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Bringing universal broadband to all Americans is not going to be cheap.
The Federal Communications Commission said Tuesday it could cost more than $350 billion to wire America with high speed Internet access.
The FCC has been given the responsibility of coming up with a national broadband policy to ensure every American has access to broadband. And [...]

What’s better than posting tweets from Twitter.com? Just about everything.
Third-party Twitter apps are typically more powerful, crammed with managerial features that get you quickly viewing, sorting, replying to messages, and retweeting in a click or tap. They automatically shorten URLs to fit Twitter’s character limit, and help you post pictures through other services, like TwitPic [...]

JAKARTA, Indonesia (CNN) — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.9 struck in Indonesia on Wednesday, the U.S Geological Survey said.
The quake was recorded about 33 miles (53 km) from Padang, the capital city of West Sumatra, Indonesia
Source :
http://cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/2009/09/30/strong-earthquake-jolts-indonesia/

The Latitude Z on wireless charging station, and wireless dock adapter on the right.
(Credit: Erica Ogg/CNET)
That Dell is releasing a new laptop for business customers is the opposite of surprising. But the fact that it contains notable features not seen in any other laptops certainly is.
Most everything about the new Latitude Z is expected: It’s [...]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–MIT professor Daniel Nocera is a “huge centralized energy person” but when he looks at the world’s energy challenges, he thinks the key is to make energy generation cheap and distributed.
MIT last year announced that a technology developed by Nocera’s lab– a catalyst that can split water–could be used store solar energy. Earlier this [...]

Intel’s Light Peak technology uses lasers and fiber optics to transfer data to and from PCs and other devices.
(Credit: Intel)
SAN FRANCISCO–You’ve probably heard about fiber optics for years–some kind of exotic technology used to carry gargantuan quantities of data across continents. But in the not-too-distant future, you might be plugging these tiny glass strands straight [...]

When you think fine wine, what comes to mind?
Napa Valley in California, or maybe somewhere in France. Well, now there’s a growing movement to make high end wines right here in Arizona.
The frontman for the movement is very familiar to many as a leader of a very different kind of group.
Maynard James Keenan is the [...]

Could Intel’s new Moblin 2.1 OS make a dent against Windows in the mobile and desktop markets?
At this week’s Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, the chipmaker debuted a beta version of its Moblin 2.1 open-source operating system targeted to run on a variety of devices, including smartphones, Netbooks, nettops, Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs), and [...]

One in five households worldwide will be wired up to the Internet by year’s end, according to new estimates from Gartner.

The number of households with fixed broadband connections is expected to reach 422 million across the globe this year, a jump of 10.5 percent over 382 million in 2008, the analyst firm said Friday. This [...]

Yes, Twitter’s mega-cash infusion is real. CEO Evan Williams confirmed on the company blog Friday that Twitter has raised a new round of investment from Insight Venture Partners, T. Rowe Price, and existing investors Institutional Venture Partners, Spark Capital and Benchmark Capital.
Williams says it’s “a significant round.” He didn’t say just how close it was [...]