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Microsoft Building One-Mile Wi-Fi

Chris Dannen — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:58:41 -0400

Despite protestations from the Bush administration, the FCC succeeded last year in making a certain chunk of the nation's TV and radio spectrum--dubbed "white space"--available to unlicensed broadcasters. That meant that companies could begin developing super Wi-Fi devices that create networks at a distance of miles, instead of the 50+ feet we're used to today. The dream, nationwide wireless Internet access, was within reach.

Affiliate Programs Offer Cambridge Who’s Who Members Added Benefits

Cambridge Who's Who — Wed, 13 May 2009 12:26:51 -0400

Cambridge Who's Who Affiliate Programs offers Cambridge members added benefits via relationships
we have cultivated with a variety of well-known companies. We are offering
these expanded benefits as a means to help our more than 500,000 members find

Which Senators Are Fighting Broadband Funding?

Chris Dannen — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 12:23:10 -0500

As the President's stimulus package approaches $1 trillion, the Senate is looking to cut the fat. In the senators' sights: about $6 billion in funding for expanded broadband access, much of it for wireless access in rural areas, among $90 billion of total cuts (as of Thursday night).

Depending on your political allegiances, here are the people to whom you can direct your letters of fury, or your calls of thanks, for trying to cut out Internet access as a priority in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Bush Condemns Free National Wi-Fi

Chris Dannen — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:07:55 -0500

In another nod to his alleged "free-market" principles, President Bush has expressed disapproval of the free nationwide Wi-Fi proposal being considered by the FCC and Congress.