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SKorea to spend 3.4 bln dlrs on green IT: officials

Technology / Energy

created May 13, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

South Korea said Wednesday it will spend more than three billion dollars over the next five years to develop information technology as an "eco-friendly" growth engine.


Fleeing customers haunt phone co. in New England

Technology / Telecom

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- Phone companies fear that customers will increasingly switch off their landlines in favor of wireless phones or phone service from cable TV providers. So the last thing FairPoint Communications Inc. needed was to ...





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Electricity distributor Meralco plans to use its power lines to deliver broadband Internet access, the company has said

Meralco says planning broadband via power lines

Technology / Telecom

created Jul 13, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Top electricity distributor Manila Electric Co., better known as Meralco, plans to use its power lines to deliver broadband Internet service, a company statement has said.


Internet via power lines set to launch

Technology / Telecom

created Jul 20, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 0

A plan to offer consumers Internet access through their home's power lines may soon come to fruition for residents of Grand Ledge, Mich.


Growing online sales could lower prices, but also trim choices

Other Sciences / Economics

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Shoppers could see lower prices but less variety to choose from as more manufacturers sell directly to consumers through the Internet, according to new research led by a University of Illinois business professor.


Survey points up challenges for a Digital Britain

Survey points up challenges for a Digital Britain

Technology / Internet

created Jun 22, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

In the wake of Lord Carter's Digital Britain Report, an Oxford survey shows that one of the main challenges will be to change the perceptions of the third of the British population who choose not to use the ...


Many interested in broadband stimulus funds

Technology / Telecom

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- "Cash for Clunkers" isn't the only economic stimulus program to attract a lot of takers.


FCC gets going on national broadband plan

Technology / Telecom

created Apr 08, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 2

(AP) -- The Federal Communications Commission took the first step Wednesday in developing a comprehensive plan to give all Americans high-speed Internet access.


Frontier to buy rural Verizon lines for $5.3B

Technology / Telecom

created May 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Verizon Communications Inc. said Wednesday it reached a deal to sell scattered phone service areas outside its main Northeastern and Californian territories for $5.3 billion in stock.


As Google, AT&T feud simmers, a partnership waits in the wings

Technology / Internet

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

It's not often that phone sex lines and Benedictine nuns enter into debates on telecommunications industry regulation, but AT&T Inc. and Google Inc. are making it happen.


A picture taken in March 2009 in Paris shows the screen of a computer showing a web site of downloading contents

File sharing drops in Sweden after govt crackdown

Technology / Internet

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (7) | comments 7

More than 40 percent of Swedes engage in illegal file sharing, but recording industry officials have noted a sharp drop since a government crackdown earlier this year, they said Monday.


Scientist Leonard Kleinrock poses with the first Interface Message Processor

Internet turns 40 with birthday bash

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created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Technology and media stars, pundits and entrepreneurs joined the Internet's father to celebrate the 40th anniversary of his culture-changing child.



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