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Scientists at the University of Sydney claim increased Internet speeds 100 times greater than current networks.    

Bemoaning the poor load speed of Web pages or the crawl of media downloads could soon become a thing of the past following news that a team of Australian scientists have developed a technology capable of making the Internet [...]

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Over the past 20 years, there’s been much speculation about what the convergence of computers and TV would ultimately look like. Paul Graham says that we now know the answer: computers.
“Convergence” is turning out to essentially be “replacement.” Why did TV lose? Graham identifies four forces: 1. The Internet’s open platform fosters [...]

The Internet has long been a mass medium in the US, but it just got a little more massive. eMarketer estimates that 63.4% of the US population uses the Web at least once per month, and that nearly seven out of 10 Americans will do so by 2013.

Since January, several companies have [...]

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Strong link between income and Web time
Among US affluent heads of household surveyed, those with annual household incomes of $250,000 and over spend the most time online, according to a study conducted from March through July 2008 by Ipsos Mendelsohn.

The researcher found that the average number of hours logged weekly increased with [...]

MuniWireless.com reports that a request for proposal has been issued by Suffolk and Nassau counties in New York state to cover all of Long Island’s 750 square miles with wireless broadband. The counties want a private partner or consortium to build and run the network for the potential 2.7 million customers there. The counties may [...]