwest balked at bringing broadband to a rural town, locals didn’t just get mad. They did it themselves. Carl Oppedahl moved from Manhattan to Ruby Ranch, Colo., in 1997 for the typical reasons that…

From the beginning, the Internet had the whole free-form networking thing down. A packet of data could hop from one node to another all the way to its destination. Now a band of scrappy startups…

Several leading computer and telecommunications companies are discussing the joint creation of a wireless data network that would make it possible for users of hand-held and portable computers to have access to the Internet at…

City officials in Menlo Park, Calif., were looking at fixed wireless only as a cost-effective backup to their T1 line, but wound up replacing their wired connection to the Net entirely. govtech.net "We’ve shifted our…