“Your Google personalized homepage puts the information you care about on one web page — and now you can access that page on your mobile phone or device, in a phone-friendly format that’s easy to read and navigate.” Personalized Home FAQ Continue Reading
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Category Archives: Wireless Web
America’s Most Literate Cities, 2005
America’s Most Literate Cities, 2005: Seattle, WA ranked as the number one city for Internet literacy, defined in terms of “Internet resources available to the population.” These resources include library Internet connections, commercial and public WiFi access, Internet book orders, and reading newspapers on the Internet. Continue Reading
Google Goes Way Beyond Search
Who’s Afraid of Google? Everyone, by Kevin Kelleher. “It seems no one is safe: Google is doing Wi-Fi; Google is searching inside books; Google has a plan for ecommerce.” postings on Google Print/Book Search Google Wants to Provide Free WiFi to SF Google Plans Online-Payment Service Continue Reading
Democrats Advance Innovative Technology Agenda
Press release: “House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi unveiled the House Democrats new Innovation Agenda: A Commitment to Competitiveness to Keep America #1 (12 pages, PDF) in a speech at the National Press Club this morning. “First, we recognize that in a globalized, knowledge-based economy, America’s greatest resource for innovation and economic growth resides within America’s… Continue Reading
Paper Examines Liability Issues and WiFi Access
Hale, Robert V., Wi-Fi Liability: Potential Legal Risks in Accessing and Operating Wireless Internet. Santa Clara Computer and High Technology Law Journal, Vol. 21, p. 543. “Suppose you turn on your laptop while sitting at the kitchen table at home and respond OK to a prompt about accessing a nearby wireless Internet access point owned… Continue Reading
Fee or Free – Hotels and WiFi Access
Many Hotels Quit Charging For Web Access – Discount Chains Lead Push, But Some Swanky Spots Balk; Where It’s Free, Where It’s Not (WSJ, sub. req’d) Press release: Broadband-Enabled Hotels to More Than Triple by 2009 Continue Reading
Volunteerism From Wireless Experts Connects Katrina Victims
“Radio Response is a group of volunteer IT professionals founded by Mac Dearman and dedicated to establishing an emergency communications infrastructure and currently working in the areas affected by hurricane Katrina. Beneficiaries of our work include shelters, medical centers,and relief organizations. All of our work is non-profit.” Continue Reading
Earthlink Chosen for Wireless Philadelphia Project
Press release: “EarthLink…today announced that it has been selected by Wireless Philadelphia to develop and implement the nation’s largest municipal Wi-Fi broadband network. Wireless Philadelphia expands the City of Philadelphia’s leadership position of using wireless technology to meet the needs of its residents and also enhance the City’s progressive visitor, tourism and business environment.” See… Continue Reading
Google Wants to Provide Free WiFi to SF
Press release, August 16, 2006: “San Francisco, CA Following through on a pledge made in last year’s State of the City address, Mayor Gavin Newsom today launched a new initiative to provide universal, affordable wireless broadband access to all San Franciscans at no cost or minimal cost to the City and residents.” Google submitted… Continue Reading
Commentary on Katrina’s Impact on Telecommunications
Katrina: The Sounds of Communications Silence, by John Wohlstetter, Discovery Institute, September 22, 2005: “The near total communications shutdown caused by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans reveals that in the four years since the September 11, 2001 terror attacks federal, state and local governments seemed to have learned nothing from 9/11.” Continue Reading
FCC Requires Certain Broadband and VoIP Providers to Accommodate Wiretaps
From the Order, released September 23, 2005: “In this Order, we conclude that the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) applies to facilities-based broadband Internet access providers and providers of interconnected voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service. This Order is the first critical step to apply CALEA obligations to new technologies and services that… Continue Reading
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From 0 to 360 in Seconds How to Get Up to Speed with Thomson’s Firm360, by Donna Cavallini CongressLine by GalleryWatch.com: The American Town Meeting, by Paul Jenks The Government Domain: RSS and Uncle Sam, by Peggy Garvin FOIA Facts: The Importance of FOIA, Part 2, by Scott A. Hodes Burney’s Gadgets for Legal… Continue Reading
