Social Media, Connectivity & Communications

Sen. Burns helps introduce technology from golf cart For those whose Internet access has always been a phone call away, the wireless, broadband Internet is on the way. By Michael Moore- Missoulian Fro those who…

On June 3, U.S. Senator Conrad Burns (R-Montana) will salute the nation’s first mobile broadband deployment, in Missoula, Montana, when IPWireless, Teewinot Wireless Data, and Internet Connect Services (ICS) announce the launch of the first…

It wasn´t that long ago that guys like Brent Greener couldn´t work in towns like Burley. Even if they grew up there, and their families were there. Gregory Hahn The Idaho Statesman If they worked…

Mike Sheard, iConnect’s Director of Operations, has been meeting with Missoula economic development specialists, the Missoula Connectivity Task Force and potential customers about the significant need for a data center in Missoula. Several suitable locations…

Years ago, the British comedy troupe Monty Python created a skit that made light of Spam, Hormel’s square-shaped canned pork-shoulder product, in which a waitress offering limited menu options sang, "Spam, spam, spam, spam" over…

An overwhelming number of small business owners consider broadband Internet access a significant, if not critical, resource, according to a study by technology consultancy the Yankee Group. By Michael Bartlett, Newsbytes The study said 90…

SHELBY — The 3 Rivers Telephone Cooperative will build a $5 million telephone plant in Shelby, offering the area’s first telephone and Internet competition, cooperative officials announced this week. By KAREN IVANOVA Tribune Regional Editor…

Billions were wasted in frenzy to build networks, 90% of which lie dormant By Jeff Smith, Rocky Mountain News Staff Writer More than 18 months into the telecom downturn, experts are still divided over the…

What is SPAM? Over 60 million Americans and countless others in the world (whether they admit it or not) eat SPAM-a tasty luncheon meat made of chopped pork and ham, salt, water, sugar and sodium…

A powerful senator today is introducing legislation that he said would bring high-speed Internet access to rural and "underserved" areas, fortifying his ideological bunker for a showdown between two equally influential and diametrically opposed telecommunications…