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Broadband penetration still lags in U.S.
The United States still lags behind several developed countries in broadband penetration despite experiencing solid growth over the past year, according to new data released by the Organization for Economic Development and Cooperation.
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TeliaSonera launches first commercial LTE services
Mobile operator TeliaSonera has launched the world’s first commercial LTE (Long-Term Evolution) networks, in the central parts of Stockholm and Oslo, it said on Monday.
Internet Society invests in W3C
The Internet Society announced Friday that it was making a $2.5 million donation over the next three years to the World Wide Web Consortium, the premier standards-setting body for the Web.
Dell enters converged networking market
Dell entered the Fibre Channel over Ethernet market last week with OEM deals from Brocade and QLogic and endorsed 10GbE as a customer’s technology of choice.
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DirectAccess and UAG: Better Together
Here are some of the key reasons why you would want to run Unified Access Gateway with DirectAccess
Amazon’s data center outage reads like a thriller
When an Amazon Web Services data center lost power early Wednesday, the details about the event trickled out over Amazon’s operations status board. Performance monitoring firms offer services designed to get ahead of such problems.
FCC needs to smother eight burning wireless service fires
The Federal Communications Commission complaint handling skills are but one of the main issues causing the agency heartburn today as government watchdogs issued a final report critical of the way it has handled the growing wireless service industry.
IT Blogwatch: Google phone revealed (don’t call Nexus One an iPhone killer)
Google employees are running around with test phone handsets, made by HTC, the ‘Nexus One’. Predictably, this has sparked off another wave of speculation about Google launching a gPhone in its own right. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers utter a Passion-ate Bravo. Not to mention stupid customers… (GOOG)
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Seth Weintraub: Google Phone (HTC Passion?) being distributed to employees
It looks like the “real” Google Phone is upon us. From initial reports (mostly tweets from Google employee tweets — which could be a hoax), TechCrunch is hearing things like:
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Beginning Fortran
Long, long ago (about 1970), I was an electrical engineering student with the requirement to take a one-credit-hour Fortran programming course. How easy it is for a course like that to take way more than one hour! …
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